A Pentagon Purge (bound to fail)

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Nov 11 05:33:16 UTC 2020


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/defeated-trump-purges-top-pentagon-intel-officials-and-installs-loyalists

Mark Esper was just the start. Days after President Trump lost the 2020
election, and hours after the ouster
<https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/defense-secretary-mark-esper-has-been-terminated-trump-says-in-tweet>
of
the defense secretary that had been long in his crosshairs, several other
officials in top Pentagon and Intelligence Community roles have been
canned. Their replacements all have a reputation for being Trump loyalists.
Two of them worked for Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) before joining the
administration and a third has also been linked to Nunes’ efforts to
politicize intelligence to further Trump’s false claims about the “Deep
State.”


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