Defense Department accused of undermining Trump
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), in a scathing letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, slammed "partisans and obstructionists" at the Department of Defense who are already plotting ways to thwart the incoming president's agenda.
Cotton was responding to reports that officials within the United States government are conspiring against President-elect Donald Trump to undermine decisions he finds warranted in furthering the interests of this nation.
Like mass deportations or firing underperforming officials.
"It appears that partisans and obstructionists inside the Department of Defense are laying groundwork to defy or circumvent President Trump’s plans for both military and civil-service reform," Cotton wrote. "These actions undermine civilian control of the military and our constitutional structure of government."
As RedState previously reported, the crux of these rogue officials' concerns involves stated intentions by Trump to make a national emergency declaration to repurpose assets from the Pentagon to detain and deport illegal immigrants.
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Cotton, in his letter, also took direct aim at Austin, claiming: "You also issued a message to the department the day after the election commenting that the military will follow 'lawful orders' from the new president—a thinly veiled and baseless insinuation that President Trump will issue unlawful orders."
The Republican Senator asserts that the DOD's actions in preparing for Trump by angling his agenda as "unlawful" is proof that the entire department is badly in need of a fundamental overhaul.
"And, of course, while inappropriate and annoying, these tactics are also useless because no action by the outgoing administration can limit the incoming president’s constitutional authority as commander-in-chief," Cotton concludes.
"Please, therefore, knock off this nonsense and get on with the business of handing over the reins to the next administration."
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What should be deemed unlawful is the previous administration's attempt to ignore US immigration laws and allow illegals to flood into the country and wasting billions of dollars on them. Trump should be allowed to remove an invasion of illegals into the country. To say otherwise makes no sense.
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Donald Trump’s transition team is planning for all political appointees to receive sweeping security clearances on the first day and only face FBI background checks after the incoming administration takes over the bureau and its own officials are installed in key positions, according to people familiar with the matter.
The move appears to mean that Trump’s team will continue to skirt FBI vetting and may not receive classified briefings until Trump is sworn in on 20 January and unilaterally grant sweeping security clearances across the administration.
Trump’s team has regarded the FBI background check process with contempt for months, a product of their deep distrust of the bureau ever since officials turned over transition records to the Russia investigation during the first Trump presidency, the people said.
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