Well, this makes less than no sense. Why would they get rid of a Russian expert? Isn’t that something we need for all the shizzle Putin is doing? All that knowledge has been thrown out the door. She was their top expert, due to move to a prestigious position, and now her security clearance has been revoked and her career is over. At the snap of a finger, her life has changed for the worse. From The Washington Post:
In the days leading up to President Donald Trump’s Aug. 15 Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, one of the CIA’s senior-most Russia experts worked grueling hours, helping Trump and his team prepare. Four days later, the CIA officer — whom The Washington Post is not naming for her protection — was at work at the spy agency’s Langley headquarters when she was abruptly ordered to report to the security office. She was informed that her clearance to look at classified material was being stripped. In a span of minutes, her 29-year career in public service was essentially over.
Boom. So long, have a good day. Done. Finished. What does she do now? If she were fired like that, I’d bet she couldn’t take anything with her. I hope she gets to clean out her desk. And back to the subject, apparently, she wasn’t given any sort of reason. The hammer just … fell. And I have more interesting quotes for you.
The ax has fallen on spy agency personnel with decades of experience dealing with Russia and Ukraine, potentially depriving the Trump administration of expertise as it conducts high-stakes diplomacy with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to try to end the conflict that began with Russia’s February 2022 invasion, former U.S. officials said. The forced ousters have cut across priority issues on the U.S. national security agenda.
Wow. Hamstring your security people just because you want to, because they did some imaginary thing wrong. That’s backwards. They should be trying to *keep* these people, not throw them away. What is going on with Trump and Gabbard? Revenge for something small and petty?
Early in Trump’s administration, experienced officers who had taken temporary stints involving diversity programs were fired. The ax has fallen on spy agency personnel with decades of experience dealing with Russia and Ukraine. As they see colleagues fired, reassigned or stripped of their clearances, those who remain will be less willing to report intelligence that contains unpalatable truths or contradicts Trump’s views, the officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity out of concern that they could also be targeted. The CIA officer’s dismissal sent shock waves through the workforce. Some of the ousted CIA analyst’s former colleagues fault Ratcliffe for not protecting one of his own.
Seems she had a stellar record and really knew her stuff. But she’s gone now. I wonder what she can do next. This does not give me warm fuzzy feelings of safety. It worries me instead. A highly valued CIA operative has been shown the door. How much more are we going to lose? Who knows now? I don’t. I hope someone does.
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These people who are being fired should IMMEDIATELY call a press conference and reveal as much intel as they have that would DESTROY Drumpf and his flunkies by proving his ties to Putin because you KNOW these career employees have a ton of secrets.
And what have they got to lose? Going to jail? The secrets they reveal about Drumpf will keep them from being killed simply because (A) they’ve let the world know everything already and (B) the “coincidence” of their deaths would simply fuel the fires of truth about what they revealed. And, again, what will jail do? They would’ve already “spilled the milk” so to speak and we all know you can’t put spilled milk back in the container.
That’s an interesting thought. I wish they *would* call a press conference. It would shock the world, and El Presidente Imbécil needs to get slapped for it. And sent to jail/ We were so close, er, make that Jack Smith was so close to, showing the PROOF that he caused the insurrection and would have FOUND HIM GUILTY. But now he’s the damn president again, and we are screwed. Good gods, I wish we could take him down.
Your thoughts about the reaction to the press conference. If I can find enough material, I might do a column on it/ Thanks for the comment!