pacino wrote:You hold out more hope than I as far as investigations go; I hope I am wrong. I honestly, truly do.

swishnicholson wrote:But aren't we all actually glad the information that was leaked came out?

06hawkalum wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

06hawkalum wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Only not extending Obama's political appointee ambassadors, not recalling career foreign service ambassadors or other diplomats

Still its dumb, and you know it's dumb, and most Republican leaders know its dumb but most will either support this, even if only by simply remaining silent.

It's not dumb. Obama's domestic political appointees are all out as of Jan 20, so should his foreign appointees. The complaints seem to almost entirely focus on ambassadors with school age children having their school years interrupted. Trump should extend the term of Obama political appointees so they don't have to find a house to rent in their countries so their kids can finish the school year? GTFO

Yet I am sure that you are perfectly fine with our First Mail Order Lady and little prince staying in the NYC WH so that he can finish up the school year in his ultra exclusive prep school. To the winner goes the spoils right?

I would rather they moved to save the money, but the situations aren't the same.

These are political appointees. Their jobs end when Obama's term ends unless the next administration wants to keep them on. I don't really think Trump should feel the need to keep Obama bundlers on in ambassadorial roles because they have kids in school in those countries. Rent a house for the remainder of the school year if staying in country that important to you.

Why the need to break with tradition?

In Costa Rica, Ambassador Stafford Fitzgerald Haney is hunting for a house or an apartment as his family — which includes four school-age children and his wife, who has been battling breast cancer — struggles to figure out how to avoid a move back to the United States with five months left in the school year, according to the diplomats.

In the Czech Republic, they said, Ambassador Andrew H. Schapiro is seeking housing in Prague as well as lobbying his children’s Chicago-based school to break with policy and accept them back midyear. In Brussels and Geneva, Denise Bauer, the United States ambassador to Belgium, and Pamela Hamamoto, the permanent representative to the United Nations, are both trying to find a way to keep daughters from having to move just months before their high school graduation.

@realDonaldTrump
While Putin is scheming and beaming on how to take over the World, President Obama is watching March Madness (basketball)!

8:14 PM - 20 Mar 2014

Youseff wrote:

@realDonaldTrump
While Putin is scheming and beaming on how to take over the World, President Obama is watching March Madness (basketball)!

8:14 PM - 20 Mar 2014

UPDATE: The Trump transition team emailed me this statement: “We are ahead of schedule with assembling the most qualified cabinet and administration in history. Any implication contrary to that is completely false and from sources who do not have any knowledge of our transition efforts.”

pacino wrote:Trump doesn't realize what he picked in Mattis.

Youseff wrote:

@realDonaldTrump
While Putin is scheming and beaming on how to take over the World, President Obama is watching March Madness (basketball)!

8:14 PM - 20 Mar 2014

thephan wrote:There is an article in the WaPo about Mattis clashing with the transition team around his staff. Team Trump is putting up candidates, and Maddawg is swatting them down. Essentially he wants people loyal to him, and not back channeling to a political benefactor. Did not seem to like a billionaire running his army w/o his agreement. The gold however is at the bottom of the article, and below.

UPDATE: The Trump transition team emailed me this statement: “We are ahead of schedule with assembling the most qualified cabinet and administration in history. Any implication contrary to that is completely false and from sources who do not have any knowledge of our transition efforts.”

Is TT required to communicate like the boss?

-> Tangentially, I saw Kellyanne from NJ losing her sh*t this morning about Trump and Russia. I am not sure if she is just in her crazy pants mode, or if this is getting to her, but she was like an angry dog that hit the end of its leash. Her message is that the Bromance is 100% made up by the media. Russia is afraid of a strong leader like The Don, much more then they were of Hillary.

swishnicholson wrote:But aren't we all actually glad the information that was leaked came out?

@wikileaks
The Obama admin/CIA is illegally funneling TOP SECRET//COMINT information to NBC for political reasons before PEOTUS even gets to read it.

@WLTaskForce
We are thinking of making an online database with all "verified" twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships.

pacino wrote:It's a weird (not weird, completely expected) thing to see the same people that were very upset about the server and its possible implications now not caring at all about actual hacks and demanding classified verification be provided as proof of it.