Another official is ousted from the Pentagon
By Eric Schmitt and Adam Goldman New York Times,Updated December 1, 2020, 4:07 p.m.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon policy official overseeing the military’s efforts to combat the Islamic State was fired Monday after a White House appointee told him the United States had won that war and that his office had been disbanded, according to three people briefed on the matter.
The ouster of Christopher P. Maier, the head of the Pentagon’s Defeat ISIS Task Force since March 2017, came just three weeks after President Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper and three other Pentagon officials, and replaced them with loyalists.
In a statement late Monday, the Pentagon said that Acting Defense Secretary Christopher C. Miller had accepted Maier’s resignation and that his duties would be folded into two other offices that deal with special operations and regional policies. Those offices are led by Ezra Cohen-Watnick and Anthony J. Tata, two of the Trump appointees who have been promoted in the recent purge.
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