Trump names hand-picked panel to supervise, investigate intelligence community
The White House announced five appointments to the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board on Tuesday evening, after selecting a chairman and vice chairwoman earlier this year.
The dormant board created by former President Dwight Eisenhower has no formal powers, but derives significant authority directly from the president, operating as his surrogate to smooth over agency rivalries, investigate misconduct, and evaluate intelligence collection policies.
Experts say Trump could roil the intelligence community by asking his hand-picked panel to draft reports, for example, on alleged surveillance abuses against his 2016 campaign associates, a disputed charge made by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, who are poised to lose subpoena powers.
"The board can do whatever the hell the president wants it to do, and really it’s about what the president tasks it with," said University of Notre Dame professor Michael Desch, co-author of the authoritative 2012 history of the board, Privileged and Confidential: The Secret History of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
"If you really had an agenda and were willing to pick reliable people that are also people that are smart and knew enough to be dangerous, you could make life miserable for the intelligence agencies through the board," Desch said. "If the president were really a competent political warrior, there would be a way to constitute the board in which it could really serve as a gadfly or a prod to the intelligence community, because it has a lot of access … if the president were willing to task it in a serious investigative way and then follow up, the board could be quite useful. But I don't see President Trump being that serious and that bureaucratically savvy."
New appointees to the board include Oracle CEO Safra Ada Catz; former Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.; former White House economic adviser Jeremy Katz; Goldman Sachs managing director and University of Virginia adjunct law professor James Donovan; former CIA and FBI counterterrorism official Kevin E. Hulbert; and a New Jersey resident named David Robertson.
The new members join board chairman Stephen Feinberg, a billionaire hedge fund manager and military contractor appointed by Trump in May, and vice-chairwoman Samantha Ravich, appointed in August. The board historically has had a small staff and office space in the New Executive Office Building near the White House. Members have security clearances and generally meet quarterly.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/trump-names-hand-picked-panel-to-supervise-investigate-intelligence-community
As a CalifFag, I feel your pain, Canuckanon.
Suspect DECLAS brings down not only our House but the House of Cards worldwide.
That said, have a Pepe and come on over..
Drive safely everyone.
Roads are slick.
Rain is helping the smoke, hopefully help put out the fires.
The Silence From Feminists About Female Genital Mutilation Has Been Deafening
Elizabeth Yore, an international child protection attorney, spoke on Wednesday to host Alex Marlow of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily, highlighting the silence of feminists — and feminism’s prioritization of “diversity” — on the issue of female genital mutilation (FGM).
“The silence from feminists has been deafening on this issue,” said Yore. “We need the support of feminists who believe in the rights of women to enjoy sexual pleasure. Well, these little girls have been robbed of that for the rest of their lives.”
Yore added, “We’re supposed to be feminists, right? We’re supposed to protect women and girls. Why are they silent? Why are they staying on the sidelines? Because there is a greater ideology that they want to protect. This greater ideology is diversity. Then, in fact, they’re not truly feminists. They don’t care about protecting girls and women.”
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/11/21/elizabeth-yore-on-fgm-silence-from-feminists-has-been-deafening-on-this-issue/
For anons who don't know, they cut off the girl's clitoris among other things.
Both are bad.
HOWEVER
Circumcision does not cut off the male penis.
More accurate comparison to circumcision would be cutting off the clitoral hood and leaving the clitoris.
got some duplicates in there baker, thanks