Start collecting, will make an effective montage
>>9169038 On February 3, 2009, John Brennan and James Clapper illegally-commandeered the foreign surveillance tool known as THE HAMMER.”, Obama et al used for "blackmail and leverage"
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Old info important to bring to light under current circumstances
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So this was during the transition before inauguration
Trump marginalizes D.C. transition staff
The president-elect’s advisers in New York are laser-focused on picking his Cabinet, largely ignoring the policy plans being produced in D.C.
By NANCY COOK and ANDREW RESTUCCIA 12/06/2016 05:07 AM EST
People close to Trump say they expect him to rely heavily on Pence and other policy staffers once he enters the White House, freeing up Trump to stake out a broader strategic and political vision.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-divided-transition-232229
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One D.C.-based transition staffer said he gets most of his information about what’s happening with the transition from watching the comings and goings at Trump Tower on the news. “It’s pretty secretive,” the person said. “What you all know is about what I know. All the work that’s being done on personnel is literally being done out of New York, not here.”
Rick Dearborn — a former aide to Jeff Sessions — is running the transition day-to-day, but he is not a part of Trump’s core inner circle, which besides Kushner, Bannon and Pence includes Reince Priebus, Trump’s incoming chief of staff, and Kellyanne Conway, his campaign manager and pollster.
Dearborn did not respond to an interview request. A transition official would not comment on whether Dearborn spends the majority of his time in New York at Trump Tower or D.C.
Much of the big-picture policy work for the first 100 days is being led by a former aide to Sessions (R-Ala.), Stephen Miller, who splits his time between New York and D.C., according to a transition official.
Transition staff told POLITICO that communication between New York and D.C. is improving now that Pence has assumed control. Pence has made regular visits and calls to the D.C. office, and he is likely to take a leading policy role in the administration.
But as the transition team grows in size, it’s becoming harder for policy experts to get the attention of Trump’s inner-circle. Recently, the transition team has added a new layer of top advisers — more than a dozen business executives — putting even greater distance between the president-elect’s top advisers and the people making the majority of the policy suggestions.
“The executive team is doing high-profile vetting, recommendations and recruitment,” said Rep. Devin Nunes, part of the transition’s so-called executive committee. “They’re not asking what our policy is going to be on X, Y, or Z.”
Multiple people close to the transition said the best way to influence Trump’s policies is to talk to his core advisers in New York. “New York is the fun and the TV cameras, and D.C. is the people who are going into the Pentagon and Labor and Interior. It is not the glamorous end of the stick,” a GOP strategist added.
We learn so much moar by digging deeper
good find anon
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stahp being a whineyfag