Trump says Rex Tillerson out as Secretary of State, replaced by Mike Pompeo

[nikcers]

Oh yeah, because the Koreans need another revolution...

"I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators."

 

[Firestarter]

Another one fired for a distraction?!?

And who is Gina Haspel?

Trump has named Gina Haspel as the new director of the CIA. Haspel was Pompeo’s deputy and will become the first woman to serve as CIA director.

From 2003 to 2005, Gina Haspel was a senior official overseeing the top-secret CIA torture program RDI (Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation) that included waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and squeezing into coffins of terror suspects. RDI also kidnapped suspects and delivered them to third-party countries to do the dirty work.

In 2002, Haspel was present at a CIA black site in Thailand when Abu Zubaydah and al-Nashiri were tortured. The torture of Zubaydah was especially horrible and included waterboarding 83 times. At one time he appeared to be dead and doctors “revived” him. Because of the brutal abuse, Zubaydah lost sight in his left eye.
In 2005, Haspel and her superior Jose Rodriguez decided to destroy the videotapes of the interrogations of Zubaydah and al-Nashiri to prevent Congress from seeing them.

In 2009, President Obama ordered the closure of the black sites, where torture (in violation with the Geneva convention) was common: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-new-c-i-a-deputy-chiefs-black-site-past

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Chatter about everyone in WH who complians about son-in-law Kushner getting fired seems to be exaggerated. And to be fair, Tillerson was not as supportive of Kushner and Netanyahu's foreign policies as he could have been. Nikki Haley OTOH is doing a stellar job, she's a keeper.



Tillerson, Kelly Reportedly Frustrated With Jared Kushner Running U.S. Foreign Policy

Politico reports that John Kelly has repeated Rex Tillerson's complaints, which were not take well by Kushner

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and White House chief of staff John Kelly are reportedly frustrated with Jared Kushner's trespassing into Tillerson's turf, according to Politico.
Tillerson has long been rumored to be upset with Kushner for “running a second foreign policy,” especially when it comes to the Middle East and Israel. Kushner does have an officially portfolio which includes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mexico and China.
Tillerson also reportedly expressed frustration about U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and national security adviser H.R. McMaster encroachment on his position.
“We can’t have four secretaries of state,” Tillerson said.
Politico added that Kelly has repeated Tillerson's complaints, which reportedly have not been taken well by Kushner.

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/tillerson-kelly-reportedly-frustrated-with-jared-kushner-1.5863319


Is Trump's Son-in-law Destabilizing the Middle East? Rex Tillerson Thinks Jared Kushner Is a Threat to Peace

By Tom Porter On 12/2/17
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is concerned that negotiations being held between Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman could tip the Middle East into chaos, Bloomberg reported.
Tillerson, according to Bloomberg's sources, says that 36-year-old former real estate executive​ Kushner has left the State Department and key U.S. diplomats in the dark about the content of the negotiations.

http://www.newsweek.com/rex-tillers...ddle-east-peace-talks-could-tip-region-729335

Trump always surrounds himself with best of the best, but in return why can't the best of the best show strong loyalty to him?

Related


Kushner family solicited Qatari investment just before blockade: report

By Brandon Carter - 03/02/18
White House senior adviser and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s family real estate company sought an investment from the government of Qatar just weeks before a Middle Eastern blockade against the country, according to a Thursday report.

Two sources told The Intercept that Kushner’s father, Charles, met with Qatar’s Finance Minister Ali Sharif al-Emadi in New York in April to seek an investment from the Qatari government for the Kushner Companies’ 666 Fifth Ave. property.
The two men and their aides met for 30 minutes, according to the report, and a second meeting was held the next day at the Fifth Avenue location. Al-Emadi didn’t personally attend the second meeting, and the deal was never completed.
The Fifth Avenue building is a flagship of the Kushner family’s real estate business and has been the nexus for conflict-of-interest questions surrounding Kushner and his role in Trump’s White House.
Kushner Companies bought the property for $1.8 billion in 2007. Before resigning his role at the company to join the Trump administration, Kushner introduced a $7.5 billion plan to redevelop the skyscraper and reportedly pursued foreign investment in the project to pay down its massive debts, which were recently reported to equal $1.448 billion.

http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...y-solicited-qatari-government-investment-just

 

[AuH20]

I smell Hebrews.

 

[shakey1]

Another one fired for a distraction?!?


Trump has named Gina Haspel as the new director of the CIA. Haspel was Pompeo’s deputy and will become the first woman to serve as CIA director.

From 2003 to 2005, Gina Haspel was a senior official overseeing the top-secret CIA torture program RDI (Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation) that included waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and squeezing into coffins of terror suspects. RDI also kidnapped suspects and delivered them to third-party countries to do the dirty work.

In 2002, Haspel was present at a CIA black site in Thailand when Abu Zubaydah and al-Nashiri were tortured. The torture of Zubaydah was especially horrible and included waterboarding 83 times. At one time he appeared to be dead and doctors “revived” him. Because of the brutal abuse, Zubaydah lost sight in his left eye.
In 2005, Haspel and her superior Jose Rodriguez decided to destroy the videotapes of the interrogations of Zubaydah and al-Nashiri to prevent Congress from seeing them.

In 2009, President Obama ordered the closure of the black sites, where torture (in violation with the Geneva convention) was common: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-new-c-i-a-deputy-chiefs-black-site-past

She sounds like a real sweetheart.

 

[goldenequity]

....comes a day after Tillerson directly attributed blame of the nerve agent attack to Russia.
Sec State under Trump = worst job evaaaaa.

supposedly...
Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound
Tillerson was told he was out on Friday.
He spoke up for Britain on Russia because he thought it was the right thing to do.
He spoke because he'd been fired,
he wasn't fired because he spoke.

so...
So the Secretary of State only spoke up for US closest ally against Russia,
because he already knew he was being fired??? wtf?

and btw...
In 2017 there were calls for Germany's Public Prosecutor General to issue an arrest warrant
against Gina Haspel over claims she oversaw the torture.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Another one fired for a distraction?!?

Are you implying he is ditracting from such media stories and got bad advice? If so, seems quite unlikely that a seasoned sitting POTUS like him would make such huge decisions just for distraction.

Trump asking for advice on Stormy Daniels situation

By Maegan Vazquez and Pamela Brown, CNN
Tue March 13, 2018

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has been seeking counsel from confidantes on how he should handle the Stormy Daniels situation, a source close to the President tells CNN.

The source said Trump is being told by advisers not to fight Daniels' decision to break a confidentiality agreement because it would make him look guilty. This source said it's the only reason Trump has stayed quiet on the issue and hasn't been tweeting about it.

The source also believes the controversy potentially poses a bigger threat to Trump's presidency than Russia. The difference here compared to accusations from other women is that there's a signed agreement and a payment.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/politics/trump-stormy-daniels-handling/index.html

 

[Ender]

Anyone need a reminder??

https://rare.us/rare-politics/rand-paul-why-i-voted-against-the-new-cia-director/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/time-for-a-rigorous-national-debate-about-surveillance-1451856106

Oh boy- from Pompeo's article:

Congress should pass a law re-establishing collection of all metadata, and combining it with publicly available financial and lifestyle information into a comprehensive, searchable database. Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed. That includes Presidential Policy Directive-28, which bestows privacy rights on foreigners and imposes burdensome requirements to justify data collection.

 

[Vieux Canard]

Trump has gone full neocon. I smell war.

 

[Ender]

....comes a day after Tillerson directly attributed blame of the nerve agent attack to Russia.
Sec State under Trump = worst job evaaaaa.

supposedly...
Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound
Tillerson was told he was out on Friday.
He spoke up for Britain on Russia because he thought it was the right thing to do.
He spoke because he'd been fired,
he wasn't fired because he spoke.

so...
So the Secretary of State only spoke up for US closest ally against Russia,
because he already knew he was being fired??? wtf?

Hmmmm....

I just read that Tillerson was never told he was fired- just found out about it when the public did.

Sort of the Trump kingly way of getting rid of staff members.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Tillerson recently publically contradicted Trump on the greatesness of Trump's agreement to meet with Kim Jong Un. Probably what sparked it.

Pompeo? Another MIC/neocon advocate.

 

[AuH20]

Kushner is likely Trump's handler. He has no experience whatsoever and he's overseeing foreign policy agreements?

 

[goldenequity]

Trump has gone full neocon. I smell war.

Islamic World Update
Moscow: Russia will respond if the United States launches missile strikes against #Syria

Brasco_Aad
RUSSIA WILL ENGAGE THE UNITED STATES IF THE LATTER DECIDES TO LAUNCH AN ATTACK ON SYRIA

Brasco_Aad
RUSSIA: IN CASE OF SUCH AN ATTACK WE WILL DESTROY BOTH MISSILES AND LAUNCHERS (JETS, WARSHIPS)

Russia to Respond if its Military Threatened by Possible US Strike in Syria
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201803131062469487-russia-syria-us-military/

Brasco_Aad
RUSSIAN FM SERGEY LAVROV: CONSEQUENCES OF POSSIBLE US STRIKE ON DAMASCUS WILL BE DRASTIC

13:20
ANOTHER POSSIBLE U.S. STRIKE ON SYRIA FRAUGHT WITH MOST SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES FOR U.S. - LAVROV

13:20
LAVROV: U.S. COVERING UP FOR TERRORISTS IN EASTERN GHOUTA SO THEY CAN STRIKE DAMASCUS

13:19
LAVROV: I LACK PROPER TERMS TO DESCRIBE U.S. THREATS TO STRIKE SYRIA

13:19
U.S. HAS TAKEN COURSE TOWARD REGIME CHANGE IN SYRIA, ITS BREAKUP - LAVROV

13:18
LAVROV: NEW U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON E. GHOUTA MEANS WASHINGTON HAS FAILED TO FULFILL PREVIOUS ONE

Brasco_Aad
Syrian Air Force jets are conducting massive bombing raids against US backed terrorists in Southern #Syria.

Brasco_Aad
Russia is sending more and more warships and submarines to the Mediterranean:
RFS 490 'Admiral Essen', a Admiral Grigorovich Class frigate + RFS 868 'Pytlivyy' Krivak II Class frigate + numerous Kilo class submarines.

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►Russian military personnel and advisers are present at numerous Syrian military sites and other facilities.
This clearly makes any possible US strike against Syrian targets
a direct attack against Russian personnel.
Such would then be responded to and countered according today's Russian MoD statement.

Russia 'will respond if US strikes Syria'
http://www.news.com.au/world/breaki...a/news-story/b056cc0462fc3d54c97c6369ce316d40
The head of Russia's General Staff, says Moscow will retaliate if the lives of Russian servicemen in Syria were threatened by US strikes.

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BREAKING: Russian envoy summoned in UK

BREAKING: Russia summons British Ambassador amid Skripal case

BREAKING: Police called to Parliament over 'suspicious package' for second time in 24 hours

Russia in RSA@EmbassyofRussia

FM Lavrov: "Russia has nothing to do with the alleged posioning of Skripal.
We won’t respond to UK ultimatum as it ignores @OPCW procedures and London's own international obligations.
UK should've sent to Moscow a sample of the substance & shared information - they did neither.

Sky News Newsdesk
Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman says the National Security Council
will consider Russia's response over the nerve agent attack tomorrow and will not make a comment before then

 

[AuH20]

Putin may be the only hope to MAGA, if the US is this hellbent to assimilate Syria. If it's between Putin & Trump's Jews, I stand with Putin.

 

[Raginfridus]

Another one fired for a distraction?!?


Trump has named Gina Haspel as the new director of the CIA. Haspel was Pompeo’s deputy and will become the first woman to serve as CIA director.

From 2003 to 2005, Gina Haspel was a senior official overseeing the top-secret CIA torture program RDI (Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation) that included waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and squeezing into coffins of terror suspects. RDI also kidnapped suspects and delivered them to third-party countries to do the dirty work.

In 2002, Haspel was present at a CIA black site in Thailand when Abu Zubaydah and al-Nashiri were tortured. The torture of Zubaydah was especially horrible and included waterboarding 83 times. At one time he appeared to be dead and doctors “revived” him. Because of the brutal abuse, Zubaydah lost sight in his left eye.
In 2005, Haspel and her superior Jose Rodriguez decided to destroy the videotapes of the interrogations of Zubaydah and al-Nashiri to prevent Congress from seeing them.

In 2009, President Obama ordered the closure of the black sites, where torture (in violation with the Geneva convention) was common: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-new-c-i-a-deputy-chiefs-black-site-past

And just think: this chick's got a drone fleet now. She'll have no qualms bombing weddings and killing Americans... what's "collateral" when you're MAGA?

 

[Raginfridus]

Tillerson recently publically contradicted Trump on the greatesness of Trump's agreement to meet with Kim Jong Un. Probably what sparked it.

Pompeo? Another MIC/neocon advocate.

Pompeo is familiar, Gina not so much.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Pompeo is familiar, Gina not so much.

It appears she has strong leadership qualities that impress Trump. Quite historic milestone too.

Trump CIA pick Gina Haspel helped lead U.S. torture program

Dylan Stableford
March 13, 2018

In a statement, Trump called Haspel’s appointment of the CIA’s first-ever female director “a historic milestone.

”Last year, the New York Times noted that she oversaw the torture of the terrorism suspects and “later took part in an order to destroy videotapes documenting their brutal interrogations.”
Haspel, the Times said, played a “direct role” in the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition program,” in which “captured militants were handed to foreign governments and held at secret facilities, where they were tortured by agency personnel.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-cia-pick-gina-haspel-helped-lead-u-s-torture-program-164726899.html

 

[goldenequity]

[MENTION=25007]zero[/MENTION]hedge
TRUMP SAYS HE, TILLERSON DISAGREED ON IRAN: BBG

(AKA: Tillerson not hawkish enough for Trump. Period.)

 

[goldenequity]

US President Donald Trump said he would take Britain's assessment that Russia was behind the attack "as fact".
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43381880


Sky News Newsdesk-@SkyNewsBreak
Russia's foreign ministry says it has lodged an official protest with the British ambassador over "groundless" spy poisoning allegations and any threats of sanctions against Russia will not be left without response

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[MENTION=25007]zero[/MENTION]hedge
Tillerson got a call on Friday night from John Kelly with a heads up on his termination

 

[undergroundrr]

Come on guys. If trump didn't put the CIA in charge of the military, he wouldn't be able to get any of his liberty agenda done. Just give him some time. I mean, isn't it better to get more neocon fp now so we can have less later? Michael Scheuer will be Secretary of State within a year.

trump has eliminated the individual mandate, lowered taxes and probably averted nuclear war with Russia. Give him some credit. I swear it's like some people would rather Hillary was president.