Trump fires intelligence community inspector general who defied him on Ukraine

[camille70]

President Donald Trump has fired the intelligence community’s chief watchdog, Michael Atkinson, who was the first to sound the alarm to Congress last September about an “urgent” complaint he’d received from an intelligence official involving Trump’s communications with Ukraine’s president.

Trump formally notified the Senate and House intelligence committees of his intention to fire Atkinson and remove him from his duties, to take effect 30 days from Friday, according to two congressional officials and a copy of the letter obtained by POLITICO dated April 3.

“This is to advise that I am exercising my power as President to remove from office the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, effective 30 days from today,” Trump wrote.

Trump said in the letter that he “no longer” has the fullest confidence in Atkinson.


Trump fires intelligence community inspector general who defied him on Ukraine

 

[Hank77]

Should anyone be surprised? I'm not.

 

[SimplyMe]

This is what Trump does, he demands "loyalty" -- which should be interpreted as boot-licking "Yes man" -- and gets rid of anyone that is not "loyal" in that way.

 

[Tanj]

Another job for Jared.

 

[SeventyOne]

And that's newsworthy how?

 

[childeye 2]

And that's newsworthy how?

It informs the public.

 

[SeventyOne]

It informs the public.

Lots of things that would inform the public isn't reported in the news.

 

[grasping the after wind]

President Donald Trump has fired the intelligence community’s chief watchdog, Michael Atkinson, who was the first to sound the alarm to Congress last September about an “urgent” complaint he’d received from an intelligence official involving Trump’s communications with Ukraine’s president.

Trump formally notified the Senate and House intelligence committees of his intention to fire Atkinson and remove him from his duties, to take effect 30 days from Friday, according to two congressional officials and a copy of the letter obtained by POLITICO dated April 3.

“This is to advise that I am exercising my power as President to remove from office the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, effective 30 days from today,” Trump wrote.

Trump said in the letter that he “no longer” has the fullest confidence in Atkinson.


Trump fires intelligence community inspector general who defied him on Ukraine

About time.

 

[childeye 2]

Lots of things that would inform the public isn't reported in the news.

It's rather significant since this happens to be the official responsible for reporting the wrongdoings of the President to congress.

 

[SeventyOne]

It's rather significant since this happens to be the official responsible for reporting the wrongdoings of the President to congress.

You mean a man responsible for reporting lying accusations about his boss. He should have been gone long ago and in disgrace.

 

[grasping the after wind]

This is what Trump does, he demands "loyalty" -- which should be interpreted as boot-licking "Yes man" -- and gets rid of anyone that is not "loyal" in that way.

I think there might be a degree of difference between bootlicking and refraining from backstabbing. If I was looking for a degree of loyalty, I would expect no bootlicking and be content with no backstabbing.

 

[childeye 2]

You mean a man responsible for reporting lying accusations about his boss. He should have been gone long ago and in disgrace.

Lying accusations? Such as saying Trump was withholding the Ukrainian military aid unless Ukraine conducted investigations into crowd strike, the DNC and Joe Biden? What's untrue about that?

 

[grasping the after wind]

Lying accusations? Such as saying Trump was withholding the Ukrainian military aid unless Ukraine conducted investigations into crowd strike, the DNC and Joe Biden? What's untrue about that?

All of it.

 

[SeventyOne]

Lying accusations? Such as saying Trump was withholding the Ukrainian military aid unless Ukraine conducted investigations into crowd strike, the DNC and Joe Biden? What's untrue about that?

All of it.

 

[childeye 2]

All of it.

That's not what the testimony showed.

 

[childeye 2]

All of it.

That's not what the testimony showed.

 

[SeventyOne]

That's not what the testimony showed.

It is what the facts showed, however. It was all a show.

 

[childeye 2]

It is what the facts showed, however. It was all a show.

All the facts showed he did it. So I guess you could call it a show.

 

[SeventyOne]

Yes the facts showed he did it. So I guess you could call it a show.

I'll bet 'hard to fool' were never words used to describe you.

 

[childeye 2]

I'll bet 'hard to fool' were never words used to describe you.

I'm not fool enough to not know why an ad hominem attack is a logical fallacy.