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http://www.newsweek.com/monica-crowley-trump-pick-nsc-plagiarized-book-cnn-540062

The Donald Trump transition team is standing by conservative commentator Monica Crowley, who the president-elect has selected for an administration role, amid an investigation that claims she plagiarized much of her 2012 book, What the (Bleep) Just Happened.

The transition team labeled an investigation by CNN that details up to 50 examples of plagiarism in the book a "politically motivated attack" on Crowley "that seeks to distract from the real issues facing this country." Crowley, a columnist, radio host and former Fox News contributor, has been tapped to serve as senior director of strategic communications for the National Security Council.

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https://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/trump-apparently-didnt-realize-steve-bannon-will-need-senate-confirmation-security-council/1282/

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Donald Trump didn’t realize Steve Bannon needs Senate confirmation for National Security Council

By Bill Palmer | January 30, 2017

When Donald Trump decided that fake-news publisher and alt-right nazi Steve Bannon would be his White House Chief Strategist, he presumably chose that role so that the overwhelmingly controversial Bannon wouldn’t have to go through Senate confirmation hearings, which would have been a firestorm for the ages. But now that Trump has subsequently also picked Bannon for the National Security Council, it turns out he’ll be unwittingly feeding Bannon to the Senate wolves after all.

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According to section (a)(6) of federal statute 50 U.S. Code 3021, a civilian like Steve Bannon will in fact need to go through Senate confirmation and approval in order to serve on the National Security Council because he doesn’t fit into any of the five listed pre-approved categories. That obscure law, which has remained obscure because no president has ever tried to put a political hack on the NSC until now, was dug up by MSNBC analyst Jonathan Alter late on Monday night. This sets up a remarkable showdown if Trump goes ahead with the Bannon pick, because few in either party have shown any affinity or trust for the guy – and they’ll have limitless material for embarrassing him.

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If Bannon goes through a Senate confirmation, it will give Senators the opportunity to grill him about his former role running fake-news white nationalist site Breitbart, and the chance to hammer him about the allegations that he beat his wife. And it will pull back the curtain on the mysterious Bannon, who is believed to be acting as de facto president in the Trump administration. If all 48 Democrats vote against him, it will require just three Republicans to do the same. Considering just how deeply Bannon is distrusted, along with the strong belief that he should not be taking the place of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the NSC, it’s likely that Bannon will be rejected by the Senate.

Trump went out of his way to make sure Steve Bannon didn’t have to go through Senate confirmation the first time around. So it’s a given that Trump simply didn’t realize Bannon would need Senate approval for the National Security Council. Now that this law has been unearthed, there’s a decent chance Bannon will be withdrawn. He would still have his role as Chief Strategist and puppet master. But it would mark yet another embarrassing body blow to Trump’s out of control administration and his pet Nazi.

I hope this has legs....

 

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I hope you assholes that voted for this asshole are happy.... there is not a more unqualified candidate than Betsy Devos for Sec of Ed, who just got confirmed.

 

History is going to look down on you folks for this vote, hell its going to look down on all of us a country....

 

That of course is assuming Devos doesnt change the History standards.

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16 hours ago, Jamie_B said:

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I hope you assholes that voted for this asshole are happy.... there is not a more unqualified candidate than Betsy Devos for Sec of Ed, who just got confirmed.

 

History is going to look down on you folks for this vote, hell its going to look down on all of us a country....

 

That of course is assuming Devos doesnt change the History standards.

I didn't vote for him, I thought he was stupid on "The Apprentice" years ago before it the celebrity route and I refused to watch that version. There are people in the business world that could rip him to shreds in terms of how he ran his businesses. 

But yeah, every hour that goes by, he continues to get more and more comical. 

 

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14 hours ago, Jamie_B said:

That's their plan. Put people in charge that are so bad that you end up being ok getting rid of the department.

 

Think you're right, it's about poisoning the well.  Same reason they keep making references to terrorist attacks that never happened.  They know it's bullshit, but tell a lie often enough..  They're not at war with terrorism or Islam, the enemy is objective truth.  Destroy facts, attack journalism, and then they can operate in the darkness in which they thrive.  Kinda like Bush deliberately mispronouncing "nuclear" only on a much larger scale.

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