WH lawyer to oversee pandemic relief, Trump loyalist to head DNI

[Cuddles]

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/495359-gop-prepares-to-hit-the-gas-on-trump-nominees
GOP prepares to hit the gas on Trump nominees

The Senate Banking Committee has formally scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, when they’ll hold a nomination hearing for Brian Miller, the White House lawyer tapped to serve as the watchdog for the pandemic recovery. Meanwhile, the Senate Intelligence Committee is preparing for a hearing next week on Rep. John Ratcliffe’s (R-Texas) nomination to be Trump’s next director of national intelligence, a source familiar confirmed to The Hill.

The American Bar Association rated Walker, who was confirmed late last year to be a district judge in Kentucky, “not qualified,” citing his lack of “requisite trial or litigation experience.” Ratcliffe, meanwhile, withdrew his name from consideration for the intelligence job last year, when Trump initially planned to nominate him, amid scrutiny that he padded his resume.

 

[Snarkhund]

Trial experience not necessary for DNI. Producing PowerPoint briefings that aggregate intelligence and supply coherent analysis requires geopolitical knowledge, intelligence apparatus knowledge and excellent written expression skills. A former D-CIA or Deputy could do the job nicely. Staff attorneys are the one who assess legality anyway.

I don't necessarily understand every staff decision made by the WH as I do not know all the considerations and neither do you. I am occasionally confounded by staffing decisions that don't make sense based on the limited public information available. I have faith in the President however and believe he is far more qualified to make those choices than I am and that he has relevant information that is not in the public domain some of which is the personal information of the nominee.

Given your dubious relationship with the truth I'm rather sure your resume contains some complete horse shit as well. I have ended interviews minutes in when it was clear that inconsistencies were going to make it hard to verify professional experience. A bit harsh but if you cannot be honest about your own CV its going to be difficult to trust you with firm assets.

 

[El OchoCinco]

Trial experience not necessary for DNI. Producing PowerPoint briefings that aggregate intelligence and supply coherent analysis requires geopolitical knowledge, intelligence apparatus knowledge and excellent written expression skills. A former D-CIA or Deputy could do the job nicely. Staff attorneys are the one who assess legality anyway.

I don't necessarily understand every staff decision made by the WH as I do not know all the considerations and neither do you. I am occasionally confounded by staffing decisions that don't make sense based on the limited public information available. I have faith in the President however and believe he is far more qualified to make those choices than I am and that he has relevant information that is not in the public domain some of which is the personal information of the nominee.

Given your dubious relationship with the truth I'm rather sure your resume contains some complete horse shit as well. I have ended interviews minutes in when it was clear that inconsistencies were going to make it hard to verify professional experience. A bit harsh but if you cannot be honest about your own CV its going to be difficult to trust you with firm assets.

the trial experience quote was in reference to a person nominated for a judge position, not for DNI.

 

[Cuddles]

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opini...i-nominee-follows-qanon-twitter-s-ncna1200726
John Ratcliffe, Trump's DNI nominee, follows QAnon Twitter. That's disqualifying.
Our nation needs an honest broker in the intelligence role, not a highly partisan conspiracy monger who would preside over the further dismantling of our intelligence community.