Shutdown hits national security employees across government

[pangaia]

Shutdown hits national security employees across government

YAHOO NEWS- Jenna McLaughlin and Sean D. Naylor

Federal employees reaching out for help paying bills include----

"........ FBI officials; employees at the departments of State, Justice Department and Homeland Security; temporary workers from various agencies; and other national security officials.

"It’s very obvious that it’s having a huge impact,” said Feldman-Piltch during a phone interview with Yahoo News. “The connective tissue part, the parts established after 9/11 to prevent stovepiping [blockages preventing information-sharing between agencies] … those are the parts falling first.”

"Some of the areas most heavily hit are those working on cybersecurity issues and counterintelligence. The FBI has already lost some of its senior cybersecurity officials in recent months, and now that the shutdown is hitting pay, the bureau is “hemorrhaging” talent, said one former official. “Everyone with anything cyber in their resume is getting out,” the second former official said. Given the FBI’s major role in monitoring cybercrime and foreign meddling in domestic affairs online, the absence is sorely felt."

One of the agencies most heavily affected is the FBI, where large numbers of employees are either furloughed or being required to work without pay.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/shutdown-hits-national-security-employees-across-government-215038180.html

[UpInArms]

1. Destroying the US ... QUID pro Quo to Putin

eom

[hedda_foil]

2. I don't think even Putin in his wildest dreams could have imagined this much destruction

[pangaia]

4. I'm not so sure. And it will get a lot worse...

[hedda_foil]

6. Unfortunately I completely agree that it will get much worse.

I still have a sliver of hope that America survives as a democracy... but it's a very small sliver

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. time to arrest the unregistered foreign agent(s) in our White House

[pangaia]

5. Who will arrest him?

[2naSalit]

9. There's an answer to this question

to which do not know the answer but now I have to spend a few looking around now that you mentioned.

[pangaia]

10. ha ha. sORRY TO CAUSE YOU SO MUCH TROUBLE.

oopps caps locker

[2naSalit]

13. Didn't have to look far...

In an ideal democracy, I think the Attorney General even though appointed by the president has the singular responsibility to arrest the president upon a provable and heinous wrong doing. The Attorney General can instruct the police chief to withdraw the security details ( including the secret service) if a president refuses to relinquish power or ask the very Secret Service to arrest him. A president is as powerful as the security details and loyal foot soldiers around him. Once he losses the protection of the immediate security apparatus around him, he is just as powerless as any ordinary citizen . Take Housni Mubarak former president of Egypt as case study. It only took very few hours of loss of protection from El Sisi (Egypt former army chief) for Munarak to surrender to arrest despite weeks of uprising and government shutdown

https://www.quora.com/Who-has-the-power-to-arrest-the-president

Could be more than this, I would imagine, but he a citizen after all and allegedly not above the law.

[pangaia]

14. Thanks for doing the research.

next question.
Do you think ANY republican AG will order his arrest?

[2naSalit]

15. Nope...

they are appointed to prevent that very thing from happening to this occupier.

[bdamomma]

7. this was their plan

to take down the government. tRump is taking down the government for putin, miller, jared and to hell with the American people, Call your senators and reps do not remain silent not now. This means war.

[2naSalit]

8. +10000000000000000!!!!!

[shanti]

11. Maddow talked about this at length last night

"We're out of tires" was the meme. We are so vulnerable now. Chump is literally allowing all manner of bad actors to interfere with our country because of his stunt. It's frightening.

[pangaia]

12. It is the GOP that is the villan!!

Shout it everywhere.

The GOP IS BRINGING DOWN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY !!!!!