White House loyalist ousts a top counterterrorism official who was briefing incoming Biden team

[Nevilledog]

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Eric Schmitt
@EricSchmittNYT
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Dec 1, 2020
Pentagon purge deepens as White House loyalist ousts a top counterterrorism official who was briefing incoming Biden team w/@adamgoldmanNYT
American soldiers patrolling near an oil production facility in Syria’s Hasakah province in October. The Pentagon has cited the success of the U.S.-led effort to crush the Islamic State in large swaths of Iraq and Syria. Others say the group remains resilient.
Another Official Is Ousted From the Pentagon
The Defense Department said Christopher Maier resigned, but his supporters say he was forced out of a job leading military efforts to combat ISIS.
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John Sipher
@john_sipher
Clowns
1:29 PM · Dec 1, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/us/politics/pentagon-firing.html

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon policy official overseeing the military’s efforts to combat the Islamic State was fired on Monday after a White House appointee told him the United States had won that war and that his office had been disbanded, according to three people briefed on the matter.

The ouster of the official, Christopher P. Maier, the head of the Pentagon’s Defeat ISIS Task Force since March 2017, came just three weeks after President Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper and three other Pentagon officials, and replaced them with loyalists.

In a statement late Monday, the Pentagon said that Acting Defense Secretary Christopher C. Miller had accepted Mr. Maier’s resignation and that his duties would be folded into two other offices that deal with special operations and regional policies. Those offices are led by Ezra Cohen-Watnick and Anthony J. Tata, two of the Trump appointees who have been promoted in the recent purge.

The Pentagon statement said the transition reflected the success of the U.S.-led effort to crush the terrorist state that ISIS created in large swaths of Iraq and Syria.

But Mr. Maier’s supporters say he was summarily forced out of an important but low-profile job that required navigating the shoals of Washington’s counterterrorism bureaucracy as well as flying off to combat zones, including northeast Syria and Iraq, to work with precarious partners on the ground in the fight against the Islamic State.

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[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. You know these guys are salivating at the prospect of

an attack on US soil after Jan. 20th. So they can go "SEE? Look what the new guy did!!!"

[leftieNanner]

4. They may want one sooner than that

So they can declare martial law or something something something.

Geez.

[The Blue Flower]

2. Makes perfect sense if you want to weaken the US

Check off one more on putin's list for his puppet.

[Arne]

3. Is that not 'time of war', Is this not Treasonous.

[TeamPooka]

5. Putin is getting everything on his Christmas wish list this year.

[Nevilledog]

6. More details

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Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
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Dec 1, 2020
Key and well respected Pentagon official on counterterrorism—Chris Maier—was forced out Monday, did not resign as first reported.

Timing is highly disruptive to information sharing during presidential transition

(scoop by @EricSchmittNYT @adamgoldmanNYT)
American soldiers patrolling near an oil production facility in Syria’s Hasakah province in October. The Pentagon has cited the success of the U.S.-led effort to crush the Islamic State in large swaths of Iraq and Syria. Others say the group remains resilient.
Another Official Is Ousted From the Pentagon
The Defense Department said Christopher Maier resigned, but his supporters say he was forced out of a job leading military efforts to combat ISIS.
nytimes.com

Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
“Maier’s team ... was in the midst of answering dozens of questions from the incoming Biden team about the status of terrorist threats, relations with allies and counterterrorism missions when his team was disbanded.”
1:42 PM · Dec 1, 2020

[Cha]

7. Rt2.. they have to be held

Accountable!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. Looks like desperation: either to complete a coup or cover up