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Nigel Farage, leaving the Ecuadorian embassy in London, tells the press he can't remember why he was there.

Farage spent around 40 minutes in the [the embassy] and left at noon, accompanied by an aide.

Approached by BuzzFeed News as he left to get into a car waiting round the corner, Farage said he couldn't remember what he had been doing in the building.

Asked specifically if he had gone to the Knightsbridge building to meet with Assange, Farage said: "I never discuss where I go or who I see."

Termin8tor » 09 Mar 2017 5:16 pm » wrote:
Here's a hint, Dim. What matters is who staffs that agency and whether or not they are willing to carry out a president's directives, not undermine them.

Trumps State Dept. head is getting rid of the Establishment types, the deadwood and liberal-left munchkins who want to sabotage Trump.

#ShePersisted » 09 Mar 2017 11:54 am » wrote: Looking at someone's calling records is not the same as being 'wiretapped.'
Rosen's records were looked at in the course of an investigation involving the leak of classified info.
The same type of investigation that is now being called for by 45 himself.

#ShePersisted » 09 Mar 2017 6:21 pm » wrote:

#ShePersisted » 09 Mar 2017 6:30 pm » wrote:Why was Trump's buddy Nigel Farage visiting the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where Julian Assange happens to be holed up?

Sgt Bilko » 09 Mar 2017 6:41 pm » wrote:
How would he know if his phone was tapped??

HE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO KNOW!!!

MORE FAKE NEWS FROM MISTY!!

Sgt Bilko » 09 Mar 2017 6:49 pm » wrote:
MISTY TURNS A MODIFIED NO COMMENT INTO A CONSPIRACY!!!

#ShePersisted » 09 Mar 2017 5:44 pm » wrote:Trump supporters call for ‘liberal genocide’ and deportation of Jews at Arizona Rally

Cannonpointer » 09 Mar 2017 6:37 pm » wrote: ****, "estalishment types" are what you WANT in the state department.

If you had "idealogue types," we'd have to train up a new state department with every new administration.

You really are a stupid man, clemjob. I don't think you have half a dozen brain cells bouncing around in that hat rack of yours.

Meet the Hundreds of Officials Trump Has Quietly Installed Across the Government

While President Trump has not moved to fill many jobs that require Senate confirmation, he has quietly installed hundreds of officials to serve as his eyes and ears at every major federal agency, from the Pentagon to the Department of Interior.

Unlike appointees exposed to the scrutiny of the Senate, members of these so-called “beachhead teams” have operated largely in the shadows, with the White House declining to publicly reveal their identities.

While some names have previously dribbled out in the press, we are publishing a list of more than 400 hires, providing the most complete accounting so far of who Trump has brought into the federal government.

The Breitbart wing

Curtis Ellis was a columnist for WorldNetDaily, a website best known for its enthusiastic embrace of the false notion that President Obama was born outside the United States.

A column headlined the “The Radical Left’s Ethnic Cleansing of America” won Ellis an admiring interview with Steve Bannon, now Trump’s top aide.

He is a longtime critic of trade deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Ellis was hired Jan. 20 as a special assistant to the secretary at the Labor Department.

Asked about his role in a brief phone interview Tuesday, he said: “Nothing I can tell you.”

Jon Perdue, a self-described guerrilla warfare expert and fellow at a little-known security think tank, wrote a book called “The War of All the People: The Nexus of Latin American Radicalism and Middle Eastern Terrorism.”

He is also a onetime contributor to Breitbart.

Perdue was featured on CNBC’s reality series “Make Me a Millionaire Inventor” for his invention, the Packbow, which Perdue came up with while studying “collapsed societies, and what people who lived in those societies came up with to either defend themselves or to survive.”

It’s a bow and arrow that doubles as a compass, tent pole, walking stick, spearfishing rig, and water purification tablet receptacle.

Perdue was hired as a special assistant at the Treasury Department.

The agency didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

John Jaggers ran the Trump campaign in Maryland and Virginia, where he made headlines for endorsing the conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton was “very, very sick and they’re covering it up.”

As he put it last August: “The woman who seeks to be the first female president of the United States wears a wool coat at every single thing.

Have you ever stopped to wonder why? It’s a big deal, folks.”

Jaggers was hired Jan. 20 as senior adviser at the General Services Administration, which oversees tens of billions of dollars of government procurement every year.

But records show he left the job on March 3. He declined to comment.

Swamp denizens, including health care lobbyists hired by HHS Secretary Tom Price

Alexandra Campau, hired at the department of Health and Human Services, was formerly a lobbyist in Washington for the law firm Cozen O’Connor.

According to disclosure records, her firm’s clients included a licensee of insurance giant Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Fresenius Medical Care, a German company that specializes in medical supplies for renal dialysis.

Timothy Clark, a senior adviser to HHS Secretary Tom Price, ran his own political consulting firm in California.

His past clients included PhRMA, the powerful trade group that represents the pharmaceutical industry.

Keagan Lenihan, also a senior adviser to Price, was a director of government relations at McKesson Specialty Health, a firm that supports independent health providers.

Disclosure records show Lenihan directly lobbied HHS.

For Lenihan, the new post represents a return trip through the revolving door between government and the private sector, and a reunion with an old boss.

Before registering as a lobbyist, she was a senior legislative assistant for Price, when the now-HHS secretary was in Congress.

Asked about the three HHS staffers, an agency spokeswoman said: “We are not confirming or commenting on personnel at this time.”

Justin Mikolay, hired at the Department of Defense, was previously a registered lobbyist for Palantir.

His title at the tech firm was “evangelist.”

Mikolay lobbied for the “procurement/deployment of the Palantir Government software platform” throughout intelligence and defense agencies, according to disclosure records.

Mikolay was a speechwriter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta between 2011 and 2013, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Mikolay also previously served as a speechwriter for current Secretary of Defense James Mattis.

He declined to comment.

Chad Wolf, a Bush-era Transportation Security Administration official turned lobbyist, is currently serving as an adviser to the TSA at the Department of Homeland Security.

His clients have included defense and homeland security contractors.

Reached Tuesday, Wolf declined to comment.

George Rogers, CEO of Wolf’s lobbying firm, Wexler Walker, told ProPublica that Wolf is currently on unpaid leave.

As we’ve previously reported, lobbyists for the construction industry trade association and financial services firm TransAmerica are on the team at the Department of Labor.

Termin8tor » 09 Mar 2017 7:39 pm » wrote:Baloney, because Democrats are quite happy with that genre, and clearly don't care about the deadwood.

bigsky » 09 Mar 2017 10:40 pm » wrote:At this point what difference does it make

#ShePersisted » 09 Mar 2017 11:01 pm » wrote: You're right.

#ShePersisted » 09 Mar 2017 7:15 pm » wrote: So maybe you can explain to me how Spicer would know that Dildo.
(This should be good.)

The gov't issued Rosen a subpeona to look at his phone records and emails.
Rosen knows what the subpoena that he was issued covered.
Spicer does not.
ASSHOLE.

Several Conservative media outlets like 'The Blaze' falsely reported that Rosen's phones were tapped, and we know that this White House never fact checks anything before they put it out there.
After all the times they've been burned you would think they've learned their lesson.

#ShePersisted » 09 Mar 2017 7:24 pm » wrote: Sources close to Mr Farage confirmed he was visiting the Wikileaks founder.