Steve Bannon, The Donals’s pick for a permanent seat on the National Security Council may be running into a mode of fugue. It seems the administrator of Breitbart.com and an avid Lenin admirer himself (and how long he holds onto that label is questionable) is wading in a bog of a lack of a Top Secret+ security clearance.
Hell, for all I know, maybe The Donald may be shaky on that too – but I expect he was vetted before being able to run for Pres or it would have come out.
If Mr. Bannon (who Ol’Muck does not think highly of) can’t get a security clearance can The Donald use an executive order to force the granting of such clearance? Somehow I doubt it – but with this mess I never know.
Have a lovely week – next week. This one is shot!
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Hussein (the Nobel Peace Prize winning Traitor) and Harpy (the Horrible Traitor) who used an unsecure private “Top Secret” server both had TS clearances so I think Bannon will pass with flying colors.
That should fall within the powers of the EO unless there is specific legislation preventing it.
But I’m not sure it is needed to fill the position.
Muck, we have not had anyone watching the hen house (vetting) with real security clearance for WH staff for years. Why do you say Bannon is a Lenin admirer, never heard that one?
I AM an admirer of Steve Bannon and I can answer your questions. Steve Bannon is a former officer in the U.S. Navy. The idea that he would not be granted a Top Secret clearance is absurd. I can assure you he had one in the Navy. Why wouldn´t he get a clearance? Because RINO´s, Democrats and other filth don´t happen to like him? Re your reference to Lenin, are you suggesting Bannon is a Communist? Have you been smoking too much of the weed washing up on the coast?
As for President Trump, he doesn´t need a clearance. He is the who issues them. The president and other Federal elected repeat elected officials are not “vetted”, with some exceptions for members of Congress on special committees. Obama could never have passed the requirements for even a Secret clearance. The murky circumstances of his birth (we still don´t know where he was born, though Canada is the best bet – the birth certificate is an obvious and clumsy forgery), his unexplained foreign travel and ties, possible foreign funding of his college education, links to Bill Ayers and other terrorists and criminals, his shady Chicago contacts – all would preclude any kind of clearance being granted.
I think Muck is off his meds.
I know Bannon. We’ve talked numerous times and emailed many times. He interviewed me on his national radio show. He asked me to be in his documentary because he read my articles during the financial crisis and agreed with them 100%. His entire documentary was based on the Fourth Turning. He’s no communist. He probably still reads TBP.
Hey Bannon – if you are reading this –
Blow me!
It is a term of endearment around here.
Hey Bannon – if you are reading this. – Get Trump to buy you some killer suits. And wear sunglasses all the time.
Hey Bannon, can you get rid of the IRS before April 15th…….PLEASE? Help a Nigga out. 🙂
Meds? Meds? What makes you sure I’m on any meds? Oh well. Maybe one or two but I did take them this morning, so it has to be some other aberration.
Since Bannon was a key player in Trump’s victory, and is a major force for his agenda, I am puzzled by your dislike. Did you support Trump?
I think Ol’ Muck has been reading the Orlando Mullet Wrapper
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-ed-steve-bannon-is-the-new-vladimir-lennin-02022017-story.html
or perhaps The Daily Roast Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/22/steve-bannon-trump-s-top-guy-told-me-he-was-a-leninist.html
Muck- You are damned lucky Admin likes you so much, he nearly ripped my face off and barbequed it one morning for simply mentioning Bannon worked for Goldman Sachs.
lenin was genius, he clearly states how he will destroy all who oppose his world view. read and learn from the master, too bad few do.
After Obama’s antics, Stalin could qualify for a top secret security clearance. The author mus be hanging out at Bleeker Street bars again.
Well, I kicked over a pile of dogshit that time didn’t I? All I did was wonder about what I have read (from multiple sources) about Bannon. These sources were mostly universal in their evaluation of him, his contacts with Putin and some unsavory detail.
But in this not to happy day and age, even multiple sources can lead you astray if they all lean in the same direction.
The obvious poll of TBP opinion on this one is that Mr. Bannon is a Boy Scout of the first order deemed to do wonderful and intelligent things on the NSC and as top advisor to The Donald. I, if allowed (and I don’t know how you can unallow me) will bide my time a bit more on Mr. Bannon and hope for the best.
But I welcome opposing views from the shit throwing monkeys of TBP because a lot of them have new slants, new ideas and perhaps a better or broader view that has picked up vibs I missed. I am always ready to stand corrected.
On Mr. Bannon or anything else — but not quite yet..
If Bannon was a Boy Scout, Trump wouldn’t need him…Bannon plays for keeps. And is there something objectionable about Tillerson’s or Bannon’s contacts with Putin? I think they’re a plus….It was Hillary that wanted war with Russia, her being a crazed alcoholic….
I am very happy Steve Bannon is assisting Trump. Sage hit the mark on his military service as something that works to his favor for a security clearance. But he’s surely not a “boy scout”, Muck. And that’s not what we want for a Trump advisor anyway.
Both Trump and Bannon have taken sledgehammers to political correctness, which is refreshing and long overdue. It’s the best political entertainment in my lifetime.
I like Bannon.