The Guardian: Trump 'decapitating' intelligence leadership amid coronavirus crisis – Schiff
President says someone should ‘sue the ass off’ whistleblower whose complaint fired official relayed
Donald Trump is “decapitating the leadership of the intelligence community in the middle of a national crisis”, senior Democrat Adam Schiff has charged, after the president fired the inspector general of the US intelligence community late on Friday night.
News of the firing of Michael Atkinson came as the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in the US passed 7,000 and the White House faced continuing criticism for its handling of the response.
Trump raged about Atkinson at Saturday’s White House coronavirus taskforce briefing, claiming someone should “sue the ass off” the whistleblower whose complaint Atkinson relayed to Congress, per his constitutional duty.
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WNU Editor: House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff wants to set up 9/11-style commission to review the White House's coronavirus response .... Lawmakers fight for a piece of coronavirus ‘9/11 commission’ (Politico). Translation .... it looks like they want to lay the ground-work to impeach President Trump again. What I want to know is why did the US intelligence committee that oversees the intel community and led by Chairman Adam Schiff failed in its duty to warn the public that the intel community was not doing its job on the growing coronavirus outbreak in China in December, January, and February. Is it because they were more focused at the time on impeaching President Trump instead of overseeing the intel community and protecting the American public?Just asking.
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WNU.. Adam Schiff is responsible for intelligence and the biggest intelligence failing in the history of the country occurs? Is no one suspecting Adam Schiff of treason? How can one man be so incompetent and single handidly nearly ruin smd divide the US? I don't think he'll go much further than this. His history will be written by Trump not vice versa and we all know it, facts aside. But I do find Schiff suspicious. He even acted out a scene instead of reading out facts during a nationally televised session that started the impeachment. He's a disgrace. How do people like him rise so high? How do they stay in power for so long? It's terrible to watch
The (un)intelligence community failed to warn POTUS of this and they failed to warn the American people. This is one of their many failings. So, of course POTUS may want to "decapitate" the leadership. Of course the man they would really want to investigate would be Dr. Anthony Fauci. In January he was saying it wasn't a threat. Then he begins yapping hysterically about it in February or so. He's been the point man on this thing from the start. IMHO POTUS should fire Fauci ASAP if this is possible.
I did notice late last week that Facui beefed up his security. As a top government official, his standard security detail should be enough to handle routine stuff that comes about such as angry peasants that his policies have hurt and it should be more than enough to ensure his life of luxury along with five course steak dinners is unimpeded. Other interests have started to speak up and potentially challenge him. Hence the beefed up security. Whether by accident or design he's acquired incredible power and I don't think he is going to give it up without a fight. The long range effects of the stay at home orders and the quarantines if continued will far exceed the 2.2 million figure for deaths offered by another US leader. So in his quest for power I'm not sure he cares how many people are killed or hurt. Nevertheless the sooner he's out the better. As long as he's there, I think it's going to be problematic to come up with a sensible way forward.
The 2.2 million was highest estimated US casualties as a direct result of COVID-19. If the reaction to this threat is continued much longer, the end result of the extreme stress of this and loss of income for many will result in more than 2.2 million. As POTUS said in a moment of clarity, the cure cannot be worse than the disease.
Tax season must really be slow. Especially so since Russian has flat tax and is not hard to compute.
There's something wrong with this guy @ Adam Schiff
His eyes are not normal.. even his neck is not normal :D
Obviously a job for....... secret squirrel! Yes, the master of "means and methods" will swoop in with an intel nugget gleaned from one of his famous dinners to save us poor proles.
That is when he can get away from his test drive at Mr. Chuds dealership.
"A Pennsylvania woman was stopped by police and issued a citation on Sunday after she went for a leisurely drive during the statewide stay-at-home order intended to stem the spread of coronavirus."
People are going to be so sick of jackbooted Democrats before all this is over.
“failed to abide by the order of the governor and secretary of health issued to control the spread of a communicable disease, requiring the closure of all non-life-sustaining businesses as of 20:00 hours on March 19, 2020. To wit, defendant states that she was ‘going for a drive’ after this violation was in effect.”
Driving a car, the young lady was 6 or more feet from anyone. But when you have Democrat governors, they are always looking to ding ya.
US intelligence officials reportedly warned President Donald Trump and Congress about the threats posed by the novel coronavirus beginning in early January — weeks before the White House and lawmakers began implementing stringent public health measures and as the president minimized the threat posed by the virus in his tweets and public statements.
The fact those warnings were largely disregarded — something first reported by the Washington Post’s Shane Harris, Greg Miller, Josh Dawsey, and Ellen Nakashima — suggests Trump administration officials failed to take action that could have prepared the health care system to handle an influx of patients, helped Americans avoid mass social distancing, and saved lives.
Top health officials first learned of the virus’s spread in China on January 3, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Friday. Throughout January and February, intelligence officials’ warnings became more and more urgent, according to the Post — and by early February, much of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA’s intelligence reports were dedicated to warnings about Covid-19.
NO Poster: they did not fail...Trump failed
US intelligence officials reportedly warned President Donald Trump and Congress about the threats posed by the novel coronavirus beginning in early January — weeks before the White House and lawmakers began implementing stringent public health measures and as the president minimized the threat posed by the virus in his tweets and public statements.
The fact those warnings were largely disregarded — something first reported by the Washington Post’s Shane Harris, Greg Miller, Josh Dawsey, and Ellen Nakashima — suggests Trump administration officials failed to take action that could have prepared the health care system to handle an influx of patients, helped Americans avoid mass social distancing, and saved lives.
Top health officials first learned of the virus’s spread in China on January 3, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Friday. Throughout January and February, intelligence officials’ warnings became more and more urgent, according to the Post — and by early February, much of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA’s intelligence reports were dedicated to warnings about Covid-19.
Perhaps it is time for the Trump supporters to do some research rather than blaming the Dems, intel, Schiff, et al..The facts so often show that blind adherence and deflection makes you look both sophomoric and terribly biased
Coronavirus, however, has come to Russia. There is a very real fear that containment measures to hold it back will be overwhelmed and the virus will overwhelm a brittle and underfunded health system—and that, combined with an economic shock (chairman of the Audit Commission and former finance minister Alexei Kudrin estimates as much as an eight percent contraction in the Russian economy due to an oil price/coronavirus double punch), can destabilize the Russian political system.
Putin himself has gone into social distancing and remote conferencing with the government after shaking hands and meeting with Dr. Denis Protsenko at the end of March during a tour of Moscow's facilities for coping with coronavirus, after he tested positive for the virus. Putin is effectively in seclusion—a presence on television screens, but not exercising his past “on the ground” style of direct management, most notably during the 2008–09 financial crisis. And now that British prime minister Boris Johnson has been sent to the hospital after displaying COVID-19 symptoms, speculation increases as to whether Putin is also possibly out sick—and what that could mean for Russian politics.
In January, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency. Now, a report by the Associated Press reveals that the Trump administration squandered months instead of preparing for the coming pandemic. The administration's lackluster response is having deadly consequences.
Federal purchasing contracts reviewed by AP show that federal agencies did not begin placing bulk orders of medical equipment until mid-March. That means rather than acting as soon as the World Health Organization declared a pandemic, the Trump administration waited two months before placing bulk orders of N95 masks and ventilators — essential equipment for health workers battling coronavirus.
In early February, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed that the government sent nearly 18 tons of donated medical supplies to China. Just a few weeks later, the White House sent Congress a $2.5 billion funding request to respond to the outbreak in the U.S. At the time, however, Health Secretary Alex Azar told lawmakers that "the immediate risk to the American public remains low." All the while, President Trump declined to act, even as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention detected the first suspected case of local coronavirus transmission and confirmed the first death reported in the U.S. in February.
Meanwhile, the orders that the federal government did finally place last month are unlikely to be of much help for another couple of weeks yet. Records reviewed by AP show that HHS made a $4.8 million order on March 12 for N95 masks from 3M. The agency placed a second $173 million order on March 21. However, the contracts don't require 3M to begin deliveries until the end of April, when the pandemic is projected to reach its peak, per AP's reporting.
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By Luke Darby
April 6, 2020
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Sarah Silbiger
Even before the U.S. had its first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus on January 21, the Trump administration knew that the outbreak was a threat. As the disease was spreading in other countries, intelligence officials issued classified reports warning that a global pandemic was extremely likely. And the Department of Health and Human Services training exercises from 2019 showed that in the event of a pandemic, U.S. hospitals would be overwhelmed and resource-deprived.
Despite those early warnings, Trump's administration didn't immediately take action to shore up supplies of essential medical equipment like ventilators, gowns, and N95 respirator masks. In fact, according to the Associated Press, the federal government didn't start making orders for bulk production of that gear until the middle of March. Kathleen Sebelius, head of Health and Human Services under Barack Obama, told the AP, "We basically wasted two months."
That two-month delay has caused chaos across the country as states and hospitals have been left on their own to scramble to cover shortages, often forced to compete against each other for resources from private companies. The result is nurses wearing trash bags and hospitals reusing disposable masks in an effort to have at least some kind of protective barrier for health-care workers. Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, even sent the team plane to China to pick up 1.2 million N95 masks, after Massachusetts got outbid for PPE. As New York governor Andrew Cuomo put it in a press conference last week, "You have 50 states competing to buy the same item. We all wind up bidding up each other and competing against each other. You now literally will have a company call you up and say, well, California just outbid you." Cuomo has called for a "nationwide buying consortium" of states working together to buy in bulk without undercutting each other, which is—in theory at least—the role that a functioning federal government is supposed to play.
Luke Darby! LOlololololololo!
5:36 PM
You poor baby or should I saw stupid troll , Russian or Democrat (doesn't matter; both Bolshies).
Troll boys and soy boys like you say listen to the experts. What was expert Director-general of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus telling us in January? Do not worry about this. What was Dr Fauci telling us in early January. don't worry about it.
When Trump shutdown flight from China the soy boys (that is you my man) screamed racism.
The Corona virus epidemic was not mentioned once in Democrat debates.
Then there is the Democrats talking about gear instead of medicine. Chloroquine actually works and a scientist gave the mechanism. So we not only know empirically that it works, we know why theoretically. That is a fucking home, a GAME CHANGER.
Now sit down and Shut the fuck UP. You are a malcontent dweeb of no ability except to produce green house gasses.
How do people like him rise so high??
Deep Throat and Knee pads!
Lololololo!
Luke Darby is a contributor to GQ (Gentleman's Quarterly), covering news, entertainment, and the environment. A Louisiana native, he now resides in Cleveland, and his writing has also appeared in Outside, the Dallas Observer, and Marie Claire.
Now there is some hard hitting journalism.
Editorial Fellow/Freelance Writer
Dallas Observer
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Dallas, TX
"Wrote and reported cover stories for print edition of paper.
Wrote daily posts for the paper's news and then food blogs."
A foodie with a English Lit. degree.
Sign me up Fred!
Stronger and gayer than ever; Writing at @GQMagazine
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Alright then.
GQ from wiki
"The magazine reported an average worldwide paid circulation of 934,000 in the first half of 2019,[1] down 1.1% from 944,549 in 2016 and 2.6% from 958,926 in 2015"
Circling the drain it appears
Squirrel claiming someone is delusional. Lololololo!
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