Ryan Zinke Corruption News

[_canpakes]

Well, he’s on his way out, now. We’ll have to find someone else with as much potential for corruption to replace him.

[_Dr Exiled]

I'd like to see EA put together the researched essay. However, I would like to have him compare Trump to as many presidents as he can since Reagan, if possible. I don't think Trump is as corrupt as the others. He hasn't had the time for one thing. Obama came in promising a very progressive agenda and ended up being Bush II's protege, bailing out the corrupt bankers and expanding the murderous wars. Reagan gave us the S&L crisis and Iran/Contra. Bush I lied us into war. Clinton had his share of controversies and Bush II lied us into war while taking away our rights bit by bit. They all seem pretty corrupt to me. Just look at how the pentagon has been allowed to mismanage its budget over all these administrations and I think one could easily find systemic corruption touching all these presidents.

[_Goya]

I'd like to see EA put together the researched essay. However, I would like to have him compare Trump to as many presidents as he can since Reagan, if possible.

No rubric is perfect, but how about using the number of indictments in each administration as the metric?

[_Dr Exiled]

No rubric is perfect, but how about using the number of indictments in each administration as the metric?

Convictions are better as prosecutors can indict almost anything and some indictments are politically motivated. We saw that clearly with the Clinton impeachment nonsense where the house indicted but the Senate smartly refused to convict.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

From /r/politics:

In Memoriam 2018

1. Kristan King Nevins, Second Lady Chief of Staff, January 4
2. Mark Paoletta, Vice President Chief lawyer, January 5
3. Daris Meeks, Vice President domestic policy director, January 5
4. Shannon McGahn, Senior Treasury Official, January 5
5. John D Feeley, Ambassador to Panama, January 12
6. Majority of National Park Council, January 13
7. Carl Higbie, the Chief of External Affairs for CNCS, January 18
8. Omarosa Manigault, ?????, January 19
9. Taylor Weyeneth, White House liaison to the drug office, January 24
10. Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, CDC Head, January 31
11. Robert Porter, White House staff secretary, February 7
12. David Sorenson, White House speech writer, February 9
13. Jim Carroll, Deputy Chief of Staff, February 9
14. Rachel Brand, Associate Attorney General, February 10, 2018
15. George David Banks, Special assistant to the president, February 14
16. Vivieca Wright, VA Chief of Staff, February 16
17. Josh Raffel, White House communications aide, February 27
18. Hope Hicks, Communcations Director, February 28
19. Gary Cohn, Economics Adviser, March 6
20. Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State, March 13
21. John McEntee, Personal Assistant to the President, March 13
22. Steve Goldstein, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, March 13
23. Andrew McCabe, Deputy Director of the FBI Director, March 19
24. John Dowd, Lead Lawyer for Donald Trump, March 22
25. H.R McMaster, National Security Adviser, March 22
26. Joseph diGenova, Attorney for Trump (resigned before working for the president), March 25
27. Victoria Toensing, Attorney for Trump (resigned before working for the president), March 25
28. David Shulkin, VA secretary, March 28
29. D.J. Gribbin, Infrastructure Adviser, April 3
30. Samantha Dravis, EPA Counsel, April 5
31. Michael Anton, National Security Council spokesman, April 8
32. Tom Bossert, Honeland Security Adviser, April 10
33. Ricky Waddell, Deputy national security adviser, April 12
34. James Schwab, spokesperson for ICE, April 13
35. Rob Joyce, National Security Council Member, April 16
36. Thomas Homan, Deputy Ice Director, April 30
37. Ronny Jackson, Personal Doctor to the President, May 1
38. Ty Cobb, Lead Attorney, May 2
39. Dr. Jen Pena, Personal Doctor to the Vice President, May 4
40. Marc Short, the White House legislative director, June 15
41. Joe Hagin, Deputy Chief of Staff, June 19
42. Everett Eissenstat, Member of both National Economic Council and the National Security Council, June 26
43. Maggie Cordish, Adviser to Ivanka Trump on paid family leave, June 29
44. James D. Melville Jr., Ambassador to Estonia, June 29
45. Scott Pruitt, Head of EPA, July 5
46. Jennifer Arangio, A senior director in the NSC, July 13
47. Michael Barry, the senior National Security Council director for intelligence programs, July 17
48. Reagan Hedlund, Policy Director for the First Lady, August 3
49. Darren Bettie, Speech writer, August 19
50. Seth Frotman, Student loan Ombudsman (guy in charge of student loans), August 26
51. Don McGahan, White House Counsel, August 29 (said he would leave in fall)
52. Stefan Passantino, White House ethics lawyer, August 30
53. Retired Navy SEAL Adm. William McRaven, Defense Innovation Board, September 15
54. Arthur Elkins, Inspector General EPA, September 18
55. Nikki Haley, Ambassador to the UN, October 8
56. Mary Kendal, Acting Inspector General at the Department of the Interior, October 17
57. Suzanne Israel Tufts, an assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development, October 19
58. Jeff Sessions, Attorney General, November 7
59. Mira Ricardel, Deputy National Security Adviser, November 14
60. Jordan Karem, Trump's "body man" and director of Oval Office Operations, November 26
61. Joe Dunford, Head of the Joint Chiefs, December 7
62. John Kelly, White House Chief of Staff, December 8
63. Nick Ayers, Vice President Chief of Staff (was speculated to be taking White House Chief of Staff job) December 9
64. Ryan Zinke, Head of the Department of the Interior, December 15

In Memoriam for 2017

1. Michael Flynn, Feb, 14, 2017
2. Michael Dubke, May 30, 2017
3. Walter Shaub, July 29, 2017
4. Sean Spicer, July 21, 2017
5. Marc Kasowitz, July 21, 2017
6. Michael Short, July 25, 2017
7. Reince Prebius, July 28, 2017
8. the MOOCH, July 31, 2017
9. Steve Bannon, August 18, 2017
10. Carl Icahn, August 18, 2017
11. Andy Hemming, August 24, 2017
12. Sebastian Gorka, August 25, 2017
13. Keith Scheiller, September 1, 2017
14. Chuck Rosenberg, Sept 26, 2017
15. Tom Price, September 29, 2017
16. Dina Powel, Dec 8, 2017
17. Paul Winfree, Dec 10, 2017
18. Jeremy Katz, Dec 21, 2017
19. Rick Dearborn, Dec 22, 2017

Casualties of Trump

• Sally Yates, Jan 30, 2017
• Preet Bharara, March 12, 2017
• James Comey, May 9, 2017
• USA Respect and Authority: decreasing every day

Advisory Councils

• the Arts Council
• the digital economy
• the job Council
• infrastructure council
• Climate Council
• HIV/AIDS Council

He's going to get the best to work for us!

- Doc

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

https://www.ucsusa.org/our-work/center- ... BZWiDBKjX4

Science Under Siege at the Department of the Interior (2018)

From the downloadable report:

Mandating that scientific grants be reviewed by a political appointee with no science background

I'm not sure I should share this report because it makes your knees buckle. It's one of those reality pills you swallow and then you realize there's no way humans are going to make it because we're damned retarded on purpose. Between this report and reading Ajax's Project Veritas thread I'm a bit dizzy. I haven't been drinking, but I feel like I just got done guzzling from the grog bowl at my frat's annual fuck-shit-up party.

- Doc

[_Goya]

No rubric is perfect, but how about using the number of indictments in each administration as the metric?

Convictions are better as prosecutors can indict almost anything and some indictments are politically motivated. We saw that clearly with the Clinton impeachment nonsense where the house indicted but the Senate smartly refused to convict.

Sure, let's stick with convictions. It looks like convictions of Trump campaign and administration associates have already begun, of which, it appears, we'll blessed with an abundance. In contrast, I'm not sure Obama had any.

[_Goya]

Obama - no convictions.

Bush, George W. - sixteen convictions.

Clinton - one conviction.

Bush, George H. W. - one conviction.

Reagan - sixteen convictions.

(Data from: http://www.collegeofcomplexes.org/Comparing-Criminal-Indictments-of-Executive-Branch-Personnel--Dems-vs-Rep.html.)

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

The citizen's ability to accept lies facilitates the tyrant's ability to destroy the State. They also become complicit in its destruction through willful obliviousness.

- Doc

[_canpakes]

"Zinke’s #2 has so many potential conflicts of interest he has to carry a list of them all"

Over the past two decades, Bernhardt has played key roles in both Interior headquarters and the lobbying community that works to sway the department’s decisions. He had to recuse himself from “particular matters” directly affecting 26 former clients in order to adhere to the Trump administration’s ethics requirements.

The recusals have expired for four of them, allowing Bernhardt to plunge into policymaking that has prompted critics to say he is helping his former clients...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... 17c74c0e2d