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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The deputy will have already been approved by Congress so they can just be promoted, it’s a non-aproved acting person that has a time limit.
Also the resignation dosnt kick in till February.
As for Syria, for the last few years the US hasn’t been seriously backing an attempt to remove Assad, it’s been backing the Kurds (who are largely for either independnace or mroe autonomy from Assad, not his removal) and a few reasonable rebel groups in the south (who I think are all dead now) who have never had a serious chance at removing Assad.
The rebels seeking to remove Assad that and US backing all lost with the fall of Aleppo, what’s left are the Kurds, AQ, the Turkish backed groups (who are just seeking to control part of Syria for Turkey) and a few scattered groups with no power.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranBill Clinton more or less removed that rule, followed by Bush and Obama regarding Osama Bin Ladin as well as his conspirators. I remember that it was addressed in an article of TIME magazine that Bill had sidestepped the rule in order to authorize an attack on him—which the writer thought was extreme since terrorists were just criminals.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Dec 23rd 2018 at 8:08:19 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I'd argue sidestepped isn't blatantly ignoring/breaking.
Regardless of any of that, though, do you really want the military simply obeying an order to assassinate someone, anyone, without question? Even if the answer to that is a "yes", would you just as really want them doing it for someone we know is as ignorant, short-sighted, and untrustworthy as Donald Trump?
Edited by sgamer82 on Dec 23rd 2018 at 9:15:43 AM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1076881816462737408?s=19
This guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_M._Shanahan
He spent most of his career at Boeing, looks like your typical corporate suit. Easily confirmed, so you could do a lot worse.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Re: mysterious Subpoena fight:
I know this was in jest, it’s actually a better question than you think. Russian banks usually don’t cooperate with American subpoenas anyway, so pursuing it this far would be unusual to say the least. It’s more likely to be from a Country that usually does.
Edited by megaeliz on Dec 23rd 2018 at 1:35:06 PM
Deutsche Bank is publically traded and has already cooperated with Mueller’s subpoenas.
Actually, I’m wondering if it could be related to a claim in the dossier.
The dossier says the offer was made in July, when Page was in Moscow giving a speech at the Higher Economic School. The claim was sourced to "a trusted compatriot and close associate" of Sechin, according to the dossier's author, former British spy Christopher Steele.
"Sechin's associate said that the Rosneft president was so keen to lift personal and corporate western sanctions imposed on the company, that he offered Page and his associates the brokerage of up to a 19 per cent (privatised) stake in Rosneft," the dossier said. "In return, Page had expressed interest and confirmed that were Trump elected US president, then sanctions on Russia would be lifted."
Four months before the intelligence community briefed Trump, then-President Barack Obama, then-Vice President Joe Biden, and the nation's top lawmakers on the dossier's claims — most of which have not been independently verified but are being investigated by US intelligence agencies — a US intelligence source told Yahoo's Michael Isikoff that Sechin met with Page during Page's three-day trip to Moscow. Sechin, the source told Yahoo, raised the issue of the US lifting sanctions on Russia under Trump.
Rosneft then scrambled to find a foreign investor, holding talks with more than 30 potential buyers from Europe, the US, Asia, and the Middle East. The company signed a deal on December 7 to sell 19.5% of shares, or roughly $11 billion, to the multinational commodity trader Glencore Plc and Qatar's state-owned wealth fund. Qatar's sovereign wealth fund is Glencore's largest shareholder.
The "11th hour deal" was "so last minute," Reuters reported, "that it appeared it would not close in time to meet the government's deadline for booking money in the budget from the sale."
The purchase amounted to the biggest foreign investment in Russia since US sanctions took effect in 2014. It showed that "there are some forces in the world that are ready to help Russia to circumvent the [West's] sanction regime," said Lilia Shevtsova, an associate fellow in the Russia and Eurasia program at Chatham House
Edited by megaeliz on Dec 23rd 2018 at 1:34:00 PM
Germany has
I. Private banks/Publicly traded ones of which Deutsche Bank is an example
II. Cooperative Banks where every Accountholder is also a equal Shareholder. One Accountholder, one vote.
and finally
III. Public Banks
As for Deutsche Bank? Here's their biggest Shareholders
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I suggested Rosneft as a possibility a few days ago. Since it was recently announced that Mueller was focusing in on the sanction-lifting angle of the Trump campaign and its connections with Russia, this becomes an even more likely possibility—the simple fact we know Mueller is looking into that makes it believable Rosneft is facing legal pressure, and in case the subpoenas do fall through, Mueller would need the information another way which would also explain the publicly-known information that he is questioning Trump's people about the sanctions.
If it is Rosneft, all the secrecy and the fact they're fighting this so hard suggests that once again there is accuracy to the dossier.
Edited by Ingonyama on Dec 23rd 2018 at 2:45:21 AM
. Or the Quartari Investment Authority. They were the ones to purchase the stake in Rosneft that was originally offered to Trump campaign staffers, and claimed to have incriminating evidence against Kushner, but refuse to turn it over to American Authorities, for fear of damaging their relationship with the Trump Adminstration.
Say, why did Trump decide so suddenly to pull out troops from Syria and Afghanistan, anyway? You'd think he'd be concerned about such an order making him look like a cowardly weakling of a POTUS.
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If it's like the AG, there can only be an 'Acting' for 180 days.
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