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Freeloading Rusty

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Donald Trump hands cell number out to world leaders, and that compromises security: expert

“If you are speaking on an open line, then it’s an open line, meaning those who have the ability to monitor those conversations are doing so,” said Derek Chollet, a former Pentagon adviser and National Security Council official now at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

A president “doesn’t carry with him a secure phone,” Chollet said. “If someone is trying to spy on you, then everything you’re saying, you have to presume that others are listening to it.”

The caution is warranted even when dealing with allies. As German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s learned in 2013, when a dump of American secrets leaked by Edward Snowden revealed the U.S. was monitoring her cellphone, good relations don’t prevent some spycraft between friends.

“If you are Macron or the leader of any country and you get the cellphone number of the president of the United States, it’s reasonable to assume that they’d hand it right over to their intel service,” said Ashley Deeks, a law professor at the University of Virginia who formerly served as the assistant legal adviser for political-military affairs in the U.S. State Department.







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jasonhightower

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Trump Exempts Entire Senior Staff From White House Ethics Rules

Trump Exempts Entire Senior Staff From White House Ethics Rules
After a pointed exchange with ethics officials, the White House has released a list of waivers to Trump’s ethics rules—and Kellyanne Conway, Steve Bannon, and more are exempted.
Lachlan Markay
05.31.17 10:55 PM ET
President Donald Trump has exempted his entire senior staff from provisions of his own ethics rules to allow them to work with political and advocacy groups that support the administration.

Staffers given a pass on those rules include White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, who has the green light to communicate and meet with “political, advocacy, trade, or non-profit organizations” that formerly employed her consulting firm, despite ethics rules that would otherwise bar work with former clients.
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Freeloading Rusty

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Sean Spicer: White House is no longer taking questions on Trump and Russia
The White House said on Wednesday it will no longer answer questions about the ongoing investigations into Donald Trump’s alleged links to Russia.
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Asked about Comey’s evidence and whether the president had engaged in obstruction of justice, his press secretary Sean Spicer replied: “We are focused on the president’s agenda and going forward all questions on these matters will be referred to outside counsel Marc Kasowitz.”
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Belobog

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Truck Party said:
more of our illustrious media

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I don't see a problem.


"Everyone should have a shot at paid family leave"
by Heather Boushey

Heather Marie Boushey is the executive director and chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a think tank founded to accelerate cutting-edge analysis into whether and how structural changes in the U.S. economy, particularly related to economic inequality, affect economic growth, and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, a U.S. think tank. She is the author of Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict, published in 2016 by Harvard University Press. In August 2016, it was announced that Boushey would have served as Chief Economist of Hillary Clinton's presidential transition team had she won
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"How paid family leave hurts women"
by Vanessa Brown Calder

Vanessa Brown Calder is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, where she focuses on social welfare, housing, and urban policy. Previously, Calder was a graduate fellow in welfare studies at The Heritage Foundation, where she analyzed the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) and Chicago’s housing voucher program. Calder has published articles in the Washington Examiner, Morning Consult, National Review Online, Daily Signal and Kennedy School Review and consulted for a nonpartisan state policy think tank. Much of her experience is in environmental consulting for the energy industry, urban planning for local municipalities, and international development for a humanitarian organization.
Vanessa Brown Calder
 
kneeblock

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Belobog said:
I don't see a problem.


"Everyone should have a shot at paid family leave"
by Heather Boushey

Heather Marie Boushey is the executive director and chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a think tank founded to accelerate cutting-edge analysis into whether and how structural changes in the U.S. economy, particularly related to economic inequality, affect economic growth, and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, a U.S. think tank. She is the author of Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict, published in 2016 by Harvard University Press. In August 2016, it was announced that Boushey would have served as Chief Economist of Hillary Clinton's presidential transition team had she won
Heather Boushey - Wikipedia


"How paid family leave hurts women"
by Vanessa Brown Calder

Vanessa Brown Calder is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, where she focuses on social welfare, housing, and urban policy. Previously, Calder was a graduate fellow in welfare studies at The Heritage Foundation, where she analyzed the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) and Chicago’s housing voucher program. Calder has published articles in the Washington Examiner, Morning Consult, National Review Online, Daily Signal and Kennedy School Review and consulted for a nonpartisan state policy think tank. Much of her experience is in environmental consulting for the energy industry, urban planning for local municipalities, and international development for a humanitarian organization.
Vanessa Brown Calder
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Wtf?? You exist?!
 
Truck Party

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Belobog said:
I don't see a problem.


"Everyone should have a shot at paid family leave"
by Heather Boushey

Heather Marie Boushey is the executive director and chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a think tank founded to accelerate cutting-edge analysis into whether and how structural changes in the U.S. economy, particularly related to economic inequality, affect economic growth, and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, a U.S. think tank. She is the author of Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict, published in 2016 by Harvard University Press. In August 2016, it was announced that Boushey would have served as Chief Economist of Hillary Clinton's presidential transition team had she won
Heather Boushey - Wikipedia


"How paid family leave hurts women"
by Vanessa Brown Calder

Vanessa Brown Calder is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, where she focuses on social welfare, housing, and urban policy. Previously, Calder was a graduate fellow in welfare studies at The Heritage Foundation, where she analyzed the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) and Chicago’s housing voucher program. Calder has published articles in the Washington Examiner, Morning Consult, National Review Online, Daily Signal and Kennedy School Review and consulted for a nonpartisan state policy think tank. Much of her experience is in environmental consulting for the energy industry, urban planning for local municipalities, and international development for a humanitarian organization.
Vanessa Brown Calder
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weird how they solicited an editorial from someone from a libertarian think tank right after Trump came out in favor of it..
 
kneeblock

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So I came on this thread which I almost always avoid to say I finally get the Trump endgame and why some of his ideological supporters are gung ho for him.

Grover Norquist famously said he wanted government to be so small you could drown it in a tub. Trump seems determined to diminish state power over most things besides national security to do just that. He is also through his perceived bumbling basically trolling the idea of executive prestige while using it to defang the media as an influencer of policy. Ostensibly this will lead to more prosperity and a new age of American self reliance.

So I get all that. The question I have for his supporters, assuming you believe this, is how long do you suppose this process will take? Let's put aside the political costs. It won't be accomplished in one term or even two due to the glacial pace of change in regulation in my considered opinion. How long would this agenda need to stay in place to give rise to the the free market utopia that is said to arise in the wake of a diminished state?
 
Freeloading Rusty

Freeloading Rusty

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Jan 11, 2016
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Zeph

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Hurricane season over there soon right? I'm hearing Trump has failed to appoint enough people to that department. Couldn't that get real messy?
 
Hauler

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Kneeblock said:
Trump seems determined to diminish state power over most things besides national security to do just that. He is also through his perceived bumbling basically trolling the idea of executive prestige while using it to defang the media as an influencer of policy. Ostensibly this will lead to more prosperity and a new age of American self reliance.
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I think you are giving Trump WAY too much credit.
 
Hauler

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Hauler

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Zeph said:
Hurricane season over there soon right? I'm hearing Trump has failed to appoint enough people to that department. Couldn't that get real messy?
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LMAO! Yeah - FEMA was always a top notch government agency prior to Trump taking office.
 
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