The Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) are on track to leave the organization before the new Trump administration takes office, the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) reported on Monday.
The agency watchdog's departure marks some of the first officials to leave the administrative state before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. Mr Trump is swore Eliminate dishonest and corrupt actors from the federal bureaucracy.
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To carry out these reforms, President Trump nominated John Ratcliffe, who served as Director of National Intelligence from 2020 to 2021, to lead the CIA. He also nominated Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, to be director of national intelligence.
pogo reported Regarding the retirement of ODNI Inspector General Thomas Monheim and CIA Inspector General Robin Ashton:
One of the outgoing inspector generals, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Thomas Monheim, will take on his first oversight role after President Trump fired his predecessor, Michael Atkinson, in spring 2020. Mr. Atkinson sent a whistleblower complaint to Congress, which led to Mr. Trump's first impeachment. 2019.
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Monheim and the CIA's Robin Ashton were both nominated by Biden and confirmed by the Senate in 2021 (Monheim began serving as acting inspector general during the first Trump administration the year before).
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Inspectors general, appointed by the president and attached to executive agencies, are responsible for investigating waste, fraud, and abuse of power, and for reporting wrongdoing to both agency heads and Congress. Inspector General oversight has long been thought to be more important when both the executive branch and Congress are under the control of the same political party.
The term “administrative state” specifically describes the phenomenon of unaccountable and unelected administrative bodies, including national security agencies. exercise The power to create and enforce your own rules. The administrative state uses its rule-making ability to essentially usurp the separation of powers between the three branches of government. create The so-called fourth branch of government, which is not formed by the constitution.
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Many unelected bureaucrats within the administrative state also use their positions to impose their policies on the people. For example, before the “laptop from hell” story broke in 2020, 51 intelligence officials signed a letter implying that Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation. politiko peddled The title of the letter is “The Hunter Biden story is Russian disinformation, dozens of former intelligence officials say.” But it appears that the 51 signatories knew: politiko The story was false at the time because the FBI had taken possession of the laptop that Hunter had abandoned at a computer repair shop in Delaware. President Joe Biden cited the story during a 2020 debate with President Trump, discrediting the contents of the laptop. The article was reportedly engineered by Secretary of State Antony Blinken for Biden to use during the event.
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former RNC war room analyst. He is the author of The Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell “×” @WendellHusebø or society of truth @WendellHusebo.
