Remarkable video from Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller calling out senior leaders on Afghanistan. "People are upset because senior leaders let them down, and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability or saying 'we messed this up.'"

"Did any of you throw your rank on the table and say ‘hey, it’s a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone.’ Did anyone do that? And when you didn’t think to do that did anyone raise their hand and say ‘we completely messed this up?'"

"Potentially all those people did die in vain if we don't have senior leaders that own up and raise their hand and say 'we did not do this well in the end.'"

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Dec 18, 2020

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NEW TODAY: Progressives line up their own national security recruits for Biden | @BryanDBender @politico politico.com/news/2020/12/1…

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@BryanDBender @politico The effort marks a new phase for progressive groups, which have criticized the ties to arms-makers of some Cabinet picks and have also lobbied the Biden-Harris team to enlist a more diverse set of views in building out its national security staff

"This is quite unprecedented. It says there are, in fact, an impressive number of people who could legitimately fill those jobs and question the dominant perspective on foreign policy and national security," Gordon Adams said

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Dec 4, 2020

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SCOOP: Several members of the Defense Business Board were fired on Friday, marking the latest effort by the Trump administration to clean out the Pentagon in the final weeks of the president's term
politico.com/news/2020/12/0…
@laraseligman @dlippman @jacqklimas @politico

"This kind of a move really will weigh heavily in people on the future and their willingness to serve on these outside advisory boards if they're going to be subjected to political loyalty test. It's unprecedented. I'm just saddened," former chair Michael Bayer said

This is the email they received:

"Good morning. If you are receiving this e-mail, your membership on the Defense Business Board has expired or is coming to an end. This e-mail serves as notice that we will be nominating new board members for the board"

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Nov 10, 2020

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🚨🚨🚨SCOOP: The Pentagon’s acting policy chief resigned on Tuesday after falling out of favor with the White House, raising fears of a post-election exodus at the Defense Department politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
@laraseligman @dlippman @POLITICO

The departure of James Anderson, the acting undersecretary of defense for policy, potentially paves the way for Anthony Tata, Trump’s controversial nominee for the top policy job who was pulled from contention due to Islamophobic tweets, to take over the policy shop

@KFILE

After the White House announced his nomination this year, CNN's @KFILE unearthed tweets by Tata calling Obama a “terrorist leader” and referring to Islam as the "most oppressive violent religion I know of"

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Sep 24, 2020

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UPDATE: Trump's former Coast Guard chief tells POLITICO why he's endorsing Joe Biden and says that under this administration, he's seen an insurgency against the Constitution
politico.com/news/2020/09/2…
@laraseligman @politico

Retired Adm. Paul Zukunft also cites the government shutdown that kept Coast Guardsmen from getting paid, Trump's dismissal of science when it comes to climate change and Covid, and Trump's ban on transgender troops as the other reasons he's endorsing Biden

"How do you respond to a tweet? The whole decision-making process, it would be a tweet, what's the public reaction, and then things would move along in that direction. At no point was there even any sit-down discussion or deliberation"

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