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Lame Duck Donald Fires Head of Pentagon's ISIS Task Force
Trump wants to claim he defeated ISIS. Trump wants to make it difficult for President Biden to take over. We are witnessing seriously treasonous behavior. Trump and his enablers are sabotaging our government.
The Pentagon policy official overseeing the military’s efforts to combat the Islamic State was fired on November 30, 2020 after a White House appointee told him the United States had won that war and that his office had been disbanded....
The official, Christopher P. Maier, was the head of the Pentagon’s Defeat ISIS Task Force since March 2017, and his ouster came just three weeks after President Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper and three other Pentagon officials, replacing them with loyalists.
Now here's the key: SABOTAGE
When Mr. Maier’s team was disbanded, they were in the midst of answering dozens of questions from the incoming Biden administration about the status of terrorist threats, relations with allies and counterterrorism missions. Now team members will be scattered across the vast Pentagon bureaucracy or returned to their home agencies.
.... the move by the newly promoted Pentagon leadership to eliminate that central hub will almost certainly slow the flow of counterterrorism information to Biden transition aides in the coming weeks
Trump and his cronies don't give a damn about the country. Their actions are disgraceful and are threatening the national security of the United States.
Mr. Maier’s supporters say he was summarily forced out of an important but low-profile job that required navigating the shoals of Washington’s counterterrorism bureaucracy as well as flying off to combat zones, including northeast Syria and Iraq, to work with precarious partners on the ground in the fight against the Islamic State.
Mr. Maier, 44, an Air National Guard intelligence officer who has worked in counterterrorism jobs in Republican and Democratic administrations for two decades, declined to comment.