US Department of Energy

[mellincf]

How to stop a virus, how to take a census, how to determine if some foreign country is seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon or if North Korean missiles can reach Kansas City: these are enduring technical problems. The people appointed by a newly elected president to solve these problems have roughly 75 days to learn from their predecessors. After the inauguration, a lot of deeply knowledgeable people will scatter to the four winds and be forbidden, by federal law, from initiating any contact with their replacements.

A month after the election Thomas Pyle, a former lobbyist for Koch Industries, arrived for a meeting with Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, Deputy Secretary Sherwood-Randall, and Knobloch. Moniz is a nuclear physicist, then on leave from M.I.T., who had served as deputy secretary during the Clinton administration and is widely viewed, even by many Republicans, as understanding and loving the D.O.E. better than any person on earth. Pyle appeared to have no interest in anything he had to say. “He did not seem motivated to spend a lot of time understanding the place,” says Sherwood-Randall. “He didn’t bring a pencil or a piece of paper. He didn’t ask questions. He spent an hour. That was it. He never asked to meet with us again.”

Pyle then vanished from the scene. He was replaced by a handful of young ideologues who called themselves “the Beachhead Team.” “They mainly ran around the building insulting people,” says a former Obama official. “There was a mentality that everything that government does is stupid and bad and the people are stupid and bad,” says another.

Across the federal government the Trump people weren’t anywhere to be found. Between the election and the inauguration not a single Trump representative set foot inside the Department of Agriculture, for example. The Department of Agriculture has employees or contractors in every county in the United States, and the Trump people seemed simply to be ignoring the place. Where they did turn up inside the federal government, they appeared confused and unprepared. A small group attended a briefing at the State Department, for instance, only to learn that the briefings they needed to hear were classified. None of the Trump people had security clearance—or, for that matter, any experience in foreign policy—and so they weren’t allowed to receive an education.

The one concrete action the Trump transition team took before Inauguration Day was to clear the D.O.E. and other federal agencies of people appointed by Obama. This was a loss. A lunch or two with the chief financial officer might have alerted the new administration to some of the terrifying risks they were leaving essentially unmanaged. Roughly half of the D.O.E.’s annual budget is spent on maintaining and guarding our nuclear arsenal, for instance. Two billion of that goes to hunting down weapons-grade plutonium and uranium at loose in the world so that it doesn’t fall into the hands of terrorists. In just the past eight years the D.O.E.’s National Nuclear Security Administration has collected enough material to make 160 nuclear bombs. The department trains every international atomic-energy inspector; if nuclear power plants around the world are not producing weapons-grade material on the sly by reprocessing spent fuel rods and recovering plutonium, it’s because of these people.

-Michael Lewis. Entire article in September's "Vanity Fair".

[Rockyrd]

How to stop a virus, how to take a census, how to determine if some foreign country is seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon or if North Korean missiles can reach Kansas City: these are enduring technical problems. The people appointed by a newly elected president to solve these problems have roughly 75 days to learn from their predecessors. After the inauguration, a lot of deeply knowledgeable people will scatter to the four winds and be forbidden, by federal law, from initiating any contact with their replacements.

A month after the election Thomas Pyle, a former lobbyist for Koch Industries, arrived for a meeting with Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, Deputy Secretary Sherwood-Randall, and Knobloch. Moniz is a nuclear physicist, then on leave from M.I.T., who had served as deputy secretary during the Clinton administration and is widely viewed, even by many Republicans, as understanding and loving the D.O.E. better than any person on earth. Pyle appeared to have no interest in anything he had to say. “He did not seem motivated to spend a lot of time understanding the place,” says Sherwood-Randall. “He didn’t bring a pencil or a piece of paper. He didn’t ask questions. He spent an hour. That was it. He never asked to meet with us again.”

Pyle then vanished from the scene. He was replaced by a handful of young ideologues who called themselves “the Beachhead Team.” “They mainly ran around the building insulting people,” says a former Obama official. “There was a mentality that everything that government does is stupid and bad and the people are stupid and bad,” says another.

Across the federal government the Trump people weren’t anywhere to be found. Between the election and the inauguration not a single Trump representative set foot inside the Department of Agriculture, for example. The Department of Agriculture has employees or contractors in every county in the United States, and the Trump people seemed simply to be ignoring the place. Where they did turn up inside the federal government, they appeared confused and unprepared. A small group attended a briefing at the State Department, for instance, only to learn that the briefings they needed to hear were classified. None of the Trump people had security clearance—or, for that matter, any experience in foreign policy—and so they weren’t allowed to receive an education.

The one concrete action the Trump transition team took before Inauguration Day was to clear the D.O.E. and other federal agencies of people appointed by Obama. This was a loss. A lunch or two with the chief financial officer might have alerted the new administration to some of the terrifying risks they were leaving essentially unmanaged. Roughly half of the D.O.E.’s annual budget is spent on maintaining and guarding our nuclear arsenal, for instance. Two billion of that goes to hunting down weapons-grade plutonium and uranium at loose in the world so that it doesn’t fall into the hands of terrorists. In just the past eight years the D.O.E.’s National Nuclear Security Administration has collected enough material to make 160 nuclear bombs. The department trains every international atomic-energy inspector; if nuclear power plants around the world are not producing weapons-grade material on the sly by reprocessing spent fuel rods and recovering plutonium, it’s because of these people.

Not surprising at all....

"Part of the problem stems from the Trump administration’s criteria for hiring staffers and top political appointees. Potential candidates must be loyal to the administration and not have spoken harshly about the president during the campaign.

That has created a particular problem when it comes to filling national security jobs, because scores of Republican experts, many of whom served in the George W. Bush administration, signed a letter criticizing the future president before the election.

Many experienced Republicans who ordinarily would have vied for middle- and top-level posts under a Republican president also decided to sit out the Trump administration in January, starving the president of choices when it came to picking appointees.

The president himself seems willing to tolerate vacancies indefinitely."

Kelly tries to get empty administration jobs filled fast - POLITICO (http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/15/kelly-trump-administration-jobs-243768)

[Rockyrd]

By the way, this is dated TODAY...

"At the State Department, more than 78 jobs do not have a nominee out of 149 key positions, and 32 countries still don’t have ambassadors in place, according to data kept by the non-partisan Partnership for Public Service.

The Treasury Department has 15 key slots open out of 28 significant Senate confirmed positions as the White House dives into selling tax reform.

Just last week, Treasury announced it would not fill its No. 2 deputy secretary slot after a second candidate dropped out of the running for it.

Kelly’s own former job remains open two and a half months after he moved to the White House, with Trump nominating Kelly’s No. 2 Kirstjen Nielsen this week after other potential nominees were passed over."

Kelly tries to get empty administration jobs filled fast - POLITICO (http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/15/kelly-trump-administration-jobs-243768)

[mellincf]

Not surprising at all....

"Part of the problem stems from the Trump administration’s criteria for hiring staffers and top political appointees. Potential candidates must be loyal to the administration and not have spoken harshly about the president during the campaign.

That has created a particular problem when it comes to filling national security jobs, because scores of Republican experts, many of whom served in the George W. Bush administration, signed a letter criticizing the future president before the election.

Many experienced Republicans who ordinarily would have vied for middle- and top-level posts under a Republican president also decided to sit out the Trump administration in January, starving the president of choices when it came to picking appointees.

The president himself seems willing to tolerate vacancies indefinitely."

Kelly tries to get empty administration jobs filled fast - POLITICO (http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/15/kelly-trump-administration-jobs-243768)


A POLITICO review of dozens of résumés from political appointees to USDA shows the agency has been stocked with Trump campaign staff and volunteers who in many cases demonstrated little to no experience with federal policy, let alone deep roots in agriculture. But of the 42 résumés POLITICO reviewed, 22 cited Trump campaign experience. And based on their résumés, some of those appointees appear to lack credentials, such as a college degree, required to qualify for higher government salaries.

The theme that emerges is pretty clear: What do you have to do to get an administration job? Work on the campaign.

Also in the ranks of USDA political appointees are the scented-candle company owner; a clerk at AT&T; a Republican National Committee intern; a part-time executive assistant and rental property manager; and a former Washington state senator who mentioned on his résumé that he was the first elected official in his state to back Trump's candidacy.

[billethkid]

Could it be that the bountiful redundancy that exists in Washington creating bloat for all the reasons mentioned.

Nah that would not make for a good solid anti Trump article.

[Rockyrd]

Could it be that the bountiful redundancy that exists in Washington creating bloat for all the reasons mentioned.

Nah that would not make for a good solid anti Trump article.

No, but you would know that if you actually read the links. Actually, it appears the "bloat" is growing BUT,

[graciegirl]

How to stop a virus, how to take a census, how to determine if some foreign country is seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon or if North Korean missiles can reach Kansas City: these are enduring technical problems. The people appointed by a newly elected president to solve these problems have roughly 75 days to learn from their predecessors. After the inauguration, a lot of deeply knowledgeable people will scatter to the four winds and be forbidden, by federal law, from initiating any contact with their replacements.

A month after the election Thomas Pyle, a former lobbyist for Koch Industries, arrived for a meeting with Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, Deputy Secretary Sherwood-Randall, and Knobloch. Moniz is a nuclear physicist, then on leave from M.I.T., who had served as deputy secretary during the Clinton administration and is widely viewed, even by many Republicans, as understanding and loving the D.O.E. better than any person on earth. Pyle appeared to have no interest in anything he had to say. “He did not seem motivated to spend a lot of time understanding the place,” says Sherwood-Randall. “He didn’t bring a pencil or a piece of paper. He didn’t ask questions. He spent an hour. That was it. He never asked to meet with us again.”

Pyle then vanished from the scene. He was replaced by a handful of young ideologues who called themselves “the Beachhead Team.” “They mainly ran around the building insulting people,” says a former Obama official. “There was a mentality that everything that government does is stupid and bad and the people are stupid and bad,” says another.

Across the federal government the Trump people weren’t anywhere to be found. Between the election and the inauguration not a single Trump representative set foot inside the Department of Agriculture, for example. The Department of Agriculture has employees or contractors in every county in the United States, and the Trump people seemed simply to be ignoring the place. Where they did turn up inside the federal government, they appeared confused and unprepared. A small group attended a briefing at the State Department, for instance, only to learn that the briefings they needed to hear were classified. None of the Trump people had security clearance—or, for that matter, any experience in foreign policy—and so they weren’t allowed to receive an education.

The one concrete action the Trump transition team took before Inauguration Day was to clear the D.O.E. and other federal agencies of people appointed by Obama. This was a loss. A lunch or two with the chief financial officer might have alerted the new administration to some of the terrifying risks they were leaving essentially unmanaged. Roughly half of the D.O.E.’s annual budget is spent on maintaining and guarding our nuclear arsenal, for instance. Two billion of that goes to hunting down weapons-grade plutonium and uranium at loose in the world so that it doesn’t fall into the hands of terrorists. In just the past eight years the D.O.E.’s National Nuclear Security Administration has collected enough material to make 160 nuclear bombs. The department trains every international atomic-energy inspector; if nuclear power plants around the world are not producing weapons-grade material on the sly by reprocessing spent fuel rods and recovering plutonium, it’s because of these people.

-Michael Lewis. Entire article in September's "Vanity Fair".


Link don't paste. Your sourcing is often questionable.

[Wiotte]

Link don't paste. Your sourcing is often questionable.



You mean like this ? Lol

These Are The 10 Most Redneck Cities In Ohio - RoadSnacks (https://www.roadsnacks.net/these-are-the-10-most-redneck-cities-in-ohio/)


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[Rockyrd]

Link don't paste. Your sourcing is often questionable.

Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House | Vanity Fair (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis)

Perhaps you should learn how to find these.

[graciegirl]

You mean like this ? Lol

These Are The 10 Most Redneck Cities In Ohio - RoadSnacks (https://www.roadsnacks.net/these-are-the-10-most-redneck-cities-in-ohio/)


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Wiley. Your mom dresses you funny.

[Wiotte]

Wiley. Your mom dresses you funny.



Lol


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[rubicon]

i did not see one post that addressed the jittery pokery of the democrats who have intentionally misled with phony objections and questions on many of Trumps picks.

the obvious intent is another means of obstructing .

and the same suspects keeps popping up. they are called the press, the Establishment and the Democrats such as Obama who is leading the charge. its all about stopping Trump by hook or crook. Its a end justifies the means at any costs. Its morally wrong depraved unintelligent

Personal Best Regards:

[Rockyrd]

i did not see one post that addressed the jittery pokery of the democrats who have intentionally misled with phony objections and questions on many of Trumps picks.

the obvious intent is another means of obstructing .

and the same suspects keeps popping up. they are called the press, the Establishment and the Democrats such as Obama who is leading the charge. its all about stopping Trump by hook or crook. Its a end justifies the means at any costs. Its morally wrong depraved unintelligent

Personal Best Regards:

Did you read the link at all, or do you just randomly jump the gun.

They are not even nominating anyone. You always go for the throat with no knowledge

[mellincf]

Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House | Vanity Fair (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis)

Perhaps you should learn how to find these. Thanks for the link. Since I didn't POST a link, I don't know why the poster said my links don't work...but I did source my information, as you note.

[mellincf]

i did not see one post that addressed the jittery pokery of the democrats who have intentionally misled with phony objections and questions on many of Trumps picks.

the obvious intent is another means of obstructing .

and the same suspects keeps popping up. they are called the press, the Establishment and the Democrats such as Obama who is leading the charge. its all about stopping Trump by hook or crook. Its a end justifies the means at any costs. Its morally wrong depraved unintelligent

Personal Best Regards: Goodness me, it sounds like the whole world is against Trump. Wait...they are. Except for 30% of the Americans who are Fox watchers and Limbaugh listeners.

[Rockyrd]

Thanks for the link. Since I didn't POST a link, I don't know why the poster said my links don't work...but I did source my information, as you note.

Graciegirl will criticize you or me, and she seems to be a bit softer now with Coldnomore and let's guess the reason.

My guess based on some remarks is that if you supply factual information you are an outsider.

She, Rubicon, and a few others are totally blind to truth. They have declared their loyalty to Trump way before our country.

If you criticize Trump with no link, then you are attacked as having some sort of syndrome. NEVER do they provide a response with reason, just their normal hate.

If you criticize Trump with a valid link, first be aware, they will not read it. I have been criticized for copy and paste of too much length, and today Graci, in speaking ANOUT me, said I do not provide enough. I suppose the link might confuse her. It is there for you to read IF YOU EVEN CARE..

Also, if you provide a link you will be hit with the standard, the media lies and it was made up. Amazing stuff when you link to quotes or videos that The think the media simply just makes it up.

Then there is the old standby...OBama and Clinton, never with facts again, and most times IF they reference anything, it will be years old.

Bottom line is they have sold OUT on our country and bought IN to lies. That simple.

[ColdNoMore]

Graciegirl will criticize you or me, and she seems to be a bit softer now with Coldnomore and let's guess the reason.

My guess based on some remarks is that if you supply factual information you are an outsider.

She, Rubicon, and a few others are totally blind to truth. They have declared their loyalty to Trump way before our country.

If you criticize Trump with no link, then you are attacked as having some sort of syndrome. NEVER do they provide a response with reason, just their normal hate.

If you criticize Trump with a valid link, first be aware, they will not read it. I have been criticized for copy and paste of too much length, and today Graci, in speaking ANOUT me, said I do not provide enough. I suppose the link might confuse her. It is there for you to read IF YOU EVEN CARE..

Also, if you provide a link you will be hit with the standard, the media lies and it was made up. Amazing stuff when you link to quotes or videos that The think the media simply just makes it up.

Then there is the old standby...OBama and Clinton, never with facts again, and most times IF they reference anything, it will be years old.

Bottom line is they have sold OUT on our country and bought IN to lies. That simple.

That's only because she now has me on ignore (and I haven't been posting as much). :D


She admitted to being so annoyed at me telling the truth about her passive-aggressive lying and blind Trump loyalty, I now have the pleasure of knowing...that I'm living in her head rent free. :1rotfl:

Keep doing what you're doing by pointing out her lies, hypocrisy, disgusting and substantial ugly underbelly and you will soon too...be one of the privileged. :thumbup:



Peekaboo Twit...am I still on your ignore?

[Rockyrd]

That's only because she now has me on ignore (and I haven't been posting as much). :D


She admitted to being so annoyed at me telling the truth about her passive-aggressive lying and blind Trump loyalty, I now have the pleasure of knowing...that I'm living in her head rent free. :1rotfl:

Keep doing what you're doing by pointing out her lies, hypocrisy, disgusting and substantial ugly underbelly and you will soon too...be one of the privileged. :thumbup:



Peekaboo Twit...am I still on your ignore?


Oh, I am on ignore, been pschoanalyzed, she also wonders about my life, so today I reported what my wife and I did and advised her my plans for this evening.

I, frankly, am surprised...she is now a total hypocrite, unamerican troll, who has sold out completely. She has never ever ever done anything but troll, OR tell Rubicon what a wise man he is, or giggle with her foul mouthed friends.

She always preaches on the main board...she knows all, but they are twinged with how honorable and honest she is....hypocrite central

[ColdNoMore]

Oh, I am on ignore, been pschoanalyzed, she also wonders about my life, so today I reported what my wife and I did and advised her my plans for this evening.

I, frankly, am surprised...she is now a total hypocrite, unamerican troll, who has sold out completely. She has never ever ever done anything but troll, OR tell Rubicon what a wise man he is, or giggle with her foul mouthed friends.

She always preaches on the main board...she knows all, but they are twinged with how honorable and honest she is....hypocrite central

Shortly after I joined here, I quickly determined...what a passive-aggressive twit she was.

I mean cripes, the last I looked she has supposedly 600+ 'friends'...JUST here on TOTV. :oops:

That is indicative of such a massive sense of insecurity, only professionals could ever hope to begin the long task...of figuring out why. :ohdear:

Which, if you think about it, makes perfect sense on why she is such a staunch Trump supporter and his disgusting words/deeds...as they share that massive personality defect. :ho: