Trump is removing US Secret Service director
Source: CNN
United States Secret Service director Randolph "Tex" Alles is being removed from his position, multiple administration officials tell CNN.
President Donald Trump instructed his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to fire Alles. Alles remains in his position as of now but has been asked to leave.
The Secret Service director reports directly to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen, who resigned on Sunday amid growing pressure from the President. The director oversees the Secret Service's work on both protection and investigations.
"There is a near-systematic purge happening at the nation's second-largest national security agency," one senior administration official says.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/08/politics/randolph-tex-alles-secret-service-director/index.html
Guessing it's due to SS criticizing the "open door" policy at Mar-a-Lago.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,446 posts)Or perhaps dekulakization.
A parade under the banners "We will liquidate the kulaks as a class" and "All to the struggle against the wreckers of agriculture".
Location: Soviet Union
Date: 19171933
Attack type: Classicide, mass murder, deportation, starvation
Deaths: Estimates from 530,000600,000 to 5,000,000
Perpetrators: Secret police of the Soviet Union
Dekulakization (Russian: раскулачивание, raskulachivanie; Ukrainian: розкуркулення, rozkurkulennia) was the Soviet campaign of political repressions, including arrests, deportations, and executions of millions of prosperous peasants and their families in the 19291932 period of the First five-year plan. To facilitate the expropriations of farmland, the Soviet government portrayed kulaks as class enemies of the USSR.
More than 1.8 million peasants were deported in 19301931. The campaign had the stated purpose of fighting counter-revolution and of building socialism in the countryside. This policy, carried out simultaneously with collectivization in the Soviet Union, effectively brought all agriculture and all the peasants in Soviet Russia under state control.
Hunger, disease and mass executions during dekulakization led to at least 530,000 to 600,000 deaths from 1929 to 1933, though higher estimates also exist, with historian Robert Conquest estimating that as many as five million people may have died. The results soon became known outside the Soviet Union.
Dekulakization in 19171923
In November 1917, at a meeting of delegates of the committees of poor peasants, Lenin announced a new policy to eliminate supposedly wealthy Soviet peasants, known as "kulaks": "If the kulaks remain untouched, if we don't defeat the freeloaders, the czar and the capitalist will inevitably return." In July 1918, "Committees of the Poor" were created to represent poor peasants, which played an important role in the struggle against the kulaks, and led the process of redistribution of confiscated lands and inventory, food surpluses from the kulaks. This launched the beginning of a great crusade against grain speculators and kulaks. Before being dismissed in December 1918, the Committees had confiscated 50 million hectares of kulak land.
Dekulakization under Stalin
Joseph Stalin announced the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class" on 27 December 1929. Stalin had said: "Now we have the opportunity to carry out a resolute offensive against the kulaks, break their resistance, eliminate them as a class and replace their production with the production of kolkhozes and sovkhozes." The Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party formalized the decision in a resolution titled "On measures for the elimination of kulak households in districts of comprehensive collectivization" on 30 January 1930. All kulaks were assigned to one of three categories:
1. Those to be shot or imprisoned as decided by the local secret political police
2. Those to be sent to Siberia, the North, the Urals or Kazakhstan, after confiscation of their property
3. Those to be evicted from their houses and used in labor colonies within their own districts
An OGPU secret-police functionary, Yefim Yevdokimov (18911939), played a major role in organizing and supervising the round-up of peasants and the mass executions.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)How are they going to easily bribe Trump and his family?
Fred Sandman
(43 posts)notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)to go in there and hack into the system
Leith
(7,809 posts)here it is. Who the hell can guess what he is thinking?
tymorial
(3,433 posts)He is thinking that he will do whatever the hell he wants and if you disagree, you are fired.
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)Makes sense to me.
Hestia
(3,818 posts)running the entire federal government. He needs to go! He is the Original Teabagger that helped to start the whole movement with Kock Bros and Americans For (Stealing Our) Prosperity.
All of these roads lead back to Mulvaney
Now, I am not saying to hack his life or anything, but I sure wouldn't be sad if he was hacked/doxxed/whatever and he has to leave.
Just saying...
KPN
(15,645 posts)machoneman
(4,007 posts)in reply to a.) Ivanka's rapid trademark approvals b.) cash the Chinese gave to Trump c.) returning a favor to them for who knows what.
Maybe all three?
What a bonkers place to work in, eh?
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 8, 2019, 03:50 PM - Edit history (1)
That weasely little incel seems to be behind most of Trump's "purges."
BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)He's become like the arrogant Col. Chang from Star Trek VI -
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)ChicagoRonin
(630 posts)Mark my words
Quemado
(1,262 posts)especially during the 1920's:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purges_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,446 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)johnnyfins
(823 posts)johnnyfins
(823 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)bluestarone
(16,940 posts)Hekate
(90,686 posts)Right.
Gods help us all.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)specifically.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)He's blaming them, I guess. And as usual, probably Trump himself is to blame. You pays your money, you gets to come in!
Brother Buzz
(36,433 posts)Trump is preemptively removing him to put the kibosh on the investigation on the incident; he fears the lax accessibility protocol to the president will tightened, and even worse, a lists of of shady characters the orange one has met may come to light.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I have no idea what you mean. If you mean that firing people will keep his secrets, just the opposite is true. If they talk at all (and SS won't talk), it'd be after being removed from detail. But SS guys don't reveal secrets.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,446 posts)By Priscilla Alvarez, Jake Tapper and Abby Phillip, CNN
Updated 12:17 PM ET, Mon April 8, 2019
Washington (CNN)--White House senior adviser Stephen Miller wants to make sure that outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is only the first of a string of senior officials headed out the door.
Trump administration officials say that Miller, who played key a role in Nielsen's ouster, also wants the President to dismiss the director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Lee Cissna, and the department's general counsel, John Mitnick.
A senior administration official also said that under the law, DHS Under Secretary of Management Claire Grady, the current acting deputy secretary, is next in line of succession to be acting secretary. That means there are questions as to whether she will need to be fired as well in order to make Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan the acting DHS secretary, as Trump tweeted Sunday night.
Miller's heightened influence within the West Wing has been aided by the President, who recently told aides in an Oval Office meeting that Miller was in charge of all immigration and border related issues in the White House, according to a person familiar with the meeting.
....
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)harming the illegals to the highest level. Where have I read something similar? Oh right, WW2.
KPN
(15,645 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)US government !!!
Think Stalin, et al....
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)It's indeed a sign that Trump does not appoint "the best of people" to high level positions and democrats would be wise to pound that point home.
From a business perspective, which Trump claims as his strong suit, it's like a CEO naming his board then repeatedly firing them one at a time for gross incompetence. The core problem is looking right at him from the mirror every day while he does his comb over.
What a bumbling boob we have as president.
oldsoftie
(12,536 posts)murielm99
(30,741 posts)I just finished reading the CNN article a second before I came in. The 'purge' comments make me see him as even more of a madman than usual.
CaptainTruth
(6,591 posts)Everywhere I look I see creeping fascism.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)NNYCDN51
(58 posts)Keep On Thinking Free
vlyons
(10,252 posts)I wouldn't put it past him.
Thekaspervote
(32,767 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,292 posts)He will find out the hard way that the Secret Service is not a good place to make this mistake.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)It just may not LOOK like it.
This does NOT bode well....
courts
secret service
HHS
any department that has anything to do with authoritarian control of the US
DirtEdonE
(1,220 posts)They're consolidating power as if they already have the 2020 election in the bag.
"russia, if you're listening"
- donald j trump
SHRED
(28,136 posts)...his Chinese spy ring was broken up?
Harker
(14,018 posts)A personal invitee has been inconvenienced.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)He's all over the map without a clue what to do or how to do it. Simply whatever satisfies his jumbo-sized vanity. Fucking pathetic.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)We need the damn Mueller report, now!
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Just part of the systematic dismantling of the structure of the Country.
We dont have the Senate so this behavior will be endorsed and tolerated and once endorsed considered the new norm. The Senate is already dead as a deliberative body.
panader0
(25,816 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)firing of some Travel Office staff?
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)Glad they kept us aware of the impact on our national security, you know, not the little things like Homeland Security and Secret Service. Wow, guess we dodged a bullet there!
Thanks, Republicans!!!! (No, Obama, you don't get any credit for this, unless the Repugs decide to blame you!)
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Imagine if the Clinton Admin had fired the head of the Secret Service, back then.
catbyte
(34,386 posts)for that vile POS.
Jedi Guy
(3,190 posts)If it were me, I'd accidentally-on-purpose trip and fall when I went to jump in front of him. Oopsie.
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)jayschool2013
(2,312 posts)How about "Rhymes with Tucker" Carlson?
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)Working is for suckers.
lostnfound
(16,179 posts)mahina
(17,656 posts)FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)... and the Secret Service guys know where all the bodies are buried.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,446 posts)The president had soured on [the Secret Service director] a while ago, even making fun of his looks, calling him Dumbo because of his ears, two officials said.
Link to tweet
mahina
(17,656 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)He's got all the qualities Fat Donnie looks for in a leader. He looks good on television, he's got good ratings (don't tell DT the show's no longer on), he's already in the Secret Service, and he's white.
Just don't let him know the show was resurrected as a movie with James West played by a black man...
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)to be stumpys new head of security...or was it antolinski?..
majdrfrtim
(317 posts)Asking for a friend.
/s