Cybersecurity expert's appointment to West Point pulled ... by Laura Loomer?

Are these articles posted anywhere else? It's a paywall.

 

Ya, that's a great article.

Just illustrative of the fact that Trump doesn't give a crap about appointing the best people to serve Americans - he just wants the best people to serve his criminal interests.

But we know all that already, so this is no surprise. The only surprise is that Nor is it a surprise that so many MAGAphiles don't care about him doing our country such disservice.

 

I hate Loomer with a passion.

I think Democrats would have a better leg to stand on here if Biden had not done the same think to Trump appointments to military academies back in 2021.

 

Sane people should prolly just stand on the same leg.

Except not sure who is analogous to Loomer, in any lane. This is a person you wouldn’t give your keys to to move your car over a spot.

 

They were not teaching positions. However, there are people that have a CV just as good as Jen’s that can teach this subject that were not political appointees. I’ve had a lot of service academy grads in this field end up working for me in the past and I don’t need them to do high level staffing work. I need them to be technically capable and that is not something Jen really is any more.

Just to give some context, when you transition from a GS to a political appointees, you have to pick a side. Once you have done that, you have sealed your fate. It is extremely rare to see a high profile political appointees serve in that capacity across different political administrations. Bob Gates is probably the last one I can recall. Jen knew that and decided to make the jump.

In terms of Jen’s technical knowledge, it is all completely dated at this point. Back in 2013, I was working at MARFORCYBER with one of best technical operators in the DoD. When Gen Alexander found out we were taking this person to Germany for a conference, he told a group of 0-4 to 0-6, that in anything happened on the flight it was our job to make sure this Chief Warrant officer survived, the rest of us he could replace. I spoke with that person the other day and he said he is technically dated at this point. There are a ton of folks at Ft. Meade that would be great in this position and would probably love to not have to fight traffic on the BW parkway to get into work.

Jen is not going to be hurting. I’m sure there are tons of boards that are going to be lining up to ask her to serve on them.

 

Instead of hating Laura loomer you should hate the people in the WH that listen to her. They are who give her words power

 

Trust me, I do. I’m still mad about losing our last CG at USCYBERCOM.

 

You are correct but Dan Driscoll cannot feel a political room, apparently. I could have told you her appointment was going to go over like a led balloon just based off her time at CISA.

 

She was a Biden political appointee when she took the CISA Director job.

 

Let's not forget that Gen. Tim Haugh the former head of NSA and Cyber Command was also fired as the result of intercession by Laura Loomer. Jen Easterling wasn't fired based on her credentials she was fired based on Loomer's perception that anyone who held a responsible position under the previous administration was or could be disloyal to Trump. Considering that Gen. Haugh was fired for the same reason and under similar circumstances do you really think that Loomer should be playing the role that she apparently does as one of Trump's principle advisors on personnel matters?
Gen. Timothy Haugh, head of NSA and Cyber Command, is fired

 

H4 is who I was referencing in post #10 on this thread. Loomer is an idiot and should never be listened to. I think the reason Trump does is ahe went after DeSantis like an insane person during the primary.

 

I love it when "cancel culture" bites back.

 

I tend to agree. One of the many indicators of the dysfunctional governance of Trump is his reliance on a woman who was essentially a social media influencer to make critical personnel decisions. It's probably not all that surprising considering that Loomer essentially reinforces Trump's obsession with placing loyalty over competence and norms as his primary criteria for selecting selecting and/or retaining senior officials.

 

Jen was in uniform when she worked at the NSC, she was not a political appointee while she was there. When she decided to take a political appointee position, she did it with a Democratic Administration, making her a Democrat. This appointment required the Secretary of the Army signing off on it, which means it is a political appointment since the Secretary of the Army is a politically appointed position. A Democrat should not have been appointed under a Republican Administration and that goes other way as well.

Whether you agree with them or not, Republicans look at Jen as toxic based on her time as the head of CISA. I'm not sure what Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll, thought was when he approved this nomination (or if he even looked at it when he signed it) but it was never going to fly once it became public. This would be like nominating Alexander Vindman to a teaching post at West Point.

I do not like that it was Loomer that made this public but once it became public, the end result was inevitable. This appointment should have not been approved to begin with.