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The Swamp, in the process of being drained, is running short of brains. This is how this how a legally ignorant shit head was allowed to write a legal opinion that was bought lock stock and barrel by other dumb shit heads in the media, the left, and the Democrat party:
GAO Claim That DHS Secretary Is Illegal Is Riddled With Legal, Factual Errors
August 17, 2020 By Mollie Hemingway
A Government Accountability Office report issued Friday, which attacked the Department of Homeland Security, was written by a partisan Democrat with no legal experience, ignored key facts, and doesn’t have the legal authority to dictate the agency’s succession orders, according to a Monday response from the department. The GAO report led to headlines suggesting that Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli were illegally appointed.
“The GAO’s conclusions are baseless and baffling,” wrote Chad Mizelle, who performs the duties of general counsel at Homeland Security, in a blistering six-page response requesting GAO immediately rescind its report.
The report was released 80 days before the November elections — some 274 days after congressional Democrats asked GAO to look into the matter. While GAO claimed the alleged illegality of Wolf’s appointment was “clear,” it took the agency more than nine months to make that finding. A junior GAO staffer told DHS employees in an Aug. 14 phone call that he was the “author” of the report, which was officially signed by GAO General Counsel Thomas Armstrong. The junior staffer previously worked on a Democratic campaign and the partisan Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee, according to Mizelle.
“It should have been easy to find a more seasoned attorney (whose past political work would not have created even the appearance of impropriety) among the GAO’s 3,000 employees,” Mizelle said.
The rest of the GAO Obituary here:
https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/1...illegal-is-riddled-with-legal-factual-errors/
GAO Claim That DHS Secretary Is Illegal Is Riddled With Legal, Factual Errors
August 17, 2020 By Mollie Hemingway
A Government Accountability Office report issued Friday, which attacked the Department of Homeland Security, was written by a partisan Democrat with no legal experience, ignored key facts, and doesn’t have the legal authority to dictate the agency’s succession orders, according to a Monday response from the department. The GAO report led to headlines suggesting that Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli were illegally appointed.
“The GAO’s conclusions are baseless and baffling,” wrote Chad Mizelle, who performs the duties of general counsel at Homeland Security, in a blistering six-page response requesting GAO immediately rescind its report.
The report was released 80 days before the November elections — some 274 days after congressional Democrats asked GAO to look into the matter. While GAO claimed the alleged illegality of Wolf’s appointment was “clear,” it took the agency more than nine months to make that finding. A junior GAO staffer told DHS employees in an Aug. 14 phone call that he was the “author” of the report, which was officially signed by GAO General Counsel Thomas Armstrong. The junior staffer previously worked on a Democratic campaign and the partisan Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee, according to Mizelle.
“It should have been easy to find a more seasoned attorney (whose past political work would not have created even the appearance of impropriety) among the GAO’s 3,000 employees,” Mizelle said.
The rest of the GAO Obituary here:
https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/1...illegal-is-riddled-with-legal-factual-errors/
