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Obama Allies Working to Undermine Trump’s National Security Team
Behind-the-scenes move to hamstring Trump national security apparatus
There is evidence Obama's outgoing administration took steps to complicate and delay the building of Trump's new team, according to one veteran foreign policy insider who has been in close contact with Trumps' national security transition team.
"Something strange is going on," the source, who is not authorized to speak on the record, said. "The Trump folks keep loading up accounts and looking at specific jobs, and they're not finding anything like what should be there. It's like the Obama national security team went out of their way to cripple the transition on the way out."
A senior congressional aide familiar with the efforts to hold up Pompeo's confirmation vote told the Free Beacon that Democrats are playing politics with America's national security.
(January 21, 2017) http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-allies-working-undermine-trumps-national-security-team/