Posted on 08/10/2017 9:31:25 AM PDT by ifinnegan
WASHINGTON — Nearly all of the Obama administration’s science staff has departed the White House since January, and the Trump administration has moved slowly to replace them. In the meantime, however, an unofficial shadow office, stocked with Obama loyalists, is quietly at work.
The network, described to STAT by officials from the previous administration who are involved, is informal yet organized, allowing for a far-reaching if largely inconspicuous effort to continue advocating for the Obama science agenda.
Participants have provided counsel to Democratic lawmakers and their staffs on Capitol Hill, and they have held group-wide strategy sessions much in the same fashion as they did when they worked out of a fourth-floor wing in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House.
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On a practical level, there are ethical and legal restrictions over what former science officials can do. And in a city where former White House staffers can easily fall into the trope of an oppositional shill for an out-of-power boss, many have also been wary of making too big a splash.
“I’ve tried to keep a low profile in terms of my volunteer policy work,” said one former OSTP official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “If I’m advocating for something as a former Obama official, it might not be particularly effective.”
The conference calls have occasionally included a few Obama-era OSTP staffers who, at the time, were still working at the White House. Participants on the calls said those staffers were particularly careful about if and when they spoke.
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It comes from the liberals and is meant to make the leftists feel better.
It shows the extent of the swamp and the stink.
Is that by Fry the Science Guy?
I just don’t get why these people are still there...
FIRE THEM.
Otherwise its SSDD
I think they mean the obama PSEUDO-science agenda. You know the FAKE “science” ... the FRAUD “science” ... the FAIRY TALE MAKE-BELIEVE PRETEND “science” ...
Democrats, progressives, socialists, communists or whatever title they choose never rest. They plot, scheme, and think of ways to advance their agenda 24/7/365. Conservatives, pfffft ! I guess they are to busy working and making money.
bkmk
The Obama bull$hit agenda.
No matter how much the hate it and how much their position out, scientists do not make policy.
“Democrats, progressives, socialists, communists or whatever title they choose never rest................”
My tagline for many years perhaps since my beginning with FR.
Apparently the swamp is still not drained.
Why are nobama hold-overs still on the gvt (our) payroll?
I’m fine with them creating a shadow network. But do it on their money, not mine.
How do you define TREASON????? Worse, why hasn’t that charge been laid upon the entire bunch? Looks what is happening to MS-13 gangers......
Let’s do counterintel. Perhaps Trump is leaving these rhodents in the WH to keep tabs on what the Obamaites will try next.
Nothing like good, old partisan science.
Loral arms technology exports lead to $20 million government fine
I remember Loral.
One of the companies Clinton let sell sensitive technology to China.
FR was all over that, back in the day.
Yep. We remember all of that. And now we are having to deal with N Korea and their nukes and their guidance systems.
Yes. Exactly right. And miniature warheads etc...
China proliferation allowed Pakistan, Iran and N. Korea to have their programs.
It is part of China’s asymmetric strategy.
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