Posted on 01/21/2021 2:09:27 AM PST by blueplum
The Trump-installed General Counsel of the National Security Agency has been put on administrative leave a day after starting the role, due to a Department of Defense inspector general probe, CNN reported. Michael Ellis's installation just before President Joe Biden took office garnered criticism...
...Ellis's appointment came shortly after President-elect Joe Biden was projected to win the 2020 election in November. During that same month, the Washington Post reported that Democratic Sens. Mark Warner and Jack Reed asked the Pentagon's inspector general to investigate Ellis's appointment on the grounds of "improper political influence."
"...press accounts of White House involvement create a perception that political influence or considerations may have played an undue role in a merit-based civil service selection process," Warner and Reed wrote in a letter in November, CNN reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Transition bump for later.....
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