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Trump Team Ignores Ethics Office

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As a journalist, I always believed in reporting news on the basis of importance to the public. The unit of measurement was simple, I had but two questions for any story. How many people does this issue affect and how significant is the effect? Stories that affected a lot of people in a very significant way always gained prominence. Even if the effect is emotional rather than material it is still important. For example, if a story causes a national mood depression and people quit buying that’s a major story.

All of the above is an introduction to a huge story that has been virtually ignored by the news media. It’s about ethics and the new trump administration.

We are about to enter into a rash of U.S. Senate hearings on the confirmation ofsenate-hearings President-Elect Donald Trump’s nominees to run the Government agencies he oversees. These nominees must be vetted…

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How Flynn isn’t helping Trump on Russia

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“President-elect Donald Trump’s Russia troubles perfectly encapsulate this phenomenon. The failure of his designated national security adviser, Mike Flynn, to adequately prepare Trump to anticipate devastating intelligence findings about Russia (which Trump did not dare criticize directly) and, more generally, to project strength in his approach to Russia have severely damaged Trump’s image as a competent, resolute commander in chief.”

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“The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies”
A book by Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn and Michael Ledeen

“Late in the presidential race, Donald Trump warned that his opponent would start a new world war. “You’re going to end up in World War III over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton,” he told Reuters.

As it turns out, there was no need to worry about Clinton’s hawkishness. The next world war is already here. It’s a religious war. And the United States is losing.”

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