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Omarosa Should Face Charges
On Sunday morning, former White House official and reality star Omarosa dropped a bombshell:
This is crazy: Omarosa secretly recorded Chief of Staff John Kelly IN THE SITUATION ROOM pic.twitter.com/08AWjEpqJb
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) August 12, 2018
I have a lot of questions about this recording, and here they are, in no particular order:
- What was she even doing in the Situation Room?
- Does anyone know what her job actually was? (This is a great profile on her time in the White House)
- This is illegal, right? There is no way this is not illegal.
- Why would she admit to breaking federal law on Meet the Press in order to sell copies of her book?
- How did she have a recording device in the room?
- If she used a cell phone, do we know if foreign governments or organizations were able to listen in as well?
- Who is in charge of security for the Situation Room? Will they face consequences for this breach?
- Is there any way to verify this was indeed recorded in the Situation Room?
- Will everyone (justifiably) upset about the casual disregard Hillary Clinton showed for security with her email server demand an inquiry?
This is an incredibly troubling sign from a White House marked by disarray and disorganization. It’s been hoped that despite the constant upheaval, there are officials within the military and security establishment upholding standards to ensure something like this incident never takes place. This isn’t a reality show, and there were supposed to be individuals (even if they aren’t the President and his staff) who were responsible for maintaining a level of professionalism required of the executive branch.
A very clear message needs to be sent in response to this announcement: Heads should roll among those responsible for staffing and security the White House and Situation Room, and charges should be filed against Omarosa. The White House isn’t a reality show, and you don’t get to flagrantly break federal law in order to sell a few more copies of a book.
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Ask Diane Feinstein and get back to me with your additionally appropriate outrage.
Moderator Note:
Suspicions of other members' bad faith are usually better left unsaid.Who here is defending Diane Feinstein?
This is such bad faith argument.Your free to speculate that all you want, although it’s completely irrelevant to this dicsucssion, but I am more worried about what is happening in the White House since that is where the important meetings are occurring and possible recordings by rogue staff would be a problem and speaks to the administration’s, and its leader’s, competence. Also I would assume most servers with data would be at or near to the White House.
Indeed that would seem like something against the law. And even more so it would speak to the integrity and competency of the President if he knew of it and did not move the Justice Department to prosecute said crimes. Such a President would be unjust to say the least.
No one, and I didn’t claim they were, which makes your “bad faith argument” comment in even worse faith.
I’m talking about consistency of complaints, which should be self-evident. If there’s concern about foreign spies in government, there’s an actual case of a foreign spy working in our government for 20 years, versus conjecture incautiously crafted by Cole.
Why would you expect someone to talk about Diane Feinstein in a thread not related to that particular piece of news?
Because someone speculated about “one has to wonder how many foreign spies are doing far worse”?
And it was just reported recently that Senator Feinstein, who is a member of the select committee on Intelligence, had a foreign spy on her staff – in her *car* – for 20 years?
That was a comment on the security of the White House, I don’t see the need to comment on terrible Democratic senators when discussing the President. Feinsteins poor security has nothing to do with Trumps terrible management skills.
So you’re not worried about spies generally, you’re just worried about spies in the White House. The select Intelligence committee probably doesn’t really see anything important anyway…
Yes, that’s clearly what I was saying… What the hell is wrong with you?
How many is plenty, and does it count if the traitor gets a free sex change?
Except for a bachelor’s in broadcast journalism, a master’s degree, experience working for VP Gore, working as Trump’s black outreach officer during his campaign.
Look, I’m mad at her too, but let’s not be dishonest with regard to her qualifications – she was qualified for the position she held.
I would add that people who get too hung up on qualifications give aid and comfort to the Yalie-Harvardial complex that has far too much power in our country.
This can’t be said enough.
Yeah and I’m sure Jared and Ivanka have a long list of credentials too.
But let’s not pretend they don’t owe their position to their personal relationship with Donald Trump.
Just like Valerie Jarrett and Obama. Presidents get to pick who they take advice from.
Personal relationships matter when choosing high-level political advisers?
I’m shocked, just shocked!
Jamie, if we’re in a thread about someone not paying enough attention to security in the White House, yet in a second, equal branch of government, they’re also not paying enough attention to security, and how that’s a double standard, how is that now not allowed as part of the conversation?
And who made you thread cop?
And Obama was rightly castigated by conservatives for appointing Jarrett.
It’s a valid discussion but not in this thread. It’s pure whataboutism trying to paint your interlocutor into some sort of corner base on nothing but bad faith.
Well, yeah. Jarrett is a good example because she and Obama were on that reality show together.
Again, it was an awful hire because Omarosa’s entire ‘brand’ was built on being exactly who she’s been over the past several days, in terms of her book and her allegations against Trump. If there was any ‘reality’ to the reality show aspect of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’, you don’t hire someone who became famous for her double-dealing and backstabbing, because she might do that both at her job in the White House and then to you, if you fire her from her job at the White House (in a way, Omarosa is like Trump in terms of being pretty well bulletproof from bad publicity — she’s developed her name brand on the basis of being a bad person, so even something like her walkout from the Today Show interview on Tuesday isn’t going to change anyone’s opinion of her — the surprise would be if she wasn’t the character she played on TV).
Just FYI – reality shows aren’t real. They have writers.
Chicago politics isn’t a reality show?
No, but it should be.
It is for those poor folks who get shot each weekend.
Yes. But it does help to have the personality to fit the character role, so you’re not requiring the reality stars to do all that much acting. Which appears to be the case with Omarosa.