Chad Wolf To Resign At Midnight As DHS Jump Starts Biden Inauguration Prep

By artappraiser on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 6:08am |

Chad Wolf To Resign At Midnight As DHS Jump Starts Biden Inauguration Prep https://t.co/UFqc6yvjkE via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 11, 2021

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chad-wolf-to-resign-at-midnight-as-dhs-jump-starts-biden-inauguration-prep

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I think folks are getting the Chad Wolf story wrong: He didn’t resign; he accepted that, as of last Wednesday (if not earlier), he could no longer legally exercise the duties of Acting Secretary.

At least legally, then, Gaynor’s been the Acting Secretary since *Wednesday night.* https://t.co/WZmIlxxgzN
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 12, 2021

Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf Will Resign from Post He Never Lawfully Heldhttps://t.co/SOZvM9KrLV
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) January 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 6:11am

With news that DHS's Chad Wolf is stepping down

Reminder of what helped get us into this mess in first place.

Whistleblower Brian Murphy: Wolf tried to suppress threat assessment of white supremacists in 2020 because of how it would reflect upon Trump.https://t.co/p4RLERoNVB pic.twitter.com/rKVEt2zV4a
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) January 11, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 6:12am

Since Wolf's resignation puts all the responsibility for the inauguration prep on the Secret Service (as noted in Marshall's article), it seems like this particular bridge of "transition" better be more advanced than any others.

The FBI has shown their intelligence was blown off earlier after the bad thing happened. In the absence of a 25A removal of POTUS, is there a way to authorize to the incoming administration to cooperate more actively for the purposes of survival in the context of the state of emergency declared by the existing one?

by moat on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 2:24pm

more upheaval at DHS, acting head of ICE resigns after two weeks on job:

BREAKING: The acting leader of ICE abruptly resigned on Wednesday, just two weeks into the job after the agency’s previous director also stepped down unexpectedly in December, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

More upheaval at DHS. https://t.co/l1BTbayo2h
— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) January 14, 2021

The departure of Jonathan Fahey is the latest in a long line of resignations at ICE during the Trump administration. The agency, which has come under mounting public scrutiny for controversial policies throughout Trump’s term, has now seen six leaders come and go since 2017.
— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) January 14, 2021

At the same time, Fahey’s resignation is symbolic of a Department of Homeland Security that has been under constant upheaval since President Donald Trump took office.
— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) January 14, 2021

Chad Wolf introduced Fahey in an email to ICE on Dec. 31, saying he was confident ICE’s new leader “will serve ICE with the same level of commitment and professionalism displayed during his distinguished career as a criminal prosecutor.”

As of Jan. 13, both men had resigned.
— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) January 14, 2021

One ICE official told me: "We haven’t been bothering to learn the names of the political appointees for months now, anticipating that they will all be short-term."

— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) January 14, 2021

Btw, still no email to ICE employees on the resignation. Many found out through this story.
— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) January 14, 2021

Scoop w @StefWKight — New DHS head tries end-around to shore up immigration rules https://t.co/hkIeIq7fMt
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) January 14, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 9:01pm

Chad Wolf To Resign At Midnight As DHS Jump Starts Biden Inauguration Prep

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