The Imperial Presidency

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Trump fires NSA boss, deputy

Which are supposed to be nonpartisian positions.

"Always, we’re going to let go of people we don’t like, or people we don’t think can do the job, or people who may have loyalties to somebody else," Trump said on Air Force One while on his way to a Saudi Arabia-backed golf tournament.

This comment repeats unclassified information: The Five Eyes intelligence agencies have always said which agency supplied which piece of information, so that getting the same report from multiple sources can be traced back to its originator, which prevents giving a report from only one agency undue weight in the decision-making process.

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So, let's update Labster's bingo card, 44 days after he posted it.


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Okay, the recession won't officially start for another two months... but it's pretty obvious from the last two days of stock markets tanking that it's happening.