Sean
Spicer Slams Schumer For Slowing Nikki
Haley, ICP on Susan
Rice's USUN Entry
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
January 19 – Trump spokesman
Sean Spicer, in a press
conference the day before the
inauguration, chided Senator
Chuck Schumer for not
including Nikki Haley, nominee
to be US Ambassador to the UN,
in the list to be confirmed
before "Day One."
Meanwhile,
Inner City Press' sources tell
it of plans to request the
departure of more officials at
the US Mission than would
spring from the "Plum Book" of
political appointees.
Inner City Press
sources tell it that Susan
Rice, Samanatha Power's
predecessor, brought on some
17 political appointees, see also
this:
"The Permanent
Representative drew on her
previous experience at both
the Department as Assistant
Secretary and the NSC as
senior director to develop
special staff structures in
New York and Washington to
support her Cabinet role. The
special staff in New York
consists of a chief and a
deputy chief of staff, three
policy advisers, a special
assistant, and two schedulers,
all but one of whom are
political appointees, plus an
executive secretary and staff
assistant, both career Foreign
Service. USUN/W has a senior
Foreign Service deputy to the
Permanent Representative and
seven political appointee
staff: a deputy chief of
staff/counselor; four policy
advisers, one of whom is also
the speechwriter; a special
assistant; and an office
manager."
Before
Haley spoke on January 18 in
Washington, Senator Bob Corker
said he sometimes wondered if
just-left Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon had a pulse.
In fact,
Ban was quite active in
helping his own relatives at
the UN, promoting his son in
law to the top UN job in Kenya,
his brother mining in Myanmar
with a "UN delegation,"
indicted nephew using Ban's name
to sell real estate.
When Haley
answered Senator Markey (D-MA)
on Haiti cholera, she said
"We're going to have to make
this right with Haiti" -- and
clean up UN Peacekeeping. That
would involve firing Herve
Ladsous, see below.
Inner City
Press at the January 18 UN
noon briefing asked about
Haley saying countries whose
peacekeepers abuse should not
keep getting paid, asking
specifically about Burundi
whose troops are suspected by
the UN of 25 rapes in the
Central African Republic,
while Ladsous decides to keep
paying the Nkurunziza
government for 800 more of
them.
Earlier, Haley
said the UN has a "checkered
history." That's being
diplomatic. Consider a head of
Peacekeeping who has linked
rapes to R&R, video
here.
Consider a
head of the UN "Department of
Public Information" who did no
due diligence over indicted UN
briber Ng Lap Seng - then
evicted and still restricts
the Press which asked here
about it. Audit
here, Para 37-40, 20b; NYT
here.
In
response to questions, Haley
praised the UN peacekeeping
mission in Sierra Leone,
questioned the one in South
Sudan and that country's
government. She noted that
countries make money off their
peacekeepers. The case in
point, we note, is Burundi, here.
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