Nominee for top Pentagon personnel job withdraws after op-ed surfaces

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

The nominee for a top personnel job in the Pentagon has withdrawn, according to three sources close to the matter, the latest in a string of vacancy problems among high-ranking civilian officials at the Defense Department.

J. David Patterson, a former defense official in the George W. Bush administration and currently a senior vice president at SMA Inc., was nominated on Jan. 9 to be the second highest personnel official in the Pentagon.

Two sources — a Senate Democratic aide and another person familiar with the matter — told POLITICO that Patterson is withdrawing. A third source, a Defense Department official close to the situation, said Patterson lost support on Capitol Hill after word began circulating that he co-wrote an opinion piece for a conservative website linking "multiculturalism" to domestic terrorism.

In 2017, Patterson co-wrote an op-ed for The Federalist website blaming mass killings on immigrants who failed to “assimilate” into American culture. The column came out days after an immigrant from Uzbekistan who was inspired by ISIS allegedly drove a truck into cyclists and runners in lower Manhattan, killing eight and injuring a dozen more.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/04/pentagon-op-ed-david-patterson-110761

[marble falls]

1. How does he explain the overwhelmingly white dominance is mass and serial murder?

[Skittles]

3. or all the white gun-humping yahoos

what a racist piece of shit

[JohnQFunk]

2. Well, well, well - he wrote an op-ed for "The Federalist". Who funds "The Federalist"?

The web fishwrap's funding is, well, a bit on the opaque side (see https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2018/12/17/who-funds-the-federalist-an-interactive and https://www.quora.com/Who-funds-The-Federalist).

Additionally, the site's poobahs seem a bit uncomfortable about the question (see https://splinternews.com/wondering-who-funds-the-federalist-the-conservative-si-1836800332).