Biden Calls Out Department of Defense Leadership for Obstructing Incoming Administration Weeks Before Inauguration
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BIDEN: “We welcomed teams from the incoming Trump/Pence administration four years ago, gave them access to all that we had. And over the past few weeks, teams of genuine policy and management experts, many of them with previous government experience, who have gone into agencies across the government to conduct interviews with personnel to gather information and to assess the state of the federal government — excuse me — that we will shortly inherit. These teams worked under incredibly difficult circumstances — taking Covid-19 precautions and waiting weeks for the ascertainment — meaning, so that they could go in and be cleared to go in, but they have done an outstanding job. From some agencies, our teams received exemplary cooperation from the career staff in those agencies. From others, most notably the Department of Defense, we encountered obstruction from the political leadership at that department. And the truth is: many of the agencies that are critical to our security have incurred enormous damage.”
