Amazing!! Trump finally appoints a foreign policy advisor (or at least says a name OUT loud) and this political HACK blocked investigations into wrong doing by Bush and Cheney and was fired. He was the Pentagon IG! He ended his career in bribes and favors--I repeat he was the Pentagon's INSPECTOR GENERAL. He then went on to work for BLACKWATER. (Revolving door!) (PS AND he was a WHITEWATER instigator! Again, you can't make this (*)(*)(*)(*) up!) Revealed: Trump foreign policy advisor was booted from Pentagon for blocking probes of Bush White House Newsweek NEWSWEEK 21 MAR 2016 AT 22:06 ET Jeff Stein Posted with permission from Newsweek Joseph E. Schmitz, named by Donald Trump as a key foreign policy adviser on Monday, was forced out of his job as the Pentagon’s top watchdog a decade ago amid accusations that he protected top officials in the George W. Bush administration suspected of wrongdoing. Trump, the Republican front-runner, named Schmitz as one of his five top foreign policy advisers during an editorial meeting at The Washington Post on Monday morning. The group will be chaired by Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama. Schmitz’s rocky three and a half year tenure as the Defense Department’s inspector general ended in 2005 amid a barrage of attacks questioning his leadership, mostly notably from Senator Charles E. Grassley, the long serving Iowa Republican who has championed whistleblower rights at the Pentagon. Grassley, then-chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, accused Schmitz of blocking investigations of Bush administration officials tied to Iraq and Afghanistan war contracts and questioned his ties to lobbyists. Schmitz also drew scrutiny for naming as his chief of staff L. Jean Louis, a bank investigator who gained notoriety for raising accusations, later discredited, against Bill and Hillary Clinton during the Whitewater scandal. “Schmitz slowed or blocked investigations of senior Bush administration officials, spent taxpayer money on pet projects and accepted gifts that may have violated ethics guidelines, according to interviews with current and former senior officials in the inspector general's office, congressional investigators and a review of internal e-mail and other documents,” The Los Angeles Times reported in 2005. In 2006, the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), a nonpartisan watchdog in Washington, D.C., noted that Schmitz "resigned under a cloud of allegations that he had allowed inappropriate political interference in a Boeing tanker lease investigation by the White House, as well as other politically sensitive investigations." "The original report's secrecy begs the question of why the DoD IG was hiding Boeing's role," POGO investigator Nick Schwellenbach noted. A review board, the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency, subsequently reviewed Grassley’s accusations and “concluded that there was no wrongdoing.” But that wasn’t the end of controversies surrounding Schmitz, whose job put him in charge of eliminating waste, fraud and abuse in Pentagon programs. When he resigned as inspector general, he took a job with the parent company of Blackwater USA, the controversial defense contractor whose operatives killed 17 civilians and wounded 20 in Baghdad in 2007... https://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/re...agon-for-blocking-probes-of-bush-white-house/
