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The Pentagon blocked members of President Joe Biden’s incoming administration from gaining access to critical information about current operations, including the troop drawdown in Afghanistan, upcoming special operations missions in Africa and the Covid-19 vaccine distribution program, according to new details provided by transition and defense officials.

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The effort to obstruct the Biden team, led by senior White House appointees at the Pentagon, is unprecedented in modern presidential transitions and will hobble the new administration on key national security matters as it takes over positions in the Defense Department on Wednesday, the officials said.

Biden openly decried the treatment his aides were receiving at the Pentagon in December, calling it “nothing short, in my view, of irresponsibility” after meetings were canceled ahead of Christmas. He said his people were denied information on the SolarWinds hack, and said his team “needs a clear picture of our force posture around the world and our operations to deter our enemies.”

But people involved with the transition, both on the Biden team and the Pentagon side, gave POLITICO a more detailed picture of what was denied, saying briefings on pressing defense matters never happened, were delayed to the last minute, or were controlled by overbearing minders from the Trump administration's side.

“Defense has traditionally been a bipartisan business between and among professionals, and this is terrible optics for those who want to copy this pettiness in the future,” said Mackenzie Eaglen, a fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. The effort to block the transition from key national security information is “useless, poor form, and horrible precedent.”

This story is based on conversations with 10 Pentagon and Biden officials involved in the transition, most of whom spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive conversations.

Tensions between the Pentagon and the Biden agency landing team emerged almost the moment the General Services Administration authorized the transition to begin in late November after an initial delay following the election. While the military side of the house — the Joint Staff and the geographic combatant commanders — were more cooperative, the civilian side set up roadblocks at every turn.

“They really should not be allowed to get away with this. It’s just completely irresponsible and indefensible,” said one transition official. “To play politics with the country’s national security is just really unacceptable.”

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    • So is mcconnell, he is married to one of their top spies!!!!!

  • They're just waiting for Kamala. 

  • There is a reason Trump waited to release the doc dump on his last day if office.

    There is a reason the National Guard is still in DC and adding more troops.

    Biden completed the crime of the fraudelant election when he was sworn into to office. Now the Military is going to clean up the swamp

    and Trump will return for his 2nd term that he won legally.

    • What other reason could there possibly be? They better do something fast though. Neighbors are getting itchy and starting to talk of how to defend aginst a COMMUNIST INSTALLED REGIME!!! 

       

  • “They really should not be allowed to get away with this. It’s just completely irresponsible and indefensible,” said one transition official. “To play politics with the country’s national security is just really unacceptable.” REALLY ASS HOLE!!?................. Maybe because he doesn't want YOUR FRUAD PRESIDENT XIDEN,XI,PUPPET to let Xi know of all of our military operations/secrets!!!!.............TRAITOR P.O.S.!!!! Biden reports to the C.C.P. P.O.S.!!!!

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    Looks like maybe he DID sighn the insurrection act !!!!!

    • Agree.  

      Biden completed the crime of the fraudelant election when he was sworn into to office. Now the Military is going to clean up the swamp

      and Trump will return for his 2nd term that he won legally.

    • ONE CAN ONLY HOPE & PRAY!

    • Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. (Mk 11:24) 

      We must pray in FAITH... not HOPE.  Believing we have the substance of those things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.  Hope alone will not provide the evidence of its desire... Faith, actively believing, that we have the things hoped for, produces the results we desire... 

      "For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith." (Mathew 21:21)

    • Well, they need to get busy as Biden hasn't gotten the memo and he is rapidly removing most of president Trump's executive orders that made America Great Again.

    • Ronald, one can only hope it's part of letting Bin Hiden take the bait & then the door slams shut!

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