Midknight Review -- new and revised: Trump watches as Sec Nelsen walks away. Speaking for myself, I would not have stayed as long. Her replacement will not do better job - but Trump does have the right to try. None-the-less, Neilsen had our support.

President Trump announced Sunday that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will leave her post.
Nielsen led the sprawling department’s efforts on immigration enforcement, disaster relief, election security and cybersecurity since she joined the Cabinet in December 2017.
Nielsen took over for close ally, John Kelly, as the head of DHS after he vacated the role to serve as White House chief of staff. Kelly left the White House at the end of 2018.
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan will replace Nielsen as
acting DHS Secretary, Trump said in a follow-up tweet.The Senate confirmed Nielsen, 62-37, with 10 Democrats and Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) supporting her nomination.
Earlier this year, she became the public face of the administration’s controversial “zero tolerance” policy that led to the separation of thousands of migrant families that illegally crossed the southern border.
Nielsen stood at the podium in the White House briefing room in June, where she insisted the administration did not have a policy of separating families and that only Congress could address the underlying issue. Within days of her remarks, Trump signed an executive order ending the practice.
While she earned praise from the president for that performance, Nielsen was a regular target of Trump’s scorn as he sought to implement stricter immigration laws. She reportedly considered resigning in May after he lashed out at her during a lengthy tirade during a Cabinet meeting.
Prior to her time in Trump’s Cabinet, Nielsen served in the George W. Bush administration in the Transportation Security Administration and on the Homeland Security Council.
Nielsen also worked in the private sector and academia with a focus on cybersecurity before she returned to the federal government to work as Kelly's deputy both at DHS and at the White House.
Her departure will be viewed as a blow to DHS's cyber policies and operations, which she often championed and publicly discussed. The site CyberScoop reported last year that Nielsen had been offered the top cyber job at the department, but that she was unable to make up her mind on whether to take up the post.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Trump watches as Sec Nelsen walks away. Speaking for myself, I would not have stayed as long. Her replacement will not do better job - but Trump does have the right to try. None-the-less, Neilsen had our support.

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