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Senate Passes Bill To Allow Retired Gen. Mattis To Serve As Defense Secretary

by Associated Press

01.12.17 | 3:17 pm

Gen. James Mattis, the head of U.S. Central Command, takes questions after delivering a lecture to the London think tank Policy Exchange in London, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. The United States has no plans to redeploy t... Gen. James Mattis, the head of U.S. Central Command, takes questions after delivering a lecture to the London think tank Policy Exchange in London, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. The United States has no plans to redeploy troops or ships in response to the unrest roiling Egypt and the instability in Tunisia and Jordan, the head of the U.S. Central Command said Tuesday. Mattis was making his first public speech in Europe since taking his post overseeing the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, and other missions in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) MORE LESS

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate decisively passes bill to let retired Gen. James Mattis run the Pentagon; Trump pick still must be confirmed.

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jeffs says:

January 12, 2017

By this point his lack of policy knowledge depth and the fact that he needed a waiver are secondary to what I consider his main qualification: he’s not insane.

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