EXCERPT:
McCABE: "Well, we don‘t know because they haven‘t made any disclosures about who is being cut or what sort of functions are being trimmed back. But certainly with Mr. Pulte's history of using the data that he had access to as the kind of federal housing czar to go after the president‘s political enemies, that raises that prospect that you mentioned very clearly. Is it possible that these cuts in staff are really directed at people who the president perceives or the White House perceives as being disloyal? On a broader level, it raises the very basic question of how does Bill Pulte know who to fire? This is a guy with no intelligence experience, never been in the military, never been in law enforcement, never been associated with any of the 18 agencies that he now oversees. This is a guy who came in on his first day last Friday and had to ask what sort of clearance might he be given? So, clearly doesn‘t have any appreciation for the significance and the sensitivity of the information that he‘s going to be exposed to. How would someone with that lack of background know which programs and people to cut? So if it‘s not being done for a political purpose, which it might be, the other prospect is just sheer incompetence."
