Phyllis Fong had told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House terminated her on Friday

Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the department, had earlier told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House terminated her on Friday, saying that she didn’t believe the administration had followed proper protocols, the sources said.

In an email to colleagues on Saturday, reviewed by Reuters, she said the independent council of the inspectors general on integrity and efficiency “has taken the position that these termination notices do not comply with the requirements set out in law and therefore are not effective at this time”.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    After everything, I do still generally respect and like Jon Stewart

    What’s this everything you refer to?

    I think Jon Stewart has been a pretty stand up guy unlike his liberal/conservative flip flopping friend Stephen Colbert.

      • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        I actually worked with a guy that really hated Stephen Colbert. He was disgusting in many ways, early alt-right. One day I realized that he wasn’t mad about Colbert mocking conservatives, he actually believed it was an honest conservative political show. He loved The Colbert Report. He took it at face value. So when Colbert “came out” as a liberal it broke his heart. He thought the guy turned his back on his ideology for money.

        I could not convince him that the Colbert Report was satire. These people really exist.

    • audaxdreik@pawb.social
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      2 days ago

      There have been growing criticisms of him coming from the left for a bit now on how some of his tendencies to diffuse situations learns more towards liberalism than leftism. This isn’t an outright attack on him or to say he’s moving rightward overall. I need to watch this video again but I think this is the one that touches on a bunch of the points, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hCxHvogsTY

      From a comment on the video, “Jon Stewart made me a liberal as a child, adulthood made me a leftist.”

      If you like Jon Stewart I’m not trying to say you shouldn’t. But as someone who has continually been moving left, I do feel more distance from him than I used to is all.