This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, November 13th, 2020.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The President's moved this week to remove some top officials at the Pentagon and the Department

of Homeland Security raise red flags,

why do this immediately after losing an election, and especially an election that you,

the President, have not conceded that you lost.

Cato's John Glazer and Eric Gomez comment.

It's been a really busy week.

It started off with the head of the National Nuclear Security

Administration being asked to resign very forcefully

over the weekend and then Secretary of Defense Esper followed I believe on

Monday or Tuesday and And Esper wasn't, those two weren't as odd.

The NSA, there was a lot of budget stuff

going on behind the scenes and reporting

is basically confirmed that that is the reason why she was

asked to resign and then Esper before the election happened he said that he had like one foot out

the door and even if Trump had won he wouldn't have stuck around. It was after

Esper that things kind of ramped up pretty quickly where you had you know under

secretaries doing intelligence work and getting canned and also other folks at that level.

Undersecretary Defense for Policy as well, Intelligence, and then just this morning spreading over to Department of Homeland Security

with two senior officials also being asked to go out. So I think that was the

the precipitating about Esper. It was kind of a no big deal because we knew

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