[The attorney general nominee has made racist statements in the past while his new national security adviser is an Islamophobe.]
I/II. http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/40353-trump-names-attorney-general-cia-head-and-national-security-advisor-picks Trump Names Attorney General, CIA Head, and National Security Advisor Picks By teleSUR 18 November 16 *The attorney general nominee has made racist statements in the past while his new national security adviser is an Islamophobe.* Donald Trump has disclosed more names to to fill his cabinet, choosing the controversial Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Representative Mike Pompeo as CIA director and Lt. Gen. (ret.) Mike Flynn as national security adviser, a transition official told Reuters Friday. The three men have accepted Trump's offer. However the U.S. president-elect will need the Senate to confirm his Cabinet nominations, and Sessions could face some trouble due to a checkered past around his views on race. Back in 1986, the Alabama senator was accused of making racist comments while serving as a U.S. attorney in Alabama. He called a black assistant U.S. attorney “boy” and the NAACP “un-American” and “communist-inspired.” Sessions is a very close ally of Trump, as he was the first senator to endorse his presidential bid. According to media reports, he is one of the key architects of Trump’s immigration, counter-terrorism and trade policies. The role of Sessions will be vital for the new president, as he opposes any path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and is an enthusiastic backer of Trump's promise to build a wall on the border with Mexico. But his confirmation, even in a Republican-controlled chamber, is not guaranteed. National Security Adviser-in-waiting Flynn shares Trump's the harsh criticism of the Obama administration, especially since he was ousted as director of the Defence Intelligence Agency in 2014. Flynn is also a known Islamophobe who used torture on those captured during army covert operations. He has said the U.S. is “at war with” the "cancer" of Islam, and tweeted that “fear of Muslims is RATIONAL.” His appointment will not require Senate confirmation. II. http://www.naacp.org/latest/naacp-statement-appointment-jeff-sessions-attorney-general/ PRESS RELEASE NAACP STATEMENT ON APPOINTMENT OF JEFF SESSIONS AS ATTORNEY GENERAL NOVEMBER 18, 2016 BALTIMORE, MD – NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks issued the following statement regarding the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions as potential Attorney General by President-elect Donald J. Trump: “The nomination of Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III to be Attorney General, to serve as chief law enforcement officer of the United States, is deeply troubling. Based on the disdain for our nation’s civil rights laws that Senator Sessions has consistently demonstrated throughout his career, his fitness to be the chief protector and enforcer of them falls into dire question. “Senator Sessions was denied appointment as a federal judge in 1986 for a slew of racist comments, including calling the work of the NAACP and ACLU ‘Un-American.’ He has also repeatedly spoken out against the federal Voting Rights Act. We just lived through the first presidential election in over 50 years without the Act’s full protections and witnessed the suppression of millions of votes. To appoint an Attorney General who dismisses the need for these critical protections is even more despicable and unacceptable. “Senator Sessions’ record suggests that he will carry on an old, ugly legacy in this country’s history when civil rights for African-Americans, women and minorities were not regarded as core American values. While Lady Justice may be said to be blind, we need an Attorney General with 20-20 vision in seeing racial injustice. Whether Senator Sessions, with decades of failing grades on the NAACP’s report card, possesses a racial vision and commitment to justice is in serious question. “We need to move forward, not backward. Our nation needs federal action to protect basic voting rights, to reform outrageous abuses and racial profiling by police departments in Ferguson, Baltimore, Chicago and across the country, and to protect rights for LGBT Americans and other vulnerable populations in an era of rising hate and in the face of an administration threatening to wage war on basic civil liberties. “Through Congress, our membership and by every means available, the NAACP will continue to stand against the regressive and intolerant views that Senator Sessions espouses.” ### Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest and largest nonpartisan civil rights organization. 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