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This is especially true at the Pentagon where it seems that keeping Gates as a caretaker is desired and necessary for the defense of the nation and that Admirals and Generals appear very comfortable making policy decisions reserved for elsewhere in the Executive while the new President comes of age. And of course the slave trade network from bounty or field via air routes and terminating in Guantanamo Bay must be continued cause they really don't think the Constitution, Conventions and Treaties are up to the standards equal to the cafeteria where these unelected keepers of trust feed. Gratuitous, indeed.
Change will come as a wholesale dismissal of appointees and revocation of stained commissions occurs across the Potomac as the President addresses the Nation at inauguration.
Change will be noted at the moment the torturers' brothels across the world are closed and the Gitmo's landlord, the Navy, places the Jack of the 50 United States back on the bows of US Navy's ships to note proper ownership.