{"id":59370,"date":"2020-07-30T13:49:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T13:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2020\/07\/30\/senate-hearing-cancelled-for-controversial-pentagon-nominee-anthony-tata\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:27:19","slug":"senate-hearing-cancelled-for-controversial-pentagon-nominee-anthony-tata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2020\/07\/30\/senate-hearing-cancelled-for-controversial-pentagon-nominee-anthony-tata\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate hearing canceled for controversial Pentagon nominee Anthony Tata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>This story was updated July 31, 2020.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2015 The Senate on Thursday abruptly canceled a confirmation hearing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2020\/06\/24\/republicans-eye-meeting-on-troubled-pentagon-policy-nominee\/\" target=_blank>Anthony Tata<\/a>, President Donald Trump\u2019s pick for the Pentagon\u2019s top policy job, following stiff opposition to the nomination from Democrats and wavering by some Republicans. No new hearing date was announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tata faced opposition from Democrats and some Republicans, who felt his his conspiratorial, anti-Muslim and harshly partisan remarks \u2015 which Tata renounced last month \u2015 were incompatible with the job of undersecretary of defense for policy, which leads policy development and defense relationships with allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., said Thursday he and Trump agreed on the eve of Tata\u2019s confirmation hearing to at least delay the nomination. Inhofe has had to navigate the White House\u2019s refusal to budge on Tata for weeks, even after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/06\/15\/politics\/tata-pentagon-nominee-kfile\/index.html\" target=_blank>CNN reported<\/a> Tata called President Barack Obama \u201ca terrorist leader,\u201d and called Islam \u201cthe most oppressive violent religion that I know of.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are many Democrats and Republicans who didn\u2019t know enough about Anthony Tata to consider him for a very significant position at this time,\u201d Inhofe, R-Okla., said in a statement. \u201cWe didn\u2019t get the required documentation in time; some documents, which we normally get before a hearing, didn\u2019t arrive until yesterday. As I told the President last night, we\u2019re simply out of time with the August recess coming, so it wouldn\u2019t serve any useful purpose to have a hearing at this point, and he agreed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Fox News guest, staunch ally of the president and retired Army brigadier general, Tata was nominated for the policy position at the Pentagon, where he has been serving as a senior adviser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman told reporters late Thursday that Tata will remain an aide to Defense Secretary Mark Esper while the committee settles on a plan to grant him a hearing. And on Friday, White Houses press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said: \u201cThe president still supports Gen. Tata.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, a source with knowledge of the situation told Defense News on Friday that Tata is expected to withdraw his nomination in the coming days. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/07\/30\/politics\/anthony-tata-nomination-hearing\/index.html\" target=_blank>CNN reported<\/a> that the Senate Armed Services Committee was advised late Wednesday the withdrawal was likely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In any case, it was apparent before Thursday\u2019s hearing was canceled, Senate sources said, that Tata would have had problems in a Senate floor vote on his confirmation and that he lacked the votes in committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the discomfort on the panel was fueled by a belief Trump would seek to have Tata, if confirmed, replace Esper. \u201cIt\u2019s no state secret the president is unhappy with Esper and that, if Tata\u2019s confirmed by the Senate, Trump would slide him in as secretary of defense,\u201d a Senate Democratic aide said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, the same day as a closed-door SASC hearing on Tata, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/trumps-nominee-for-senior-pentagon-job-in-trouble-heading-into-hearing\/2020\/07\/29\/b2b2d65c-d104-11ea-af07-1d058ca137ae_story.html\" target=_blank>the Washington Post reported<\/a> that Republicans were expressing doubts they could support him, including panel members Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou know, I\u2019m still vetting him, but I can\u2019t say that I would be optimistic,\u201d Ernst told the newspaper. Ernst added that she has heard \u201ccomments from Iowans who are now retired but have worked with him,\u201d and that she values their feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve been visiting with him and I\u2019m getting more comfortable with that, but we\u2019ll have an opportunity at a hearing,\u201d Cramer told the newspaper. \u201cWe\u2019ll see after that, how the hearing goes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cramer used Tata\u2019s nomination to vent unrelated frustration over the Pentagon\u2019s opposition to adding the names of 74 sailors who died aboard the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/military-history\/2020\/02\/24\/senators-seek-secdef-support-to-add-names-of-lost-74-to-vietnam-memorial-wall\/\" target=_blank>U.S.S. Frank Evans<\/a> to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenJackReed\/status\/1276307272289914881\" target=_blank>SASC Ranking Member Jack Reed<\/a>, D-R.I., and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenWarren\/status\/1272567007339180033\" target=_blank>other Democrats<\/a> on the panel have come out against the nomination, but it was an open question whether Ernst and other SASC Republicans in tough reelection campaigns, like Sens. Thom Tillis and Martha McSally, would vote to confirm Tata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s fair to say members on both sides of the aisle have raised serious questions about this nominee,\u201d Reed said in a statement Thursday. \u201cWe had a closed door session on Tuesday and today\u2019s public hearing has now been cancelled. Chairman Inhofe did the right thing here, and it\u2019s clear this nomination isn\u2019t going anywhere without a full, fair, open hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Backing Tata would mean defending a presidential pick whose public statements have evinced intolerance to Islam at a time when the military and the rest of the country is reckoning with America\u2019s painful legacy of discrimination. (In June, Tata apologized to the Senate for his offensive remarks, saying he \u201cdeeply regretted\u201d them.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats, in a letter this week, called on Tata to withdraw and resign from his Pentagon job. Signatories included SASC members Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii; Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; Tammy Duckworth. D-Ill., among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNominees should see the value diversity, inclusion, and unity bring to our institutions. Unfortunately, your history of public remarks does not meet this standard,\u201d the lawmakers said in the letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before Thursday\u2019s open hearing, the panel first met July 28 to consider Tata\u2019s nomination in a closed session, a move typically used to review confidential investigative materials. Tata retired from the military in 2009 after an Army inquiry found that he conducted \u201cat least two\u201d adulterous affairs while serving, considered a crime by the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The closed hearing was the panel\u2019s first for a nominee since Gen. John Hyten was considered for vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff amid sexual misconduct allegations. The panel heard from Hyten and others in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2019\/07\/25\/hyten-nomination-to-advance-after-he-offers-private-testimony\/\" target=_blank>closed session<\/a> and advanced him to Senate confirmation, after an Air Force probe found insufficient evidence to file charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, civil rights groups held a press conference to call on the Senate to block Tata, calling him an, \u201canti-Muslim, anti-Black internet troll\u201d for his inflammatory comments and tweets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Aaron Mehta contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A confirmation hearing has been scuttled for Anthony Tata, President Donald Trump\u2019s embattled pick for the Pentagon\u2019s top policy job, following stiff opposition to the nomination from Democrats and wavering by some 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