Pentagon nominee forced to withdraw after op-ed surfaces blaming mass killings on immigrants who...

The nominee for a top Pentagon job has withdrawn from consideration after a controversial op-ed article he co-authored surfaced, Politico reports.

J. David Patterson was nominated on 9 January to be the second highest individual in the personnel office which oversees recruitment, career development, and pay issues for the department of defence.



Working in collaboration with ADP Efferson, Mr Patterson co-wrote a 2017 article for conservative website The Federalist, in which they blamed mass killings on immigrants that failed to assimilate.












The op-ed, How Multiculturalism Helps Breed Homegrown Terrorism, was published just days after eight were killed and 12 injured when they were run down by an immigrant from Uzbekistan in Lower Manhattan.