[gandalftb]

I have long maintained that the NSC has become little more than a rest area for intel bureaucrats between billets in the Pentagon, CIA, State Dept., etc.
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The NSC is the premier leaking agency and is full of “cowboys” on their own program.

[AndyJackson]

the NSC has become little more than a rest area for intel bureaucrats between billets in the Pentagon, CIA, State Dept., etc.

It's where agencies sent their very best people - their top men - when they can't figure out what else to do with them.