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An NSC Staffer Is Forced Out Over a Controversial Memo
The Atlantic ^ | August 2 2017 | Rosie Gray

Posted on 08/02/2017 1:09:07 PM PDT by Whenifhow

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To: wastoute

McCain went bonkers applauding the appointment of McMaster. He should have been fired on that basis the next day.


21 posted on 08/02/2017 1:32:10 PM PDT by KyCats
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To: Whenifhow

Anybody have a copy of this memo?


22 posted on 08/02/2017 1:34:29 PM PDT by henkster (Ask your favorite liberal to take the "Snowflake Challenge.")
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To: henkster

Didn’t see the memo linked in the story. The article gives the info about what was in the memo.


23 posted on 08/02/2017 1:36:31 PM PDT by Whenifhow (when, if and how will Obama be gone?)
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To: Whenifhow

I would love to read it. I don’t like summaries unless I’m the one summarizing. I hope it gets leaked.


24 posted on 08/02/2017 1:37:58 PM PDT by henkster (Ask your favorite liberal to take the "Snowflake Challenge.")
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To: Whenifhow
Looks like he knows exactly what's going on.

So McMaster is either stupid or working for the Deep State?

25 posted on 08/02/2017 1:41:02 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: pgkdan

Both, the globalists are using Islam to further their goals.
And the Islamists are using the globalists to further theirs.

Trump is getting surrounded by globalists and Deep Staters within his own administration.
They are getting Trump to fire the people who would advance the agenda Trump ran on, stopping the flow across the border and restoring the rule of law.


26 posted on 08/02/2017 1:41:16 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: henkster

Here’s what was in the article:

Rich Higgins, a former Pentagon official who served in the NSC’s strategic-planning office as a director for strategic planning, was let go on July 21. Higgins’s memo describes supposed domestic and international threats to Trump’s presidency, including globalists, bankers, the “deep state,” and Islamists. The memo characterizes the Russia story as a plot to sabotage Trump’s nationalist agenda. It asserts that globalists and Islamists are seeking to destroy America. The memo also includes a set of recommendations, arguing that the problem constitutes a national-security priority.
Here’s what was quoted:

“Globalists and Islamists recognize that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national and political identity, must be destroyed,” the memo warns. It argues that this has led “Islamists [to] ally with cultural Marxists,” but that in the long run, “Islamists will co-opt the movement in its entirety.”

“In Maoist insurgencies, the formation of a counter-state is essential to seizing state power,” the memo reads. “Functioning as a hostile complete state acting within an existing state, it has an alternate infrastructure. Political warfare operates as one of the activities of the ‘counter-state.’” I was able to review large portions of the memo, and to secure extracts for publication.

“Because the left is aligned with Islamist organizations at local, national, and international levels, recognition should be given to the fact that they seamlessly interoperate through coordinated synchronized interactive narratives … These attack narratives are pervasive, full spectrum, and institutionalized at all levels. They operate in social media, television, the 24-hour news cycle in all media and are entrenched at the upper levels of the bureaucracies.”


27 posted on 08/02/2017 1:44:08 PM PDT by Whenifhow (when, if and how will Obama be gone?)
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To: Whenifhow

Sounds like a good guy to replace Mueller


28 posted on 08/02/2017 1:49:14 PM PDT by piasa
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To: All

A question to everyone. If you were in Trump’s place would you feel safe? He believed that once elected the elites would come around out of fear of the voters. Didn’t happen. So he now knows they’re not afraid to do whatever they believe has to be done to stop him.

If I was Trump I’d be in survival mode for myself and my family. The swamp is way too deep. He’s probably paranoid and has every right to be. There is no one (who can help him) who can be trusted.


29 posted on 08/02/2017 1:49:55 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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To: Whenifhow

McMaster is an Islamist. A truly dangerous man, like Brennan was and remains.


30 posted on 08/02/2017 1:50:26 PM PDT by montag813 (ue)
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To: All

Is there no one there who sees this crap? McMaster Rosenstein McCabe on and on it goes until Trump has been destroyed l just don’t understand it.


31 posted on 08/02/2017 1:50:34 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: madprof98

Yeah- he says islamists, it’s not like he’s lumping them in with moderates.


32 posted on 08/02/2017 1:50:48 PM PDT by piasa
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To: Lurkinanloomin

It’s not stopping the people from flowing across the border the deep state is concerned about. It’s the drugs. To quote Sonny Corleone “There’s a lot of money in that white powder.”

I now believe the Bushes, Quale, Clinton, all if them were, have been and are in the drug trade.


33 posted on 08/02/2017 1:54:45 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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To: Whenifhow

Bookmark


34 posted on 08/02/2017 1:59:42 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for ,everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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35 posted on 08/02/2017 2:25:07 PM PDT by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: proust

Check back in an hour or two. The title may change hands before the end of the day.


36 posted on 08/02/2017 2:30:03 PM PDT by Coronal
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To: Whenifhow

Sounds to me like a guy going way outside his job description and outside the chain of command.

I think neither Naval officer Bannon or Gen. Kelly will toletate that, regardless of the content.

Once again, consider the motivation of a Trump-hating rag like Atlantic trying to sow seeds of dissention among Trump supporters.

STOP FALLING FOR IT.


37 posted on 08/02/2017 2:36:10 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: jpl

aint that the truth.


38 posted on 08/02/2017 2:40:24 PM PDT by thinden
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To: Whenifhow

Who recommended McMaster for the NSC job and who convinced President Trump to nominate him?

He is a big disappointment.


39 posted on 08/02/2017 2:51:20 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpin' before Trumpin' was cool.....)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Who recommended McMaster for the NSC job and who convinced President Trump to nominate him?

He is a big disappointment.

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It was Condi Rice among a few others from previous administrations. That was a big hint right there.


40 posted on 08/02/2017 3:04:36 PM PDT by Whenifhow (when, if and how will Obama be gone?)
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