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(Full Title) --- EXCLUSIVE: Outgoing National Security Advisor McMaster Worked For Foreign Think Tank Funded By China, Russia

[Cboldt]

Back-to-back with http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3641804/posts

[\/\/ayne]

I’m wondering if McMaster was the leak on the Putin call. The talking points memo may have been a plant to ferret out traitors.

[Bobalu]

[House Atreides]

I am so happy the globalist McMaster is being “retired” from the Army rather than being given yet another undeserved star.

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

A B-oom?!?!

[Robert DeLong]

During McMaster’s time at IISS, the think tank also received $700,000 from George Soros’s Open Society and $140,000 from Ploughshares, the pacifist organization that aggressively pushed for Obama’s Iran nuclear deal.

Now why would a pacifist organization push for the Iran nuclear deal? Founded & run by Sumting Wong?

[trebb]

Funny how they fail to mention this 60 year old institution is receiving funds from an array of sources - idiot-bait headline make sit look like it’s a joint China/Russia deal.

[WayneS]

Who in the upper reaches of our thoroughly corrupt federal government, at some point in their egregiously dishonorable career, hasn't worked for a "think tank" that was/is funded by our enemies?

I'm sorry - did that come across as overly cynical?

[DoodleDawg]

Outgoing National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster served for more than a decade as a consultant to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, a foreign-based think-tank that has received funding from hostile foreign governments to include Russia and China, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation.

As an active duty general officer how could McMaster work as a consultant? Is that allowed?

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[jch10]

Trump knew this when he hired him.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Makes me wonder. How long did the Daily Caller have this information? Why put it out now, when McMaster is on his way out? If they had this information before he was installed in his position, why didn’t they put it out then?

[GreyFriar]

Army regulations do NOT permit active duty officers to work and be paid for it for other organizations. However, senior officers are assigned by the Department of Defense to major “think tanks” as part of their continuing education and learning. Thus the DoD decided to assign LTG McMaster, when he was a full colonel he was assigned to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, as a Senior Research Associate with a mandate described as “conduct[ing] research to identify opportunities for improved multi-national cooperation and political-military integration in the areas of counterinsurgency, counter-terrorism, and state building”, and to devise “better tactics to battle terrorism.”

He was also he was a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution (a conservative organization) and was a national security affairs fellow from 2002 to 2003. These are honorary position and as a serving officer he would NOT have been paid.

Thus blame the DoD for assigning him to the International Institute for Strategic Studies during George W. Bush’s presidency.

[KittyKares]

I’m continually amazed. Why is it so hard to find trustworthy people in the upper echelons of government?

[Wuli]

While McMaster worked for that think tank one of it’s main priorities when Obama was making the deal with the Mullahs of Tehran was BACKING AND PROMOTING the deal with the Mullahs of Tehran. I have repeated this many times since McMaster was first appointed to the Trump NSC team. I suspect the recommendation for McMaster came through Trump’s daughter and son-in-law mouthing what their Lib NY “friends” told them.