Posted on 04/05/2017 10:19:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The anti-Trump media jumped into a level of gleeful frenzy today amid a required security filing noticing that Senior Trump Adviser Steve Bannon was no longer a member of the “principals committee” on the National Security Council.
The hilarity cemented itself when competing media outlets were arguing about Steve Bannon being on the NSC, or being kicked-off the NSC, while Bannon walked past them en route to today’s NSC meeting. Wait, wha… huh? Yeah -{Insert Laugh Track HERE}-
Nothing ever happens in a vacuum, and today is no exception. No, Steve Bannon is not being removed from the Senior advisory role to President Trump and will attend NSC meetings with the President. Bannon’s security clearance therein remains unchanged.
However, Bannon is removing himself from the Principal’s Committee of the H.R. McMaster NSC (*note* he never attended the committee meetings, well, that is, he did, once), now that the political weaponization of NSC intelligence operations has been removed; and McMaster has recalibrated the incoming intelligence agencies to remove the political intelligence they were previously used to sending.
What does that prior paragraph mean?
Start by reminding yourself of the current headlines about National Security Adviser Susan Rice requesting raw intelligence to the NSC based on Obama’s political agendas’, not national security.
HR McMaster, the current National Security Adviser of President Trump, had to reset and re-instruct each of the heads of the intelligence agencies who provide intelligence to the NSC to remove the political intelligence.
McMaster needed to visit with each agency, CIA, NSA, State Department and Defense to reorient them on what national intelligence the Trump administration wishes to receive within the National Security Council.
President Trump doesn’t want the national intelligence agencies sending him updates on what Senator Schumer had for lunch, where and who he dined with. Instead President Trump prefers the intelligence agencies focus on global security issues that are actually vital to the national security interests of the country.
H.R McMasters instructions toward he intelligence agencies has just freed up thousands of hours of operational intelligence (spying and analysis) to focus on real threats unrelated to domestic politics. Subsequently with the new direction established, Steve Bannon doesn’t need to be a pre-filter for NSC raw intel any longer. Bannon can now be a consumer of that intelligence, just like President Trump.
White House Chief Legal Counsel Don McGahn’s job also just got a lot less stressful.
Secondly, with the anticipation of President Obama’s Nat Sec Adviser Susan Rice remaining in the headlines as more is discovered about her role in the weaponization of intelligence for political use, there’s no better time for political Bannon to exit the NSC Principals Committee than right now.
It would be a little sketchy for Rice’s political weaponization of the NSC to be exposed in the media headlines while Steve Bannon, painted as a pure political partisan, sat on the Principals Committee of the Trump NSC.
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For those who didn’t get my ping, I asked Bannon tonight if he was going to quit & he said “I will never quit.”
“It would be a little sketchy for Rice’s political weaponization of the NSC to be exposed in the media headlines while Steve Bannon, painted as a pure political partisan, sat on the Principals Committee of the Trump NSC.”
This makes sense. Plain and simple.
Every time Trump and his team achieve a new goal and recalibrate to address the next one, the media insists Trump’s Administration is in chaos, when exactly the opposite is true. The media and government are accustomed to creating a permanent status quo. The idea that one might actually accomplish something and move on to new objectives is beyond their comprehension.
So Obama was Stasi, just as some of us feared. This is unfracking believable, but our Nork liberals
seem to enjoy the allure of dictatorship, what fools.
That’s actually funny.
My friends on the left were all gleeful and I said “I dunno...”
They laughed at me.
I chuckled secretly
Remarkable and clearly spoken, clearly written. Thank you.
McMaster works for the White House, not the intelligence agencies. The intelligence agencies, as far as I know, don’t work for him. The DNI does not work for him. The only thing he can do, unless I’m mistaken, is visit the agencies to tell them what the President’s position on “political intelligence” is. This article makes it sound like he’s the head of the IC. He isn’t.
You speak to Bannon?
Excellent article. Should be required reading for all Dems, Lefties and Anti-Trumpsters.
Great article 2nd Div.- thanks for posting it.
LS- that is great news about Bannon staying! Very happy to hear it! Thank you.
“Losers are quitters; only losers quit” — Donald Trump, 2016
The Swamp hates Bannon... one more reason to back Bannon...
A chess game of incredible proportions. I wonder if the battle for the OEOB is over yet? I imagine many stayed on in January, just to keep the White House running... Any President's first 100 days, should be dedicated to getting control of everything going on inside the WH fence.
Bannon is President Trumps Cardinal Richelieu. He will do most of his work behind the scenes where he can be most effective.
Yes...if they cannot figure out a successful construction operation ends quickly, how do you suppose they can figure anything else?
You can add me to your Ping List if you have one.
Re: Your text to Bannon.
Nice to hear that Bannon has your ear. And it makes me curious to know if he ever drops by FR for a look see.
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HR McMaster, the current National Security Adviser of President Trump, had to reset and re-instruct each of the heads of the intelligence agencies who provide intelligence to the NSC to remove the political intelligence.
McMaster needed to visit with each agency, CIA, NSA, State Department and Defense to reorient them on what national intelligence the Trump administration wishes to receive within the National Security Council...
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...which will be quickly, and quietly, reverted once the next Administration takes office.
Did they give ‘em all a good scolding and stern talk should anything ‘slip-out’ again? Maybe a rack on the knuckles for each offense? /s
And the (R) in Congress will slow-walk, to No-wheresville, any actual oversight or remediation.
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