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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Amen on this ‘solve one problem, move on to the next’ train of thought.
ALL these pols are into the mindset of in order to investigate something/someone, they have to form a NEW committee - after months of debate(?), so they appoint a board to figure out whether to form the new committee, then it takes another board to remove the first board etc etc etc... good way to keep ‘friends’ in the business.
If one were to make it as a business, the best way to start is to study how the Government works (oxymoron) and do the opposite.
A very timely add has been running of a little girl at her lemonade stand with a sign “LEMONADE- $1.00”
Guy walks up and says I will take one.
“That will be 2.48”
“The sign says 1 dollar”
“yes but I have to add in tax, special handling etc etc”