The government is run by lobbyists.
The government employees are simply paper-pushers. They don’t need to know anything about their area of responsibility. In fact, job knowledge may be seen as a detriment because the bureaucrat may have “ideas” and may ask uncomfortable questions of the lobbyists. That would be ... awkward.
If you want to find the grand architect behind all of the anti Trump leaking, look at Lindsey’s Master John McCain.
John McCain is the most infantile, petty ego driver narcissist in DC. Trump winning the Presidency when he lost is seen in McCain’s demented pathetic little mind as a personal insult that must be avenged. The same things McCain did to sabotage Bush, he is now trying, on steroids, against Trump.
That’s what you get by rewarding your enemies.
Douglas Valentine was researching a book on the Phoenix Program in Vietnam a couple decades back. In doing this he interviewed several high ranking CIA officers including William Colby, head of the Phoenix Program and later CIA director. The PP was the CIAs war on civilians in Vietnam, and it was very brutal.
In one of his last interviews for the book, he was offered a job in Washington as an assistant to someone in Congress. His job would be to research for bills or whatever but the CIA would feed him information and tell him what to report back. This was in the 80s and the job paid (and it was with no prior work experience having just graduated college) about 90k. He turned it down.
The CIA has been doing this sort of thing, filling DC with basically spies (the President doesn’t control the CIA, but someone does) since the 50s. Col L Fletcher Prouty said the same thing in the 60s and it goes on today.
This is getting old. When Sherman Adams was President Eisenhower's chief of staff, his refusal to hire conservatives and loyal Republicans who had worked their hearts out for the Eisenhower/Nixon ticket was legendary. And during his presidency, Nixon retained a lot of Democrat holdovers.
Why can't Republicans do like Democrat presidents and clean house once they get in?
When one agrees to have traitors in one’s organization in return for support from other traitors, doesn’t that make one a traitor as well?
What does McCain gain from her being in NSC?
McMaster can fire her!