Posted on 10/12/2019 1:53:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
On Friday, a source told Fox News that a National Security Council (NSC) staffer had spoken about Trump’s July 25th phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to “multiple” people outside of the NSC, and had characterized the call as “outrageous.” This occurred before the whistleblower’s complaint had been submitted. This development had been reported to then-senior National Security Council (NSC) leadership.
According to Fox:
The development comes as Fiona Hill, a former special assistant to the president who worked on European and Russian affairs, is set to give a deposition next week. Fox News has reached out to Hill for over a week with questions about whether she helped prep for the July 25 call or received any readout of the call.
Hill departed the White House in July, after working under ex-National Security Advisers H.R. McMaster and John Bolton.
Separately, President Trump’s new National Security Advisor, Robert O’Brien, appeared on Fox Business News’ Lou Dobbs on Thursday and said he plans to reduce the number of staff members of the National Security Council over the next 15 months to about 100 from the current level of 178. O’Brien said that the Obama administration had over 200 staffers on its NSC while the George W. Bush administration had only 100. He told Dobbs that, “It just ballooned into a massive, you know, bureaucracy…under the last administration. We want to bring it back to historic levels. We think we can be more efficient and better serve the President with that sort of a streamlined organization.”
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So are these guys all public union members?
The should be all “excepted service” & thus barred from federal union participation. However that may have changed.
They should cut it to 25 and make certain that NONE of those were there for Obama, Clinton, and perhaps even W!
“So are these guys all public union members?”
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Probably not. But, if they are similar to most federal government staffs, most of them contribute nothing or little of value and won’t be missed. And a large number of them who are “career” employees are likely leftist globalists.
But, not to worry, most of the “reduced” staffers will go back to the Agencies from which they are detailed, continue to draw their inflated salaries and benefits and continue to produce little or nothing of value.
And this isn't illegal? Unless, of course, the staffer is a Dem...
Leftist bitch is going to discover testifying is not like leaking. Good luck surviving the the cross examination. She is either going to have to admit repeating hearsay OR she going to perjure yourself. The whole story is utterly incontinent. Giuliani “cut out the NSC staff” but she in the NSC knows all about what Giuliani was doing?
They should be excluded from the union due to regular and recurring access to classified material. At least they would be in my agency.
It’s hard to live in a cesspool. No matter who’s the president, the federal government is run by traitors, crooks, and thugs.
BUMP!
They sound like your typical government “worker”.
Could be the reason John Bolton bolted???
Trump doesn’t do denigration by subordinates. He just says, “You’re fired”
Deep Stater/NeoCon war-seekers with Russia McMaster & Bolton still paying dividends.
This Fox story is so badly edited it is almost unintelligible. I can’t believe that Gregg Re and Catherine Herridge wrote this. Surely the confusion emerged in the editing process.
So, Fox News, Is Fiona Hill the former NSC Staffer who may be the informant to speak to the fake whistleblower? Or is that NSC Staffter’s name presently unknown?
What role did Fionia Hill play?
“Leftist bitch is going to discover testifying is not like leaking. Good luck surviving the the cross examination....”
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My understanding is that Pencilneck is holding these hearings behind closed doors. I also thought I read that principals (I.e., the Congress critters) were not going to be allowed to question the witnesses but instead staff (I.e, Pencilneck’s chosen staffers) would do the questioning.
Abolish NSC.
Did this guy actually listen in on the call? Me bet no... just another annoymous source
Cut to 25 and make sure they are no where near the President or his phone calls. Throw in the CIA & FBI partisans as well, hell put them in a broom closet or parking garage.
Next the question that has to be asked is if the president can’t trust their presence in the White House can he trust any intelligence they present to him? They clearly are walking clusterf&@$s all the way round. They miss bin laden in the 90’s, miss WTC bombing in 93, missed 911, WMD’s in Iraq, Boston bombers, etc... with no consequences.
Then they rig an election and fail. Next they try and cover their criminal behavior up and fail. Then they start Russia coup and fail. Then they try and cover it up and fail. Now it’s the Ukraine coup and its failing. All this criminal behavior to disenfranchise 62 million American voters and still no consequences. And for so-called spooks can’t shut their pie holes. All the while we hear there are good people in these agencies. Really, when are they going to stand up and do the right thing???
I would break these agencies up and fire 95% of them and roll the remaining 5% into DOD with no administrative positions. Their behavior is 3rd world Marcos, Duvall, and Stalin like.
Maybe every word said in the White House is being recorded in Obama’s new digs only a few miles away. Never before has a former president stayed in DC after his term expired. Could there be some kind of digital transmission relaying to Obama’s house?
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