Thanks!! The Markle Foundation shows up on Steinberg.....BAD foundation.
The NSC Staff The staff of the NSC has become the largest policy group in the White House. Indeed, its combination of skill and size is a measure of the ascendancy of the White House in executive-branch policy development and policy coordination. As noted earlier, NSC staff members in 1948 numbered barely a handful; today, they number nearly two hundred.In the Clinton White House, nineteen regional and functional senior directors supported the top offices of the assistant and the two deputy assistants. These nineteen, in turn, were supported by the White House Situation Room, described earlier in this essay, and by three auxiliary offices: for systems and technical planning, records and access management, and administration. Each of the NSC senior directors has carried the additional title of special assistant to the President, marking them formally as officers of the White House staff.
The security advisor has had the latitude to create new staff units as necessary and to cut back or disband others; he has also had great flexibility in hiring and terminating staff members, all but a very few of whom serve at the NSC at the pleasure of the President. In fiscal year 2001, the internal White House "ceiling" for NSC staff "slots" -- that is, those salaried by the government -- was 155. Of those, 60 were paid from funds appropriated to the NSC (the number given in the personnel summary of the NSC staff that was reported to Congress in the fiscal year 2001 budget). Of the other 130-plus, most were on detail from State, Defense, or the CIA; the others were "noncounters" against the ceiling of 155: full-time consultants whose salaries were being paid by the universities from which they had come. Finally, there were usually a few interns at the NSC (who also did not count against the ceiling).
The fiscal year 2001 budget request for the NSC was just over $7 million. As a member of the White House staff, the national security advisor is exempt from the duty to defend that budget in congressional appropriations subcommittee testimony; that job is handled by the director of the Office of Administration.
Have some more shock, someone posted it earlier:
http://www.markle.org/downloadable_assets/nstf_members_guide.pdf
Democrats Suggest Double Standard on Leaks
Washington Post ^ | 04/24/06 | Walter Pincus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1620266/posts
Jane Harman claims to not know Mary
see my post
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1620266/posts?page=22#22