Posted on 08/02/2017 1:09:07 PM PDT by Whenifhow
A top official of the National Security Council was fired last month after arguing in a memo that President Trump is under sustained attack from subversive forces both within and outside the government who are deploying Maoist tactics to defeat President Trump’s nationalist agenda.
His dismissal marks the latest victory by National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster in the ongoing war within Trump’s White House between those who believe that the president is under threat from dark forces plotting to undermine him, and those like McMaster who dismiss this as conspiratorial thinking.
Rich Higgins, a former Pentagon official who served in the NSC’s strategic-planning office as a director for strategic planning, was let go on July 21. Higgins’s memo describes supposed domestic and international threats to Trump’s presidency, including globalists, bankers, the “deep state,” and Islamists. The memo characterizes the Russia story as a plot to sabotage Trump’s nationalist agenda. It asserts that globalists and Islamists are seeking to destroy America. The memo also includes a set of recommendations, arguing that the problem constitutes a national-security priority. “Globalists and Islamists recognize that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national and political identity, must be destroyed,” the memo warns. It argues that this has led “Islamists [to] ally with cultural Marxists,” but that in the long run, “Islamists will co-opt the movement in its entirety.” Higgins wrote the memo in late May, and at some point afterwards it began circulating among people outside the White House associated with the Trump campaign to whom Higgins had given it.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Higgins’s bosses at the NSC were not pleased with the memo, sources say, the creation of which was not part of Higgins’s job. Higgins, seen as an ally of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, had only served on the council for a couple months.
Higgins had also “pushed for declassification of documents having to do with radical Islam and Iran,” according to a source close to the White House. A source close to Higgins said that specifically, Higgins had been pushing for the declassification of Presidential Study Directive 11, a classified report produced in 2010 by the Obama administration which presaged the Arab Spring, outlining unrest throughout the Middle East. The directive has become a shibboleth of activists such as Frank Gaffney, who see it as evidence of the Obama administration’s links to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups.
Higgins’s past writings focus on similar themes. “National Security officials are prohibited from developing a factual understanding of Islamic threat doctrines, preferring instead to depend upon 5th column Muslim Brotherhood cultural advisors,” he wrote in September. Higgins gave an interview to the Daily Caller News Foundation last year that outlines many of the same ideas laid out in the memo.
Interview with Daily Caller
http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/02/former-dod-official-warns-america-is-on-the-wrong-track-to-fighting-war-on-terror-video/
Directive 11 (Obama)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/world/middleeast/17diplomacy.html
Sounds like exactly the right man for the job to me.
Nothing gets you in trouble faster in D.C. than telling the obvious truth.
McMaster is NOT to be trusted. I wonder which offended him the most, calling out islamists or calling out globalists?
recent article
Former NSC Senior Director: ‘Coordinated Attack’ on President Trump by Media, Obama Loyalists
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3567691/posts
A former senior director of the National Security Council under President George W. Bush said on Thursday that the liberal media and Obama loyalists inside and outside of the federal government had executed a “coordinated attack” on President Donald Trump since he was elected.
Michael Doran made the remarks at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, where he is a senior fellow on Middle East security and was a panelist for a discussion at the institute on Russian meddling in the U.S. 2016 presidential election. The conversation quickly shifted to Trump and his campaign’s relationship with the Russians and the ongoing investigation into it.
Master MUST go
If the treasonists succeeded in impeaching Trump on blatantly obvious fake charges, what do you think would happen? Would it be CW2? How would that break out? Riots in the streets then combat against cops and the military? I can’t see that happening being that I know a lot of cops and vets who are 100% behind Trump. Is it possible the military would arrest the treasonists? I just can’t fathom how it would turn out of the enemies of this country succeeded in removing him.
“Sounds like exactly the right man for the job to me.”
If he had kept it quiet.
Whoa! Sounds like Higgins and Doran nailed it - - and now they’re out. There really are some dark forces afoot in our USA.
Another article
McMaster declares war on Trump loyalists, continues NSC purge
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3573457/posts
National security adviser H.R. McMaster continues to purge conservatives from the ranks of the National Security Council.
On Thursday, McMaster fired Col. Derek Harvey, a renowned Middle East expert who served under Gen. David Petraeus. Neither the White House nor the National Security Council gave a reason for Harvey’s firing.
Harvey is recognized in national security circles as a brilliant Middle East strategist. The Weekly Standard (which first reported Harvey’s firing) describes him as an “out-of-the-box thinker who has shown a keen knack for identifying threats before they’ve matured.” The report then cites a passage from Bob Woodward’s 2008 book “The War Within,” which delivers an intimate look into Harvey’s remarkable background:
This may be an even more far-fetched proposition than what may people think of the so-called conspiracy theories, but let me just suggest that if you have a special task force assigned to threat mitigation appropriately compartmentalized and highly covert, you wouldn’t want to aid your enemy’s paranoia but informing them that you are aware of them and doing something about it.
In other words, maybe this is getting handled in the black, and we don’t need people raising red flags about it.
Probably not though
Cernovich is tearing McMaster to shreds.
https://twitter.com/cernovich/status/892819580355096576
#McMasterFacts.
He’s a Trump appointee, I don’t understand why Trump is putting up with him.
I like Trump, but he has done a crappy job of putting together a team that’s going to drain the swamp, seems like they’re expanding the swamp.
Rehire and promote Rich Higgins, fire McMaster. Sounds like Higgins is the patriot and McMaster is deep state.
No flag officer promoted by 0bama can be trusted. How dumb do you have to be?
I love Pepe. I spend almost as much time lurking 4chan as I do on free republic anymore.
Yep. If Trump had not been elected, he’d have been fired by the #uniparty a long time ago. ‘Course, they never would have hired him in the first place.
McMaster Leaks webage https://archive.is/8igvU.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.