Posted on 08/02/2017 8:45:44 PM PDT by BurgessKoch
Since replacing Michael Flynn as National Security Adviser, H.R. McMaster has worked to wrest control of the National Security Council away from the nationalist wing of the administration, carrying out a series of high-profile staffing changes in the process.
The latest move: Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence at the NSC, was shown the door today by McMaster, who, according to a White House official, decided that "a different set of experiences is best-suited to carrying that work forward." The White House said that Cohen-Watnick will remain in another national security position in the administration.
Think back: Cohen-Watnick first gained notoriety in March as one of Devin Nunes' purported sources for the alleged unmasking of Trump team associates during incidental intelligence collection by the Obama administration. McMaster reportedly tried to force him out of his position after the CIA deemed him as "a threat," but that move was shot down by Bannon and Jared Kushner after they appealed directly to President Trump.
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K.T. McFarland - Just days after Bannon lost his seat at the NSC, McMaster also pushed out Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland, a former Fox News contributor and Flynn ally. McFarland stayed in the administration — her nomination to become ambassador to Singapore is currently pending — but she lost her key national security position.
Tera Dahl - McMaster reassigned Dahl, a deputy chief of staff at the NSC who mostly occupied an administrative role, in early July, per Buzzfeed. Dahl was known to have close ties to Bannon, having previously worked as a columnist at Breitbart News. She had founded a think tank with the wife of NSC aide Sebastian Gorka that warned against the use of "politically correct" terms when discussing terrorism.
Derek Harvey - Last week, McMaster removed Harvey, the NSC's Middle East adviser, from his post, per Foreign Policy. Though the reasoning wasn't immediately made clear, Harvey was brought in by Flynn and was a noted hawk on Iran. He had also drafted a list of Obama-era "holdovers" employed by the NSC, a nod to the "deep state" theory in some conservative circles.
Rich Higgins - News broke earlier today that Bannon ally Rich Higgins, a director of strategic planning for the National Security Council, was fired last month after crafting a memo warning that "globalists and Islamists" were undertaking a "Maoist insurgency" to undermine President Trump via "political warfare," per The Atlantic.
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Why is Trump allowing this purge happen?
Don’t understand this.
Trump is listening to some very dangerous people.
Hope he has someone on his side to wake him up.
This the same McMaster that hasn’t said a word about a Coast Guard Admiral in a state of mutiny? The same McMaster that completely opposed the direction Mike Flynn was proposing? And has he stopped leaks? Has he fired a single Obama holdover? (God only knows why we have ANY Obama holdovers)
McMaster might be great running a tank battalion doing tank things. But in policy making, he’s just another traitorous, globalist, moslem-loving, establishment POS.
He isn’t on the MAGA train.
And check this out too: http://www.mcmasterleaks.com
Thanks for the concise list.
BOOM! Report=> McMaster Caught Privately Communicating WH Internal Politics to Deep State McCabe
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3573037/posts
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Trump is being advised extremely badly, by people who either don't know what the bleeding hell they're doing, are part of those who DO want to bring down Trump anyway and every way possible, or both.
Tillerson stinks too, Pence is useless as VEEP, Sessions is the wrong man for the position he has, and on and on and on.
Trump ( we ) may have won the election, but this amateur hour has got to stop and the sooner the better! OTOH....it appears that EVERYONE with any kind of knowledge and political experience is against our president and can't be trusted.
sticks = STINKS.
Cernovich went on a tear last night about MacMaster. Lots of it got deleted, but not all.
http://web.archive.org/web/20170802041318/https:/twitter.com/Cernovich/status/89259
Steve Bannon’s our guy...
I understand Trump really likes McMaster. He’s all gaga over Generals, hopefully won’t let it impede his judgement, this guy is bad news. Of course, Trump’s known about the purges, the Islamic stuff so I don’t know what to make of it.
Bannion was not a principal on the NSC, he was an advisor to a principal.
It gets tiresome to see nonsense everyday even Kremlinology was more enlightening that suppositions, rumors and outright lies.
Donald Trump knows what he is doing and if McMaster is appropriately doing what he wants done.
Is this the Rumor Central Office of Paranoia, Inc?
But in April, soon after McMaster was brought in, he launched a restructuring of the NSC that — among other things — saw Bannon lose his seat at the table, along with his most direct influence on the country's national security policy.
This was discussed at the time. The fact of the matter was that Bannon was not planning to remain on the NSC and was not attempting to be a part of it; it was, iow, a short term arrangement to begin with. The propaganda about how horrible Trump's people are is seriously ramping up. Axios is NO MORE TRUSTWORTHY than Politico.
The new tsunami of propaganda and influence by the media is how horrible Trump’s appointments and hires are. Turns out they are to a man globalists, Islamists, traitors, deep staters (boy am I sick the words “deep state”), opposing Trump, subverting him, etcetcetc. And people are believing these news outlets (and I use the word “news” loosely) even though these outlets HATE TRUMP.
Somehow true believers like Flynn and Mooch can be fired easily while swamp dwellers are forever.
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