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End the War on Trump, Abolish the National Security Council
Frontpage Mag ^ | November 14, 2019 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 11/16/2019 5:36:31 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the latest star of the Democrat effort to undo the 2016 election, is still at work on the National Security Council. While Trump supporters on the NSC like Rich Higgins and Ezra Cohen-Watnick were forced out, Vindman won't be. NSC staffers who criticized Obama holdovers or sought to expose their misbehavior are gone, but Vindman is still there while undermining Trump.

And that’s the SNAFU of things on the NSC.

The National Security Council has been ground zero in the campaign against President Trump from the beginning. General Flynn’s appointment as National Security Advisor had touched the third rail because the NSC had been used to coordinate anti-Trump operations in the Susan Rice era.

The NSC doesn’t answer to Congress. Its members are meant to advise the president. (Except when they’re actually working for a previous president.) They command the implements of foreign policy, traditionally the weakest element in domestic politics, but not when they start treating their domestic political opponents as agents of a foreign state. And the size of the NSC has gotten out of control.

Under Obama, the NSC staff hit 400 people. That’s up from a dozen during its Cold War origins.

And it’s the staff that’s the problem.

The NSC was born in the Truman era, not as a byzantine government bureaucracy full of endless departments and hundreds of staffers, but as a means for key foreign policy and national defense figures to coordinate, develop options and then present them to the President of the United States.

People like Vindman or Fiona Hill were never supposed to be there.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alexandervindman; benrhodes; coup; democrats; fionahill; foreignpolicy; greenfield; impeachment; intelligence; irandeal; leftists; military; nsc; obama; rogueagency; trump; uncheckedpower
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1 posted on 11/16/2019 5:36:31 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

PING!


2 posted on 11/16/2019 5:37:50 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It’s absolutely insane that Vidman is still there


3 posted on 11/16/2019 5:46:18 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“National Security Council”
...Blame Harry S. Truman...
(By Executive Order from January 22, 1946)


4 posted on 11/16/2019 5:47:18 PM PST by Repeal The 17th
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Flynn wanted to reform all of them. I wish he could come in and help POTUS with a major shake up.


5 posted on 11/16/2019 5:47:38 PM PST by McGavin999 (“Look into it” does not mean dig up dirt, it means find the truth)
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6 posted on 11/16/2019 5:50:41 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Another great article by Daniel Greenfield.


7 posted on 11/16/2019 5:50:46 PM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
End the War on Trump, Abolish the National Security Council...

...End the War on America's Free Constitutional Republic by dismantling the rest of the 80%+ unconstitutional Totalitarian Federal Government.

8 posted on 11/16/2019 5:56:42 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Why should the NSC be abolished because you don’t like people who work there?
Do Obama did & restaff it.


9 posted on 11/16/2019 5:57:15 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Yes the NSC is bloated. Obama increased federal staff by 100. The NSC had 100 under Bush.


10 posted on 11/16/2019 6:09:02 PM PST by Lopeover (Patriots Fight)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“Vindman is still there while undermining Trump”

By, for, of... PSYCH!

11 posted on 11/16/2019 6:24:53 PM PST by coaster123 (Distrust everyone under fifty.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“The NSC doesn’t answer to Congress.”

Or apparently the President either.


12 posted on 11/16/2019 6:29:46 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: nuconvert

Why? Because it is unneeded, not provided for in the Constitution, and it gives the proven treasonous CIA too much of a voice in the White House. It has a demonstrated commitment to “independence” and has been a nest of spies against Trump.

A national security state, and a free constitutional republic are mutually exclusive.


13 posted on 11/16/2019 6:37:15 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

wow!
an advisory council is probably okay, might even help once in a while

an entrenched bureaucrappy however is NOT what President Truman had in mind, and certainly we have FAR too much of it!


14 posted on 11/16/2019 6:42:34 PM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not , born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The National Security Council has been ground zero in the campaign against President Trump from the beginning.

Fire them all and move on...

15 posted on 11/16/2019 8:20:39 PM PST by GOPJ (Term limit the bureaucracy... NOT elected officials.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I would simply do what a President Washington would do: measure rope and put others away.


16 posted on 11/16/2019 8:27:33 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: DesertRhino

” It has a demonstrated commitment to “independence” and has been a nest of spies against Trump.”

NSC executives: Donald Trump, President of the United States (Chairman)
Michael Pence, Vice President
Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State
Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense
Rick Perry, Secretary of Energy
Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security

If the President doesn’t like people working there, he can get rid of them


17 posted on 11/16/2019 8:48:10 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

400 is way too many cooks in the kitchen. Find 12 guys and send the rest to do border patrol in North Dakota.


18 posted on 11/16/2019 9:27:16 PM PST by lurk
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’d rather fire 90% of the NSC, 90% of the State Department, and 90% of CIA/NSA/FBI desk jockeys than keep an anti-American deep state that “resists” the duly-elected President of the United States. I’m okay with field operatives from those agencies, unless they prove that they are also traitors, but the specialists in whispers are not on our side.


19 posted on 11/16/2019 10:48:25 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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Re: “While Trump supporters on the NSC like Rich Higgins and Ezra Cohen-Watnick were forced out, Vindman won't be.”

And Trump allows this to happen because....?

Why would anyone in the Trump Administration support Trump when they know Trump will never help them if they get fired, or indicted, or libeled, or politically assaulted?

20 posted on 11/17/2019 12:36:05 AM PST by zeestephen
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