Posted on 02/10/2020 7:39:24 AM PST by caww
President Trump is making good on his promises to “drain the swamp” and cut Obama-era holdovers from his staffs, especially the critical and recently controversial National Security Council.
Officials confirmed that Trump and national security adviser Robert O’Brien have cut 70 positions inherited from former President Barack Obama, who had fattened the staff to 200.
Since entering the White House, Trump has relied on staffs smaller than previous administrations and has noted how prior president’s had a much smaller NSC team.
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Exactly,
It’s fun though!
Lean mean and not too far in between...
Disagree. These CIA/Deep state plants were the source of the “whistleblower” farce. They were listening in (per their job) to Trump’s calls and probably reporting every word to Schiff.
Why keep such people around? Because you are forced to. I do agree with you in the sense that Trump and his closest people assumed these snakes could be managed, and firing them outright would cause a destructive war with the deep state and their controlled media he couldn’t afford at the time.
What is really shows is that the President of the USA is becoming more of a figurehead every day. Trump is fighting it, but it tells me Obama was truly a puppet of the permanent bureaucracy and deep state.
OTOH #2 “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer”
Getting ready for the next 4 years.
I don't think they stayed in place so Trump could entrap them. Rush said on his show last week, that McMasters was advised to cut the NSC staff and he did not and Trump can't focus on everything. I don't think the size of the NSC staff was a priority point when he entered office.
It’s about time!
Pres Obama’s CYA maneuver of January 3, 2017-——
his signing of NSA Data-Sharing Order Section 2.3 out of AG Lynch’s office ——is the coupe d’etat to blow out The Deep State.
Obama’s original ex/order contains some unusual language particularly the convoluted language WRT “The Strategic Delay of Section 2.3 of Obama’s Executive Order 12333.”
NOTE WELL: Prior to the formal signing of Section 2.3, greater latitude ALREADY existed within the White House in regards to collection of information – especially in relation to the Trump Campaign. However, once signed, Section 2.3 granted broad latitude to inter-agency sharing of information.
But by the time Obama’s new executive order was signed on January 3, 2017, all that information was already in the possession of Obama White House.
Thus, Susan Rice’s January 20, 2017 email to herself takes on an even greater significance b/c no one was ever supposed to know about the REAL meaning of Obama’s retroactive actions.....until Rice stupidly laid it all out in an official email.
When Susan Rice stupidly wrote a memo to herself, she inadvertently confessed to a series of crimes that added the time line and inferences about what the outgoing Obama administration illegally concealed from incoming President Trump and his aides.
After-the-fact memos are rarely a good idea....they reveal things the author never intended——as did Susan Rice in her now-infamous email to herself on Trump’s inauguration day.
Suzan skipped down the Yellowbrick Road, along with the mental midgets of the Obama Administraton.
Obama’s FBI, DOJ, ODNI, CIA and intelligence officials flipped a finger at protocol....and even worse ....they were intentionally dishonest with incoming President Trump and key members of his new administration.
Obviously their lack of honesty was a serious issue.......but flipping off established protocol had serious ramifications.
This was a “justification memo”......outgoing National Security Advisor Susan Rice needed to explain why there have been multiple false and misleading statements given to the incoming President Trump and all of his officials.
This is not a “CYA” memo, this is a justification memo for use AFTER the Trump-Russia collusion/conspiracy narrative collapsed; if the impeachment effort failed.
Her intellectually facile “By-The-Book” reference -refers to both she and then-President Obama being told by CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director Comey, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, that President Trump was the subject of an active counterintelligence investigation to determine if he was under the influence of the Russian government. But they NEVER told candidate Trump about it.
Even the timing of Rice’s Oz-ish memo, written 15 minutes prior to the end of the Obama administration, is ex-post-facto useful as evidence of the author’s intent.......as Suzan stupidly confesses to a host of crimes.
What people miss about Susan Rice and her need to write that last memo is her attempt to craft a record of a ‘COUNTER-INTEL’ operation that was ongoing and that Obama had instructed that everything be done ‘by the book’.
What is missing is that during a counter-intel investigation, it is permissible to lie, or in official terms ‘to disseminate disinformation’.
As long as the Obama spying was characterized as a counter-intel operation, it was legal to have words and actions left in place that might be discovered as untrue.
In other words, Rice’s final memo was an attempt to carve out a last minute get-out-of-jail pass for all those involved in the spying.
Rice likely foresaw that Congressional hearings might uncover false and perjured statements on the part of persons in the spy operation to which the response would be “So what? It was a Counter-Intel operation.”
This is why it was IMPERATIVE for Barr and Durham to investigate the ORIGINS because if the origins revealed no predicate, no basis, no genuine probable cause for launching a counter-intel operation, then Rice’s feeble stay-out-of-jail memo would fall apart.
Absolutely. That is only half the needed action. Some are now Civil Service protected. Need to change that.
The day after acquittal WAS Day One.
Scorched Earth time.
COOL! Good start.
“ Why did he need to wait 3 years?”
FISA surveillance works both ways.
I have to wonder why Trump didn’t do this day one?
I think he thought people would behave professionally in the WH & NSC. I remember Limbaugh saying on the air right after the election he had a golf outing or something with Trump. Trump said something to the effect that everybody (meaning the Rat supporting crowd!) would calm down get over their disappoint and all would get back to work. Limbaugh tried to convince that was not going to happen with these people. Trump just at first couldn’t see people being steamed for that long.
A federal appeals court has now lifted the injunction that had been in place preventing President Trump’s executive orders from going into effect. Now that the injunction has been lifted, the orders will be in full effect.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2019/10/08/executive-orders-impact-federal-workers/
more winning....................................
After the Obama purges this was something the GOP could have informed him of...but chose not to. Up until 2019 the Republican party had done more to obstruct this administration than to aid it. Even now, GOP backing of the President is half-hearted at best.
Are there some in the capitol who believe in what the President is attempting to do? YES! But just wait until the RATS make some new, baseless charge....there won't be enough syrup in Canada to cover the waffles
Exactly.
None should teach at War College...NONE!!! I sent a note to Contact the Whitehouse on that.
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