WH dismisses NSC aide after harsh criticism of Trump at closed-door think tank gathering

[kpete]

White House dismisses NSC aide after harsh criticism of Trump
Official complained about the president at a closed-door think tank gathering.
By ELIANA JOHNSON 02/18/17 02:21 PM EST


The White House abruptly dismissed a senior National Security Council aide on Friday after receiving reports that he had publicly laced into the president and his senior aides, including son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump at an event hosted by a Washington think tank.

The aide, Craig Deare, was serving as the NSC's senior director for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Earlier in the week, at a private, off-the-record roundtable hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center for a group of about two dozen scholars, Deare harshly criticized the president and his chief strategist Steve Bannon and railed against the dysfunction paralyzing the Trump White House, according to a source familiar with the situation.


He complained in particular that senior national security aides do not have access to the president -- and gave a detailed and embarrassing readout of Trump's call with Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/white-house-nsc-aide-craig-deare-dismissed-235175

[CincyDem]

1. And the loyalty purges continue. n/t

[Wellstone ruled]

3. This is what this

Treasonous bunch is all about. Bannon is running the show and he wants war like yesterday.

[Yo_Mama]

5. This is not about loyalty, but about improper disclosure of confidential information.

It does harm not just to Trump, but to the US, to have meetings/calls/discussions between high-level government officials of foreign nations and high-level government officials of the US.

[Yo_Mama]

2. If he publicly disclosed the information, he should be fired.

Communications from other governments are presumed confidential. He should not write an insecure email about that call, and he definitely should not have been discussing it with a panel of scholars.

There are rules, and whether a government official is unhappy with Bush, Obama or Trump (to use the last three), those rules should be followed. Anyone who will not follow them should be immediately discharged.

[rzemanfl]

4. Republicans do that all the time. What's good for the goose....n/t

[Augiedog]

6. The only thing that will save this administration from self immolation is a fake war

[Achilleaze]

7. Ahhh, me. Sadly I think you are right. I guess within 2 weeks.

The KGOP know more bilge will overflow from their corrupted cesspool, and they are likely to make war happen fast to distract. I look for black ops false flag evil KGOP shit to hit the fan promptly.

[LudwigPastorius]

8. "...senior national security aides do not have access to the president..."

Do they WANT another 9/11?

It's just like when Richard Clarke was frozen out from speaking to Bush about the Al Quaeda/Bin Laden threat in 2001.

Why do I have the feeling that we're going to lose a city...quickly followed by our Constitution?