Donald Trump is freezing out National Security Council experts: report

[OKIsItJustMe]

Source: Salon

Thursday, Feb 2, 2017 10:29 PM UTC

Donald Trump is freezing out National Security Council experts: report

The president has created a barrier separating himself from those with the most policymaking knowledge

Matthew Rozsa

National Security Advisor Michael Flynn is stacking the National Security Council with friends of the Trump administration in a move insiders fear will create a wall between President Trump and the intelligence community.

Flynn’s appointments — announced Thursday, according to a Politico report — include David Cattler, a former Defense Intelligence Agency official; John Eisenberg, a former Justice Department official; Kenneth Juster, a former Commerce and State Department official; and Kevin Harrington, a former managing director and head of research for the global macro hedge fund Thiel Macro LLC — which was owned by Trump friend Peter Thiel.

Cattler will specialize in regional affairs, Eisenberg will be the NSC’s top legal adviser, Juster will oversee economic policy, and Harrington will be in charge of strategic planning.

All four of these new appointments have the title of deputy assistant to the president.

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[ffr]

1. Who needs the IC, when he's prepared to defeat ISIS by himself

Or was it, he's the only one who can defeat ISIS? I'm beginning to lose track.

Questions rise about tRump-ordered raid in Yemen - The Hill
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028584825

[Mc Mike]

2. If that orange imbecile lets the US get hit, again,

he should be strung up by the yarbles wherever the new ground zero is.

[Chasstev365]

3. Start planning the Coup that arrests Trump, Pence, Bannon, and Flynn!

[2naSalit]

4. We're already really late on getting that started up.

but I'm all for it.

[EarthFirst]

5. A coup is often not neat and tidy like a MoveOn assembly in Washington D.C.

Just so that some who are bemoaning the recent 'violence' know what to expect.

[iluvtennis]

6. He's putting this nation at risk by not relying on the established intelligence agencies and..

...the ones who have done it for years. It take years to build up the know know to gather and analyze intelligence data.

I'm very scared. I really want to move out of the US...gonna explore the probabilities of doing that.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

7. No wonder the Yemen thingy went bad...

... eom.

[titaniumsalute]

8. I gotta say that the military brass

Whom have massive egos...and have worked decades to get where they are...might just say FUCK YOU to the NSC if it came down to it. I can't imagine that he brass are happy from the JCoS and down are happy at all.

[TomCADem]

9. When Trump's Incompetence Leads To An Attack on the US...

...Watch Trump then pat himself on the back for predicting that something terrible would happen, and cheer lead to invade Iran even if the terrorist attack originated from Saudi Arabia.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

10. They'll blame Obama

[OKIsItJustMe]

11. Sad, but true

After all, 9/11 was Clinton’s fault.