Trump loyalist installed in top intelligence post on National Security Council

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Source: Politico

NATIONAL SECURITY

Trump loyalist installed in top intelligence post on National Security Council
Michael Ellis, a deputy to White House lawyer John Eisenberg, started in the role on Monday.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/03/trump-loyalist-national-security-council-119416

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Ellis is the lawyer who told officials in the NSC to move the Ukraine call transcript to a highly classified server.

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Michael Ellis, a W.H. lawyer and former counsel to the House Intel Committee under Devin Nunes, has been named senior director for intel on the National Security Council, the latest instance of Trump elevating a loyalist to control the intel community.

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. I'm having problems editing the OP. Here's what I want it to say:

NATIONAL SECURITY

Trump loyalist installed in top intelligence post on National Security Council

Michael Ellis, a deputy to White House lawyer John Eisenberg, started in the role on Monday.

By NATASHA BERTRAND and DANIEL LIPPMAN

03/03/2020 09:23 AM EST

A White House lawyer and former counsel to the House Intelligence Committee under Devin Nunes has been named senior director for intelligence on the National Security Council, the latest instance of President Donald Trump elevating a trusted loyalist to control the intelligence community.

Michael Ellis, a deputy to White House lawyer John Eisenberg, started in the role on Monday, according to a senior administration official and a former national security official. Ellis left the counsel’s office so won’t be dual-hatted with his new job. (1)

The office of the director for intelligence serves as the day to day connective tissue between the intelligence community and the White House. Sensitive information coming in from the intelligence agencies will go to that office, especially if it is in hard copy form. The office also coordinates covert action activities between the White House and the intelligence community, and it’s where the NSC server is housed that stores the most sensitive classified information.

Ellis has been in the White House counsel’s office since 2017, and was reportedly one of the White House officials who showed Nunes intelligence reports that led to the congressman’s probe into surveillance of the Trump campaign team. (2), (3)

Ellis also featured in the Ukraine scandal, according to testimony heard by the House Intelligence Committee during the impeachment investigation. (4)

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(1) https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/16/lawyer-ukraine-impeachment-trump-048755

(2) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/devin-nunes-intelligence-reports.html

(3) https://apnews.com/633fcec02f0748d4b23fc3df81d97000

(4) https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/01/white-house-vindman-ukraine-call-063892

[sakabatou]

2. They put loyalty to their king and not to the country

[LudwigPastorius]

3. It's going to take decades to rebuild our government...

...and purge the Trump scum.

Who would have thought that 7+ decades after World War II we would have to undergo our own de-Nazification?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Another lackey in the Trump kakistocracy.