February 16, 2017

5 Disturbing New Revelations About Trump's Dysfunctional National Security Council @alternet

5 Disturbing New Revelations About Trump's Dysfunctional National Security Council @alternet:

"The National Security Council was intended to help presidents make sense of the daunting world of foreign policy and security threats. Not so in the Trump administration, according to a frigthening inside look from the New York Times on Monday, it appears staff is concerned not only with threats from adversaries, but with those from within. The appointment of the incompetent white supremacist Steve Bannon to the Council was just the beginning. From a National Security advisor who doesn't know how to call the National Guard, but does know how to reach Putin, to botched executive orders and 'Make America Great' again mugs showing up at meetings with foreign leaders, it is, "so far a very dysfunctional N.S.C.,” Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence told the Times."