Abolish the National Security Council (Daniel Greenfield)

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Abolish the National Security Council

Posted by Daniel Greenfield

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the latest star of the Democrat effort to undo the 2016 election, is still at work on the National Security Council. While Trump supporters on the NSC like Rich Higgins and Ezra Cohen-Watnick were forced out, Vindman won't be. NSC staffers who criticized Obama holdovers or sought to expose their misbehavior are gone, but Vindman is still there while undermining Trump.

 And that’s the SNAFU of things on the NSC.

 The National Security Council has been ground zero in the campaign against President Trump from the beginning. General Flynn’s appointment as National Security Advisor had touched the third rail because the NSC had been used to coordinate anti-Trump operations in the Susan Rice era.

 The NSC doesn’t answer to Congress. Its members are meant to advise the president. (Except when they’re actually working for a previous president.) They command the implements of foreign policy, traditionally the weakest element in domestic politics, but not when they start treating their domestic political opponents as agents of a foreign state. And the size of the NSC has gotten out of control.

 Under Obama, the NSC staff hit 400 people. That’s up from a dozen during its Cold War origins.

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[truth_seeker]

This Permanent Administrative State, was the problem long long BEFORE Trump.

Reagan knw about it, and the fact that the relatively few political appointments he could make, would barely make a difference among the sea of career types.

Republicans criticize big costly government, but when they have the chance to do something, they fail, like Ryan and McCainon Obamacare.