Trump rejects push to oust NSC aide

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump has overruled a decision by his national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, to sideline a key intelligence operative who fell out of favor with some at the Central Intelligence Agency, two sources told POLITICO.

On Friday, McMaster told the National Security Council’s senior director for intelligence programs, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, that he would be moved to another position in the organization.

The conversation followed weeks of pressure from career officials at the CIA who had expressed reservations about the 30-year-old intelligence operative and pushed for his ouster.

But Cohen-Watnick appealed McMaster’s decision to two influential allies with whom he had forged a relationship while working on Trump’s transition team — White House advisers Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner. They brought the matter to Trump on Sunday, and the president agreed that Cohen-Watnick should remain as the NSC’s intelligence director, according to two people with knowledge of the episode.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-national-security-mcmaster-overrule-236065

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Who the hell is running the White House?

Who made this decision? Not McMaster. He's just the national security adviser.

Bannon and Kushner? Trump is letting them run the show. We elected these people
even less than we didn't elect Trump!

[MedusaX]

2. Yet another promise broken

The deal was that McMaster could make personnel decisions with the exceptions of KT McFarland & the Principals Committee members (Bannon)....

But now he has experienced the same treatment as Mattis & Tillerson.....

If the Generals are ever going to squash the WH insurgents... maybe this will speed things up

[iluvtennis]

3. SMDH...McMaster doens't evn have autonomy to decide who is/is not on his team. GAH

[dalton99a]

4. What a clusterfuck.

[salin]

5. Another example of projection. Looking for moles? This looks like a Bannon/Kushner mole.

Bet there are others. Bet they report back (that is behind the back of their superiors) to Bannon and Kushner - not about what is best for the Country, but about what can be used to make Trump look better. Or for more nefarious purposes?....

[snooper2]

7. 30 year old dipshit- the career guys will steamroll his ass

[DK504]

6. They jump the chain of command and go straight to the top 2 of the 5 top criminals

to whine and keep a job he is uncapable of by going to the Nazi Grand Wizard and the other traitorous bastard in the WH. The Commie in Cheif over rules the guy incharge. WTF? Doesn McMaster know to keep him out of every circle of intelligence this guy can get his hands on. Will his past come out about his good close freinds the Russians?