Posted on 02/13/2017 7:34:11 AM PST by rktman
National Security Council (NSC) career staffers are purging their social media accounts of any past anti-Trump sentiments, the New York Times reports.
The purge comes amid increased suspicion among NSC political appointees that career officials are leaking key details of the Trump administration’s possible courses of action. These White House political appointees reportedly call these leaks the “insider threat” and are considering monitoring the phone calls and emails of career staffers.
The White House was reportedly incensed by leaks within the NSC of plans by Secretary of Defense James Mattis to have U.S. sailors board an Iranian ship in international waters to search for contraband headed to Houthi rebels in Yemen. Mattis set aside the operation after the plans leaked.
Political appointees on the NSC, like White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, have instead resorted to drafting plans with little paper trail.
“They ran all of these executive orders outside of the normal construct,” one official told Foreign Policy in late January. The effort reflects a deep distrust of career NSC officials, and others within the bureaucracy, who the White House fears will leak plans to the media.
The NSC also experienced an exodus of career officials prior to President Donald Trump’s inauguration, with many officials saying they did not want to work for him. “Career people are looking get out and go back to their agencies and pressure is being put on them to get them to stay,” a U.S. official told The Guardian in December.
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Of all people, these clowns should know you can never purge anything completely from the internet.
All thanks to the wayback machine, which, unless someone nukes the heck out of it, will keep on recording all the pages of the internet.
#TopSecretSpy
I don’t understand the thinking. NSC folks are supposed to follow orders, not create policy.
Like I said, ‘”New and Improved” hildabeast wiper cloths’.
Staffers are going to see what purging is about.
Yeah, they of all people should know this.
The Swamp has many parts and layers. While the plug has been pulled, it’ll take years for much of the sewage to drain out.
You mean the way the Obama administration attacked/harassed those who made their way to his list of bad guys?
The Left are upset because in many ways, TRUMP ACTS LIKE OBAMA and for 8 years they WEREN’T ALLOWED to criticize him.
Now they can vent their frustrations and attack TRUMP for doing many of the same things Obama did.
Don’t think it’ll take years he moves swiftly and hits from all sides.
The pushback will be unreal. He better shore up his supporters in both houses now or he’ll never get to first base. Building a wall and immigration control is child’s play compared to draining the swamp.
3 million federal workers and four million federal contractors.....he better get some allies out in front quick or this is just campaign bluster...
If they’re Trump haters they should do their hating in a ‘safespace’ — where ever the hell they came from would do just fine... turn in their resignations and go home.
ALL political appointees should have been fired on day one. No one who was loyal to 0bama can be expected to switch that loyalty to Trump.
Weird that their loyalty should be to AMERICA regardless of who’s yer boss. Fidiots.
Wonder if same person that leaked the operation in Yemen.
The binary skeletons in their digital closets will be quickly found, along with deletion trails.
Those proggie, anti-conservative, anti-Constitution (hence anti-American) minions will be outed.
And when the little rats start to rat out the bigger leader rats, more popcorn!
I saw that episode, dude!!!
Every one of the staffers who tweeted anti-Trump messages should be purged today, without further question. Then begin vetting the rest of the career NSC’ers and fire them quickly.
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