Posted on 08/03/2017 3:57:47 PM PDT by Rockitz
CTH gave several warnings to be cautious and careful when reviewing political media as there are obvious attempts to push specific agenda narratives. We could tell something was up in the DC proletariat. The signals are often subtle but also follow a familiar pattern. The latest round of anti-McMaster stories are transparently part of that effort.
The long knives are out after National Security Advisor McMaster, and those knives are transparently connected to a very familiar and historic ideological world-view.
Example: Circa News writer, Sara Carter, today pushes a story about HR McMaster giving Susan Rice access -via a letter of approval- to ongoing classified intelligence; at least that’s the way the narrative engineers who pick up the ball from Carter are selling it.
Except it’s not true; that angle/narrative is entirely false.
In the letter (included below) National Security Advisor HR McMaster simply gave former NSA Susan Rice permission to continue accessing historic classified intelligence that she created and received while Mrs. Rice was President Obama’s NSA lead.
McMaster is NOT giving Rice ongoing access to new intelligence information, or current classified intelligence information. His letter was simply authorizing her to reference and have access to the historic intel work product she previously, personally and specifically was involved in.
Obviously Rice’s prior NSC work-product remains classified and as such cannot leave the control of the National Security Council. Classified NSC information can be as innocuous as emails or memos to colleagues on the NSC during her tenure as NatSec Advisor, or it could be her schedule and calendar of events. The McMaster letter simply allows Rice to have continued access to prior content she was in charge of. Nothing more.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
A reporter doesn't "originate new thoughts"? I'm not sure what that means. She's a reporter. She reports news. She does a pretty good job of it.
It's my belief that FReepers would like an honest government run by patriotic public servants. We don't dig it when 90% of the names we read about have a giant question mark over them saying "can this person be trusted or are they a swamp dweller?"
And when there's no outward evidence of things being cleaned up, when there's no outward evidence that the many criminals in high political places are being brought to justice, it makes a person tend to think that some of the people in charge are the idiots that many seem to think. Or... they're part of the problem.
When the Trump administration starts producing visible results of the swamp being drained and nationally-known democrats being "locked up", then we'll stop assuming that there are inept dunderheads stumbling around in the administration.
“National Security Advisor HR McMaster simply gave former NSA Susan Rice permission to continue accessing historic classified intelligence that she created and received while Mrs. Rice was President Obama’s NSA lead”
Why? She has zero need to retain any of that product. Think someone in the USN nuclear submarines gets to retain and access the things they worked on after they separate? McMaster is an establishment globalist shill, he wants a wider war in Syria to remove Assad. He wants increased tension with Russia. He is against a border wall. He is pro-islam and doesn’t like the term radical Islamic terror.
He kept on numerous Obama staffers.
Ergo, he is a POS and needs to be fired. He is NOT MAGA.
Seems like the difference is more a matter of scale than anything else. Why does Rice ever need ANY access to ANY intelligence EVER again?
>> It’s obvious that McMaster is getting a lot of negative press in the last eight hours. Somebody’s out to get him. <<
Uh.. the press is created by him firing LOTS of people. Only the conservative echo chambers are any thing short of deliriously happy with McMaster. Hardly a case of “someone’s out to get him,” and more a case of “he sure is pissing a lot of people off, and maybe a few of the shocked, outraged people aren’t crossing their t’s perfectly.”
The school asserts that during her residency at A/U, Rice will work primarily on her next book and mentor SIS students on careers in national security.
A/U defines Susan Rice's position with Obama thusly: ”She provided the President with daily national security briefings and was ‘responsible for’ coordinating the formulation and implementation of ‘all aspects’ of the Administration’s foreign and national security policy, intelligence, and military efforts.
American University’s School of International Service
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20016
Phone: 202-885-1000
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CONTACT CONGRESS: Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044
Talking Points: sever all federal funds to this institution while Susan Rice is employed there.
You read a similar argument here earlier today, posted by me.
Things are not always the way FReepers see them. And Trump and Team are not the idiots many seem to think.
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Busy work day, so I didn’t see your earlier post, but I agree with your assessment of POTUS & Co.
Could this be a replay of the Sessions Strategy? Smells similar.
Sundance reads things closely and so far, his analysis has been right on.
Rice might be granted such limited clearance in order to organize her defense.
Not only this, but he is on record - after the unmasking info came out, mind you - that he didn't think what Rice did was wrong. At best, this guy is totally clueless outside of matters of war.
The Obama holdovers are trying to get the administration fighting within itself.
One day they go after Bannon.
The next it’s McMaster.
The Obama holdovers (and Mueller) need to keep as much crap stirred up as possible to stave off the tightening noose regarding Mueller, Comey, Clinton, Rice, DWS, etc.
If Bannon’s out to get him, I’m fine with that.
Why give her access to anything historic or otherwise?
“To stave off the tightening noose regarding Mueller, Comey, Clinton, Rice, DWS, etc.”
I hate to break it you but there is no tightening noose.
Even if Sundance 1s 100% correct with his information and analysis, McMaster needs to go, he is way too much of a DeepState minion.
And Susan Rice needs to go ..... To prison..
Sandy Berger only lost his security clearance for 5 years after stealing documents from the archives.
Bannon is the good guy here. McMaster is the exact opposite of the worldview that Trump voters voted for.
Sundance at TCH is simply wrong. Mcmaster is on an anti trump jihad. He should be fired. He is a globalist. Sundance’s problem is that once he gets an idea in his head he absolutely refuses to entertain any other idea. And he trashes his own readers who dare to disagree.
And why not the more obvious culprits...three NSC staffers McMaster just cut from the team?
Seems to me Steve Bannon has his hands full doing his own job without engaging in a darkened room knife fight with the NSC director.
There's only one reason people keep dragging Bannon's name into this ongoing drama...they'd like him gone as well.
Cernovich on Twitter is the one out to get him. He has a website with McMaster bad press out there. McMaster looks to be very involved with the Deep State.
Our rulers in the Democrat and Republican leadership are pushing people to a place they may regret.
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