NSC Staffer Is Revealed As Whistleblower’s Likely Informant; White House Decides To Cut NSC Staff

Red State ^ | 3:00 pm on October 12, 2019 | Elizabeth Vaughn

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On Friday, a source told Fox News that a National Security Council (NSC) staffer had spoken about Trump’s July 25th phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to “multiple” people outside of the NSC, and had characterized the call as “outrageous.” This occurred before the whistleblower’s complaint had been submitted. This development had been reported to then-senior National Security Council (NSC) leadership.

According to Fox:

The development comes as Fiona Hill, a former special assistant to the president who worked on European and Russian affairs, is set to give a deposition next week. Fox News has reached out to Hill for over a week with questions about whether she helped prep for the July 25 call or received any readout of the call.

Hill departed the White House in July, after working under ex-National Security Advisers H.R. McMaster and John Bolton.

Separately, President Trump’s new National Security Advisor, Robert O’Brien, appeared on Fox Business News’ Lou Dobbs on Thursday and said he plans to reduce the number of staff members of the National Security Council over the next 15 months to about 100 from the current level of 178. O’Brien said that the Obama administration had over 200 staffers on its NSC while the George W. Bush administration had only 100. He told Dobbs that, “It just ballooned into a massive, you know, bureaucracy…under the last administration. We want to bring it back to historic levels. We think we can be more efficient and better serve the President with that sort of a streamlined organization.”

[boxlunch]

I’m cheering. You just summed the whole rotten thing up, problem and solution, in four paragraphs. 👏👏👏 Well done! Hope someone in high places reads FR.

[Ann Archy]

Seems like the ONLY person they SPY on is TRUMP and his associates! FIRE THEM ALL!

[Ann Archy]

McMaster was a DISASTER!! He’s a LIBERAL DEMOCRAT!! SCUM.

[knighthawk]

““I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen”

No one of them thought the same when they used Italians, Australians, English foreign agents and Australians to spy on Trump...

Fire them all!