Posted on 08/03/2017 7:57:24 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
McMaster had purged Derek Harvey, one of the NSC's best people on the Middle East, for trying to fire Obama holdovers.
"In the late 1980s, Harvey traveled throughout Iraq by taxicab—500 miles, village to village—interviewing locals, sleeping on mud floors with a shower curtain for a door. He [was] full of questions, intensely curious and entirely nonthreatening. After the 1991 Gulf War, when the CIA was predicting the inevitable fall of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Harvey, then a major, insisted that Hussein would survive because members of the Sunni community knew their fortunes were tied to his. He was right. Months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Harvey wrote an intelligence paper declaring that al Qaeda and the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan posed a strategic threat to the United States."
And why was Harvey fired?
That dispute was followed by a bigger one. Bannon and Trump, according to White House officials, pressed McMaster to fire a list of Obama holdovers at the National Security Council who were suspected of leaking to the press. The list of names was compiled by Derek Harvey, a former Defense Intelligence Agency colonel who was initially hired by Flynn. McMaster balked. He refused to fire anyone on the list and asserted that he had the authority to fire and hire National Security Council staff.
And McMaster keeps using that authority to purge patriots from the NSC.
Rich Higgins, a top official of the National Security Council was fired last month after arguing in a memo that President Trump is under sustained attack from subversive forces both within and outside the government who are deploying Maoist tactics to defeat President Trump’s nationalist agenda.
“Globalists and Islamists recognize that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national and political identity, must be destroyed,” the memo warns. It argues that this has led “Islamists [to] ally with cultural Marxists,” but that in the long run, “Islamists will co-opt the movement in its entirety.”
“Because the left is aligned with Islamist organizations at local, national, and international levels, recognition should be given to the fact that they seamlessly interoperate through coordinated synchronized interactive narratives … These attack narratives are pervasive, full spectrum, and institutionalized at all levels. They operate in social media, television, the 24-hour news cycle in all media and are entrenched at the upper levels of the bureaucracies.”
Higgins, seen as an ally of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, had only served on the council for a couple months.
Higgins had also “pushed for declassification of documents having to do with radical Islam and Iran,” according to a source close to the White House. A source close to Higgins said that specifically, Higgins had been pushing for the declassification of Presidential Study Directive 11, a classified report produced in 2010 by the Obama administration which presaged the Arab Spring, outlining unrest throughout the Middle East. The directive has become a shibboleth of activists such as Frank Gaffney, who see it as evidence of the Obama administration’s links to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups.
Higgins, according to another source with direct knowledge of the incident, was called into the White House Counsel’s office the week before last and asked about the memo. On July 21, the Friday of that week, he was informed by McMaster’s deputy Ricky Waddell that he was losing his job.
And so McMaster purges another challenge to the Obama order. And you have to wonder whether he isn't emerging as a national security threat.
Here's a 2016 interview with Higgins.
Political warfare includes both non-violent and violent actions working in synthesis, Higgins says. The left, with enemy-friendly Muslim Brotherhood allies, is able to control the dominant cultural narrative with the media and the government, blinding us in the war on terror and impacting how Americans think, he argues.
Higgins calls for a “strategic and operational pause” in America’s misguided battle to stop the terror. He would, instead, ask new leadership to develop a comprehensive political warfare plan, while removing the subversive policies and personnel causing America to lose this paramount battle.
He cites the “purges” carried out by law enforcement and intelligence officials throughout government, which Phil Haney, Sebastian Gorka and Steve Coughlin have made public.
Obama is out. But the purges continue. At the NSC and across much of the foreign policy sector, Obama's people are still in charge.
Obama is out. But the purges continue.
At the NSC and across much of the foreign policy sector, Obama’s people are still in charge.
Wasn’t McMaster supposed to be wonderful? Sounds like a swamp master to me. Why isn’t the obama admin called out for their clear lack of transparency? Release the directive.
Time to purge McMaster.
I don't understand why Trump allows this, and is moving so slowly.
It is better to be short staffed and not do anything than to do the wrong things. My guess is we could eliminate half of federal workers - esp. managers - and nobody would notice anything.
Why does this man still have a job in the Trump administration? Someone should ask that question at today’s presser.
I think McMaster knows a whole lot more than we do.
I do not understand what Trump is doing (or not doing, in cases like this)...
All this McMaster stuff reads like a novel. Unbelievable.
So was does Trump, who promised to drain the swamp, keep a guy in his administration who is soley a plug in the drain?
Read the Caroline Glick link in the McMaster piece on breitbart now. It says McMaster was recommended by McCain!!!!
the date is August 3rd, 1775.
will the g0vt listen this time and do what is right or will there be war?
In 11 months and one day, we will know.
Read article that Mcmaster just fired three Bannon people.
Don’t know if those three were connected to Bannon.
Mcmaster is a Globalist.
Isn’t this the third pro-Trump person McMaster has let go of? Yet, the president still retains him. Either McMaster is two-faced or these three advisers were, or something else is at work here!
Why is Trump not firing these people?
It would also be easy to find out who is leaking as well. You tell people individual whatever you want kept secret and make different enough. You do this in writing and verbally. When it is reported in the news media it would be easy to trace back.
The washington post revealed telephone transcripts of private conversations from the president. Arrest the reporters and editors and the owner. That would stop the leaks and reveal who gave them the transcripts.
Why is Trump not firing these people?
I’m afraid Trump is just not very interested in diving in the weeds on foreign policy. He’s was a businessman and focused on domestic issues as much as possible.
All the leftists were very happy when Trump appointed McMaster.
Something to keep in mind.
We are still early and the bona-fides of Derek Harvey are still in question.
If he worked on the NSC under Obama regardless of any writings about the islam/left, he’s suspect. It’s one thing to write factually. Something else entirely to actually live it.
I’ll give Trump the mulligan on this one an let him bring in who he wants. I’m not necessarily a fan of McMaster, but he entitled to his own team.
I’m beginning to think McMaster is the swamp.
I’m beginning to lose faith in Trump’s judgement on allowing many of Obama’s people to remain in place. Why in the HELL is he keeping McMaster around? He cannot be trusted and is getting rid of Trump loyalists and keeping former Obama employees.
Maybe Trump will wake up now that the mother of all leaks by the WaPo is publishing full transcripts of his conversations with Mexico & Australia. GET RID OF MCMASTER - HE’S A SWAMP TURD!
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