Time to deal with the problem. 
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.
WaPo has an article today, (thread upstream) where it publishes transcripts of Trump phone calls to Mexico and Australia. From the WaPo article
The Post is publishing reproductions rather than original documents in order to protect sources. The reproductions below also include minor spelling and grammatical mistakes that appeared in the documents.
And I think there's a little more to this....that didn't get leaked.
You arrest the editor and writer. Let them rot in jail for contempt of court when they refuse to talk.
Why does this man still have a job in the Trump administration?
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Why is John Koskinen STILL the Commissioner of the IRS? There are way too many Obama holdovers in the Trump administration that should have been replaced by now.
Actually I was more interested in the spelling and grammatical mistakes as a way to trace back to the leaker.
Get rid of McBastard.
I was in New England last week and saw an Obama 2020 sign on a libtard car. It is funny on it’s face value and I didn’t see as many Bernie stickers as one would assume. Seeing the Obama sign is silly but what is quite serious is that we are actually under Obama’s third term through holdovers and shadow government led by the Iranian Lizard Bitch Jarret.
Trump needs to watch out for this potential mess... dumping Obama hold-overs is absolutely necessary
Had the Republican party been more interested in transitioning rather than resisting, perhaps these things could have been accomplished. Things take longer when the President has to fight the RATS, the media AND the GOP!
The one thing I’m most happy about however, is the return of the two party system. TRUMP....v....Government.
That is nonsense.
Time to deal with the problem.
I wish all of you would stop this crap.
Greenfield should know better. This was a guy who was fired because he went OUTSIDE THE CHAIN OF COMMAND, something Kelly will slap down quick, fast and in a hurry. This has been the biggest criticism of the Trump WH, that there is no control
Meanwhile, McMaster has quietly destroyed ISIS without the loss of more than 10 Americans throughout the Middle East.
The guy is a genius, and people who bash him here have absolutely no clue what they are talking about.
Follow the chain of command and you won’t have a problem.
The purges are headed in the WRONG direction!
Arrest them for spelling and grammatical mistakes too! : )
So, all of the Trump-connected people that have been fired went outside the chain of command like Derek Harvey supposedly did? Sorry, not buying it. Trump needs to start looking up some of the people that stepped away or were forced out from the military during the Obama years, and maybe even people from the Reagan years if any of them still have their wits about them. The Obama-ites, including McMaster, need to be purged from the WH - they cannot be trusted.
Tillerson is a continuation of John Kerry and Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3574298/posts
Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick wrote Wednesday evening that National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster is purging pro-Israel staff from the National Security Council (NSC), turning the administration against President Donald Trump’s policies.
In a Facebook post, Glick noted that “all of these people” whom McMaster has fired this week — Rich Higgins, Derek Harvey, and Ezra Cohen-Watnick — “are pro-Israel and oppose the Iran nuclear deal, positions that Trump holds.”
She noted that the firings were the latest evidence that NSA McMaster is “deeply hostile to Israel and to Trump”:
According to senior officials aware of his behavior, he constantly refers to Israel as the occupying power and insists falsely and constantly that a country named Palestine existed where Israel is located until 1948 when it was destroyed by the Jews.
Many of you will remember that a few days before Trump’s visit to Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – and his advisers were blindsided when the Americans suddenly told them that no Israeli official was allowed to accompany Trump to the Western Wall.
What hasn’t been reported: it was McMaster who pressured Trump to agree not to let Netanyahu accompany him to the Western Wall. At the time, I and other reporters were led to believe that this was the decision of rogue anti-Israel officers at the US consulate in Jerusalem. But it wasn’t. It was McMaster.
And even that, it works out wasn’t sufficient for McMaster. He pressured Trump to cancel his visit to the Wall and only visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial — ala the Islamists who insist that the only reason Israel exists is European guilt over the Holocaust.
Glick noted that the three latest firings were not McMaster’s first attack on pro-Israel officials, or those critical of radical Islam.
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You of all people should know better. McMaster is sooooo not an “Obama-ite.”
He was denied his 4th star cuz he rocked Obama’s boat.
McCain, the Obamacare enabler.. wow, no wonder. I guess you don’t earn stars by military service. Makes sense because you don’t earn stripes that way either, anymore. Our military has been socialized and politicized.
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