Posted on 03/23/2018 4:32:14 AM PDT by a little elbow grease
• Outgoing National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster worked for a foreign-based think tank for 11 years before assuming his post
• The think tank has ties to Russia, China, the Uranium One deal and Bahrain
• Career armed forces officers spoke out against the arrangement
Outgoing National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster served for more than a decade as a consultant to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, a foreign-based think-tank that has received funding from hostile foreign governments to include Russia and China, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation.
The career soldier ended his employment at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in February 2017 after President Donald Trump tapped him to serve as his national security adviser following the resignation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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I’m wondering if McMaster was the leak on the Putin call. The talking points memo may have been a plant to ferret out traitors.
Great picture.
LOL .......... nice crowd!
I am so happy the globalist McMaster is being “retired” from the Army rather than being given yet another undeserved star.
A B-oom?!?!
Now why would a pacifist organization push for the Iran nuclear deal? Founded & run by Sumting Wong?
Funny how they fail to mention this 60 year old institution is receiving funds from an array of sources - idiot-bait headline make sit look like it’s a joint China/Russia deal.
these should have raised red flags:
IISS praised McMaster when he joined the Trump White House. Jonathan Stevenson, an Obama NSC official who also is a senior fellow at IISS, wrote a fawning opinion piece about McMaster in The New York Times. He called him a “compelling choice: a scholar-warrior” and “both a proven cavalry officer and a formidable defense intellectual.” Stevenson wrote McMaster could save Trump, and the general’s appointment, “should augur at least a fleeting period of stability at the dysfunctional National Security Council.”...
IISS also entered domestic American politics by defending the Democratic Party during the 2016 presidential campaign. It flatly stated following the release of emails from the Democratic National Committee it “revealed no evidence of significant wrongdoing within the Democratic Party.”...
I'm sorry - did that come across as overly cynical?
As an active duty general officer how could McMaster work as a consultant? Is that allowed?
I'm sorry - did that come across as overly cynical?
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Trump knew this when he hired him.
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I hear you. That's why I posted this. Because I'm basically clueless on this subject and McMasters I wanted to see what all the "geniuses" here at FR thought.
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Makes me wonder. How long did the Daily Caller have this information? Why put it out now, when McMaster is on his way out? If they had this information before he was installed in his position, why didn’t they put it out then?
Apparently part of the leaked message was that McMaster recommended against congratulating Putin, so yeah, he prob was the leaker.
Army regulations do NOT permit active duty officers to work and be paid for it for other organizations. However, senior officers are assigned by the Department of Defense to major “think tanks” as part of their continuing education and learning. Thus the DoD decided to assign LTG McMaster, when he was a full colonel he was assigned to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, as a Senior Research Associate with a mandate described as “conduct[ing] research to identify opportunities for improved multi-national cooperation and political-military integration in the areas of counterinsurgency, counter-terrorism, and state building”, and to devise “better tactics to battle terrorism.”
He was also he was a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution (a conservative organization) and was a national security affairs fellow from 2002 to 2003. These are honorary position and as a serving officer he would NOT have been paid.
Thus blame the DoD for assigning him to the International Institute for Strategic Studies during George W. Bush’s presidency.
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