Posted on 03/23/2018 4:32:14 AM PDT by a little elbow grease
Yes but why was he kept on there for so many years? That is the truly troubling aspect here.
Why kept on the fellow list? Think of it as ‘once a fellow always a fellow.’ At my college anyone who donated $5,000 to it over a 5 year period was named a “Fellow of” the college and was permanently on the list, even if they never donated any more money. Think of it as the institution wanting to gain from the prestige it thinks it will get when a low level fellow today, become a high level person in the future.
I’ll have to read it again, but I got the impression he actually participated, not just a fellow on the list.
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.
Yes, it does give that impression. So are you sure he was just a "fellow on the list", or guessing?
He was assigned there by the DoD in the summer of 2006 through the summer of 2007 to do research in counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism. thus he was there as a student and researcher and NOT as an instructor. As best I can tell, he was awarded the fellowship after completing his year of research, sort of like I was awarded my MA in history after completing the 2 year program.
From his biography:
McMaster passed command of the 3rd ACR on June 29, 2006, and joined 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.”[22]
From August 2007 to August 2008, McMaster was part of an “elite team of officers advising U.S. commander” General David Petraeus.
His time as a research fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2003 was part of his Army War College assignment — “In 2003 McMaster completed an Army War College research fellowship at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.”
Because Army regulations forbid him being employed by the IISS and receiving pay from it, while being an actively serving officer, I’m making what one might call ‘an educated guess’. If he had been paid, then there would have been a scandal about that blatant violation of regulations long before now.
Many years ago, while an active duty officer, I went back to the university I received my MA in History from to participate in a week long program to discuss the uses of a history degree and history in general and the military. Although I had received an invitation, I had to go to the JAG officer for its review and they said that I could attend it provided I used my annual leave and did NOT ACCEPT ANY REMUNERATION in cash or kind (i.e. meals) from the university. Fortunately the university was near my home town, thus I took my family back and stayed with my parents.
I’m continually amazed. Why is it so hard to find trustworthy people in the upper echelons of government?
While McMaster worked for that think tank one of it’s main priorities when Obama was making the deal with the Mullahs of Tehran was BACKING AND PROMOTING the deal with the Mullahs of Tehran. I have repeated this many times since McMaster was first appointed to the Trump NSC team. I suspect the recommendation for McMaster came through Trump’s daughter and son-in-law mouthing what their Lib NY “friends” told them.
This seems to be about the McCabe firing, however, my question was with regard to McMasters remaining in this foreign think tank for so many years.
McMasters was a choosen SES.
Does this video even address McMasters at all?
Trump fire him but no from SES. He still gets paid from that pool of money. HcMasters is in their other videos. They have more than one on the subject.
It is a growing amount of information on SES.
DoD assigned him to it - post 20 has decent explanation...
The Senior Executive Service consists of federal employees who report directly to Presidential appointees. These leaders are the link between the politics and administration of the US federal government.
Yeah and I was included in that, but it still does not answer the question of why he was in that think tank for over a decade. Those stints with think tanks are usually with think tanks in the U.S. and never go beyond a 1 year time frame.
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