The White House National Security Council is sharply downsizing 'in a bid to improve efficiency' by consolidating positions and cutting staff, according to the Washington Times - which adds that a secondary, unspoken objective for the cuts is to address nonstop leaks that have plagued the Trump administration for nearly three years.
Leaks of President Trump's conversations with foreign leaders and other damaging disclosures likely originated with anti-Trump officials in the White House who stayed over from the Obama administration, according to several current and former White House officials.
The so-called second-hand 'whistleblower' at the heart of President Trump's impeachment was widely reported to be a NSC staffer on detail from the CIA, Eric Ciaramella, who took umbrage with Trump asking Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky to investigate former VP Joe Biden - who Ciaramella worked with.
Mr. O'Brien noted that the NSC had a policymaking staff of 12 in 1962 when President Kennedy faced down the Soviet Union during the Cuban missile crisis.
Obama-era NSC officials are suspected of leaking classified details of President Trump's phone conversations with foreign counterparts.
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon said efforts to weed out the Obama holdovers was a priority early in the administration.
"The NSC had gotten so big there were over 450 billets," said Mr. Bannon, adding that he and others tried to remove the Obama detailees from the White House.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nsc-obama-holdovers-finally-booted-after-three-years-non-stop-leaks
Leaks of President Trump's conversations with foreign leaders and other damaging disclosures likely originated with anti-Trump officials in the White House who stayed over from the Obama administration, according to several current and former White House officials.
The so-called second-hand 'whistleblower' at the heart of President Trump's impeachment was widely reported to be a NSC staffer on detail from the CIA, Eric Ciaramella, who took umbrage with Trump asking Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky to investigate former VP Joe Biden - who Ciaramella worked with.
Mr. O'Brien noted that the NSC had a policymaking staff of 12 in 1962 when President Kennedy faced down the Soviet Union during the Cuban missile crisis.
Obama-era NSC officials are suspected of leaking classified details of President Trump's phone conversations with foreign counterparts.
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon said efforts to weed out the Obama holdovers was a priority early in the administration.
"The NSC had gotten so big there were over 450 billets," said Mr. Bannon, adding that he and others tried to remove the Obama detailees from the White House.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nsc-obama-holdovers-finally-booted-after-three-years-non-stop-leaks
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