People have asked why we focus so much sunlight and attention toward the network silos that operate the Intelligence Community (IC) and as an outcome the national security focus of government. The answer is simple, as Mary McCord herself admitted publicly, the IC are the background approver for every weaponized approach of government, including the DOJ.
With that in mind, CTH has painstakingly made the case –with details and receipts– for a process of removing the IC silos from influence over the Office of The President. The Chief Executive must control all elements of national security policy and implementation.
Thankfully, the Supreme Court recently affirmed the plenary power of the executive branch, and the unitary power of the President in controlling every system within that branch of government.
That ruling (presidential immunity) further bolstered the solution we have continuously proposed. The IC silos must be decoupled from the Executive office definitions of national security, until such a time as the IC institutions can be bought to heel.
The most effective way to confront a rogue, hostile and corrupt IC apparatus is to take away their power. The best way to remove their power is to use their primary weapon, their silo structure, against them.
Turn each silo into an irrelevant echo-chamber by using the White House National Security Council as their replacement. Regardless of what triggers the various IC silo embeds try to pull (CIA, NSA, FBI, DIA, etc.) let them shoot blanks by removing their power over policy and process.
If the IC is isolated from influence, eventually the Legislative Branch, specifically the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, will realize the ‘Seven Ways from Sunday’ group no longer hold power. The IC becomes a crew stomping their feet while no one pays attention.
This approach would be affected by restructuring the President’s National Security Council (NSC), the National Security Advisor (NSA Mike Waltz) and working with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI Tulsi Gabbard), in a synergistic process. The IC become simply information functionaries. The Nat Sec Council then validates and defines the information, creates the definitions of national security interest, and initiates the guidance to President Trump, who ultimately triggers any action.
Until yesterday there were only a few subtle signs that this ‘silo isolation’ approach was being accepted as the most effective optimal solution to the problem within the intelligence apparatus. However, yesterday President Trump signed an Executive Order [SEE HERE] doing exactly the type of restructuring that is needed.
The XO is technical and deep in the weeds, but this is the process that has the greatest likelihood of success.
SUBJECT: Organization of the National Security Council and Subcommittees
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct the following:
As President, my highest priority and responsibility is to ensure the safety and security of the United States and its people. The national and homeland security threats facing the United States are complex and rapidly evolving. These issues often do not fit neatly into the categories that single departments and agencies are designed to optimally address, a fact recognized and exploited by our strategic competitors and adversaries in their adoption of whole-of-government and even whole-of-society approaches.
The United States Government’s decision-making structures and processes to address national security challenges must therefore be equally adaptive and comprehensive. They must be able to competently design and execute cooperative and integrated interagency solutions to address these problems, and protect and advance the national interests of the United States. Therefore, to advise and assist me in this endeavor, I hereby direct that my system for national security policy development, decision-making, implementation, and monitoring shall be organized as set forth in this Memorandum. This Memorandum prevails over any prior orders, directives, memoranda, or other Presidential guidance related to the organization of the National Security Council (NSC or Council).
A. The National Security Council and Supporting Staff
1. Functions, Responsibilities, and Chairs.
(a) Functions and Responsibilities. The National Security Act of 1947, as amended (the Act), established the NSC to advise the President with respect to the integration of domestic, foreign, and military policies relating to national security. The Homeland Security Council (HSC) has the distinct purpose of advising the President on matters pertaining to homeland security. The NSC shall convene as the HSC on topic areas agreed to in advance by the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) and the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security (Homeland Security Advisor). Along with its subordinate committees and staff, the NSC shall be the President’s principal means for coordinating Executive departments and agencies in the development and implementation of national and homeland security policies, strategies, activities, and functions, their integration across departments and agencies within their purview, and for long-term strategic planning.
(b) Chairs. The President will chair the NSC. When the President is absent from a meeting of the Council, he may appoint a Cabinet-level official to chair.
2. NSC Staffing Responsibilities of the National Security Advisor.
(a) Role of the National Security Advisor. The National Security Advisor shall be responsible, as appropriate and at the President’s direction, for determining the agenda for the NSC, ensuring that the necessary papers are prepared, and recording and communicating Council actions and Presidential decisions in a timely manner.
(b) Role of the Homeland Security Advisor. When convened as the HSC, the duties referenced in subsection (2)(a) shall be the responsibility of the Homeland Security Advisor.
3. Designating NSC Members, Attendees, and Invitees.
(a) Membership. The NSC membership consists of the statutory members set forth in section 101(c)(1) of the Act (50 U.S.C. 3021(c)(1)):
The President;
The Vice President;
The Secretary of State;
The Secretary of the Treasury;
The Secretary of Defense;
The Secretary of Energy;
The Director of the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy;
and additional members hereby designated by the President pursuant to section 101(c)(1) of the Act:
The Attorney General;
The Secretary of the Interior;
Chief of Staff to the President (White House Chief of Staff); and
The National Security Advisor.
When the NSC convenes as the HSC, members shall also include:
The Secretary of Homeland Security; and
13) The Homeland Security Advisor.
(b) NSC Meeting Attendees. The National Security Advisor retains the discretion to determine the attendee list for all meetings of the NSC, including by requesting the attendance of any senior official of the Executive Branch. The Homeland Security Advisor retains this same discretion when the NSC convenes as the HSC. This discretion shall be exercised based on the policy relevance of attendees to the issues being considered, the need for secrecy on sensitive matters, staffing requirements, and other considerations.
As regular practice, the National Security Advisor and Homeland Security Advisor shall include as additional non-voting attendees:
The Director of National Intelligence (non-voting advisor);
The Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor (non-voting advisor and principal notetaker) or, when convening as the HSC, the Deputy Homeland Security Advisor (non-voting advisor and principal notetaker);
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (non-voting advisor); and
The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (non-voting advisor).
(c) NSC Regular Invitees. Unless specifically restricted, these officials are invited to attend any NSC and HSC meeting as non-voting advisors:
The Assistant to the President and Counsel to the President;
The Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy;
The Assistant to the President for Policy; and
The Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs and Legal Counsel to the National Security Advisor.
4. Right to Propose Agenda Items.
Any NSC member attending a meeting in a voting capacity may propose, in advance and in accordance with a timeline set by the National Security Advisor or his designee, agenda items for their consideration.[1] The National Security Advisor will determine whether to include these items on the agenda. The Homeland Security Advisor shall have this same discretion when the Council is convened as the HSC.
5. The National Security Council Staff.
(a) Staff Fusion. There is a single NSC staff within the Executive Office of the President (EOP) that serves both the NSC on national security matters and the HSC when the Council is considering homeland security matters. The staff is headed by a single Executive Secretary, in accordance with section 101(e)(1) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3021(e)(1)) and section 905 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 495).
(b) Purpose. The purposes of the National Security Advisor and subordinate staff are to
(i) advise and assist the President in the course of conducting activities that relate to or affect the carrying out of the President’s constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties pertaining to national or homeland security, pursuant to the Presidential Records Act of 1978, as amended;[2]
(ii) advise and assist the other members of the NSC (and the NSC when convening as the HSC), and others in the White House;
(iii) help the President plan and set priorities, in accordance with section II of the Message of the President in the Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1977;
(iv) advise and make recommendations to the President with respect to, and establish, integrated domestic, foreign, and military policies and procedures for the departments, agencies, and functions of the Government relating to national and homeland security, pursuant to sections 2 and 101(b)(1) of the Act (50 U.S.C. 3002, 3021(b)(1));
(v) coordinate, facilitate, monitor, oversee, and review Administration policies and their implementation with respect to national security, and make resulting recommendations to the President;
(vi) help the President resolve major conflicts among departments and agencies with regard to national security, in accordance with section II of the Message of the President in the Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1977.
(c) Fair, Balanced, and Thorough Processes. In accordance with sections I and II of the Message of the President in the Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1977, the NSC staff shall ensure that the processes it organizes, coordinates, and manages fairly and thoroughly gather the facts, intelligence, and other relevant information necessary to NSC decisions; fully analyze the issues; consider a full range of views and options; assess the prospects, risks, costs, and implications of each option; and distill these options for the President, other NSC principals, and senior officials participating in the subsidiary committees of the NSC or HSC, in a fair, balanced, and organized way. The National Security Advisor and subordinate NSC staff shall represent the views and differences of NSC principals and other senior officials to the President with accuracy and fidelity.
(d) Policy Development. In accordance with sections I and II of the Message of the President in the Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1977,[8] the NSC staff shall facilitate the development and refinement of interagency policy options, and develop additional options besides those proposed by departments and agencies as necessary, both to complement, supplement, and enhance their work, and to offer the President and other NSC principals and other senior officials a sufficiently broad menu of operationally feasible options for consideration, deliberation, and decision.
B. The Principals Committee
1. Principals Committee Establishment.
(a) (i) Functions and Responsibilities. The Principals Committee (PC) shall continue to serve as the Cabinet-level senior interagency forum for considering policy issues that affect the national security interests of the United States. The PC shall develop options and recommendations for the President on national security and homeland security matters requiring the President’s attention, and with the Committee’s full consensus shall set priorities, issue policy guidance, and facilitate coordination and integration on national security policy and implementation issues as appropriate that do not require Presidential attention.[9] Issues involving matters that are statutorily authorized for decision by a principal, or delegated to a principal by the President, can be coordinated and decided by the principals without requiring Presidential attention.
(ii) Voting and NSC Referral. Consensus is reached when all voting (i.e., non-advisory) attendees present either vote affirmatively for the same decisional option or formally abstain, and all such votes shall be recorded and minuted. Issues for which the Committee fails to reach consensus shall be referred to the NSC for decision, with a formal nonconcurrence required by at least one non-advisory attendee present for such a referral. Whether an issue requires Presidential attention, and the Committee attendees’ positions on the issue itself, shall be separately polled. If a voting attendee does not concur with the determination that Presidential consideration is not required, the issue shall be referred, along with the results of the PC’s deliberation on the issue itself and its recommendations, to deliberation by the NSC.
(b) Role of the National Security Advisor. The PC shall be convened and chaired by the National Security Advisor. The Chair shall determine the agenda, location, and meeting materials, in consultation with the appropriate attendees.
(c) Substitute Chairs. At his sole discretion, the National Security Advisor may delegate authority to convene and chair or co-chair the PC to an appropriate attendee of the NSC or EOP policy council senior official. The Homeland Security Advisor, who is Chair when the PC considers matters that would be raised to the NSC convening as the HSC, may similarly delegate such duties.
(d) Right to Propose Agenda Items. Any PC member attending in a voting capacity may propose, in advance and in accordance with a timeline set by the Chair, agenda items for consideration by the PC. The Chair will determine which, if any, shall be included.
2. Executive Secretary Responsibilities and Process.
(a) Responsibilities. The Executive Secretary shall ensure that the necessary papers are prepared, serve as executive secretary of the PC, and shall record and communicate accurately, and in a timely manner, the Committee’s conclusions and decisions, what was not decided, and any responsibilities for implementation by departments and agencies or taskings to the Deputies Committee or subsidiary policy coordination committees that have been agreed or assigned, if appropriate.[10] The Executive Secretary shall generally be assisted in these tasks by the senior directors and other NSC staff by the senior directors and other NSC staff.
(b) Dispute Resolution Process. If a PC voting attendee disputes that the conclusions or decisions of the PC were correctly minuted, this must be communicated in writing to the Executive Secretary and the National Security Advisor (and any substitute Chair if appropriate) within three business days, although those officials may allow additional time if exigent or extenuating circumstances require it. If resolution of the dispute cannot be achieved, and any necessary amended report of the PC proceedings was issued within a week of the dispute being communicated, the disputing attendee may appeal the matter to the White House Chief of Staff or, should that official so designate, to the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, whose decision shall be final.
3. Principals Committee Attendees and Invitees.
(a) Principals Committee Attendees.
(i) The National Security Advisor retains the discretion to determine the attendee list for all PC meetings on national security. The Homeland Security Advisor retains this same discretion when chairing the PC. This discretion shall be exercised based on the policy relevance of attendees to the issues being considered, the need for secrecy on sensitive matters, staffing needs, and other considerations. As regular practice, the National Security Advisor and Homeland Security Advisor shall include as additional non-voting attendees:
1) The Director of National Intelligence;
2) The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff;
3) The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency;
4) The Principal Deputy National Security Advisor;
5) the National Security Advisor to the Vice President; and
6) The Executive Secretary (principal notetaker).
(ii) PC Regular Invitees. Unless specifically restricted, these officials are invited to attend any PC meeting as non-voting advisors:
The Assistant to the President and Counselor to the President;
The Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy;
The Assistant to the President for Policy; and
The Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs and Legal Counsel to the National Security Advisor.
(iii) Staffing Invitees. At the discretion of the Chair, staff members of the NSC or other appropriate EOP policy councils may be invited to attend specific PC meetings to assist the Executive Secretary in the performance of their executive secretary duties.
C. The Deputies Committee
1. Deputies Committee Establishment.
(a) Functions and Responsibilities. The Deputies Committee (DC) shall continue to serve as the senior sub-Cabinet interagency forum for consideration of and, where appropriate, decision making on, policy issues that affect the national security interests of the United States. The DC shall review and monitor the work of the interagency national security process, including the interagency groups established pursuant to section D below. The DC shall work to ensure that issues brought before the NSC, the NSC when convening as the HSC, and the PC have been properly analyzed and prepared for decision. The DC shall also focus significant attention on monitoring the implementation of these policies and decisions and shall conduct periodic reviews of the Administration’s major national security and foreign policy initiatives.
(b) Role of the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor. The DC shall be convened and chaired by the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor. The Chair shall determine the location, agenda, and meeting materials in consultation with the DC attendees.
(c) Substitute Chairs. At his sole discretion, the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor may delegate authority to convene and chair or co-chair the DC to an appropriate regular attendee of the DC or other appropriate EOP official. The Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security (Deputy Homeland Security Advisor) shall chair meetings when considering issues that would be raised when the NSC is convened as the HSC. The Deputy Homeland Security Advisor has similar delegatory authority.
(d) Right to Propose Agenda Items. Any DC member attending in a voting capacity may propose, in advance and in accordance with a timeline set by the Chair, agenda items for consideration by the DC. The Chair will determine which, if any, shall be included.
2. Executive Secretary Responsibilities and Process.
(a) General. The Executive Secretary shall ensure that the necessary papers are prepared, and shall record and communicate accurately, and in a timely manner, the Committee’s conclusions and decisions, what was not decided, and any responsibilities for implementation by departments and agencies or taskings to subsidiary policy coordination committees that have been agreed or assigned, if appropriate. The Executive Secretary shall generally be assisted in this task by the senior directors and other NSC staff.
(b) Dispute Resolution Process. If a DC voting attendee disputes that the conclusions or decisions of the DC were correctly minuted, this must be communicated in writing to the Executive Secretary and the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor or the Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, as relevant, within three business days, although those officials may allow additional time if exigent or extenuating circumstances require it. If resolution of the dispute cannot be achieved, and any necessary amended report of the PC proceedings issued within a week of the dispute being communicated, the disputing attendee may appeal the matter to the White House Chief of Staff, or should that official so designate, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, whose decision shall be final.
3. Designating Deputies Committee Regular Attendees and Invitees.
(a) Deputies Committee Attendees. The Principal Deputy National Security Advisor retains the discretion to determine the attendee list for all DC meetings.
The Deputy Homeland Security Advisor retains this same discretion when chairing DC meetings. This discretion shall be exercised based on the policy relevance of attendees to the issues being considered, the need for secrecy on sensitive matters, staffing needs, and other considerations.
As regular practice, the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor shall include as DC attendees:
The Deputy Secretary of State;
The Deputy Secretary of the Treasury;
The Deputy Secretary of Defense;
The Deputy Attorney General;
The Deputy Secretary of Energy;
The Deputy Director of National Intelligence (non-voting advisor);
The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (non-voting advisor);
The Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (non-voting advisor);
The Executive Secretary of the NSC (non-voting advisor and principal notetaker); and
The National Security Advisor to the Vice President.
When homeland security issues are on the DC agenda, the DC’s regular attendees will also include:
11) The Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security; and
12) The Deputy Homeland Security Advisor (chair).
(b) DC Regular Invitees. These officials are invited to attend any DC meeting:
The Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget; and
The Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Policy Strategist.
D. Policy Coordination Committees
Management of the development and implementation of national security policies by multiple Executive departments and agencies typically shall be accomplished by Policy Coordination Committees (PCCs), with participation primarily occurring at the Assistant Secretary level. As the main day-to-day fora for interagency coordination and integration of national security policies, PCCs shall develop and provide policy options and analyses for consideration by higher echelon committees of the national security system. PCCs shall ensure timely responses to, and implementation and monitoring of, decisions, directives, objectives, instructions, inquiries, tasking, and policy guidance of and by the President, National Security Advisor, and the higher-echelon committees of the national security system.
PCCs shall be established at the direction of the National Security Advisor or Homeland Security Advisor, in consultation with the White House Chief of Staff or her designee. Members of the NSC staff will chair the PCCs.
PCCs shall review, coordinate, integrate, and monitor the implementation of Presidential decisions in their respective national security and homeland security policy areas. The Chair of each PCC, in consultation with the Executive Secretary, shall invite representatives of departments and agencies to attend meetings of the PCC where appropriate. The Chair of each PCC, with the agreement of the Executive Secretary, may establish subordinate working groups to assist that PCC in the performance of its duties.
Interagency Policy Committees (IPCs) chartered under the aegis of the process established by National Security Memorandum-2 (NSM–2) may continue to be operated as PCCs by the NSC staff until renewed or discontinued by the National Security Advisor.
E. General
(a) The President and the Vice President may attend any meeting of any entity established by or under this directive.
(b) This document is part of a series of National Security Policy Memoranda, which have replaced both National Security Memoranda and National Security Study Memoranda as the instrument for communicating relevant Presidential decisions. This directive shall supersede all other existing Presidential directives and guidance on the organization or support of the NSC and the HSC where they conflict, including National Security Memorandum–2 of February 4, 2021 (Memorandum on Renewing the National Security Council System), which is hereby revoked. This document shall be interpreted in concert with any Presidential directives governing other policy councils and offices in the EOP mentioned herein, and with any Presidential directives signed hereafter that implement this document or those Presidential directives.
[SOURCE]
This process hinges upon the execution of National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
We will watch closely.
Either President Trump or someone very close in his orbit is apparently listening to you, Sundance.
His people have been reading here since 2015.
Recall when SD urged the postcard campaign back in 2015? That we send in postcards depicting towns and places from all around the county, in support of the 2016 campaign?
Hahaha! Mine was from Redlands, Calif, specifically with the message the campaign familiarize itself with this website, noting the website address.
So who knows??? If it reached the ‘right’ person who followed up here, I’m happy to have made my contribution to MAGA.
During President Trump’s first term I used to email him all the time, knowing that it probably wouldn’t actually be him who was reading the emails but I told him about the Treehouse and gave contact info several times hoping his staff would tell him about it.
Well….6-8 months ago, I emailed 47, then 45… about specifically “auditing” the Panama Canal Treaty compliance.
I sent two emails. Other than ranting here, that is all I have ever said re said issue.
And now? Is it because someone listened or just a natural progression of global politics? Who knows? Certainly not me.
The other side reads here too, fyi, though hard to infer to what extent
They read here but are too arrogant to understand that we have a crowd sourced wisdom that they can’t compete with. I’m seeing several things in the EOs that have been mentioned here by Treepers.
At best, they read here as a way of determining how to try and stop Sundance and eliminate the comments section.
Crowdsourcing doesn’t work for the Left because they are all about Groupthink. Their whole crowd will all echo the exact same response, once somebody tells them what their approved response is supposed to be.
Bingo. That and their laziness are MASSIVE advantages to us.
I pointed that out to my buddy. I said thanks to their laziness and lack of merit for anything these people do in life, we have a massive advantage. Just look at crooks, or whoever actually took the shot at PDJT. They sent a woke douchbag. Worked out to our advantage, and ultimately, their demise.
You MUST take advantages of your enemies weaknesses. But it’s a double whammy for them. If they let their base become educated they will red pill them. They can only relay mostly on lazy meritless morons.
Trust God
Fear Not
Lazy? Maybe. Stupid? Definitely. Still, 1/4 of an inch in Butler is TOO DAMNED CLOSE.
I really can’t say I understand all the implications of this executive order.
However, as has been mentioned at CTH repeatedly,
Something has to change.
This may be it.
If the IC can be kept from independent action, and MUST submit documentation/paperwork for whatever conclusions/actions/intelligence they offer,
And MUST have approval of the President or those authorized by him,
Then this administration will be able to start that much-needed reform.
I’ll be interested in reading how this works out.
Personnel is policy – if DJT gets the people he wants in place, real progress can be made.
I am thinking that the weeds of assassinations and revealing info, of long ago might have something to do with this?
Please understand that it is quite the tangled web to unweave.
Just gotta say it…
I am impressed with Marco Rubio again.
Well done.
Trust God.
Fear not.
Rubio is a barely mediocre man with a mouth. That’s all.
The fact that the president or vice president or their designees can attend any of the meetings at any time is crucial.
Also that the president is chair of all committees.
Personell is policy, and policy is not just for “policy wonks” its IMPORTANT, as we are all the rscipients of policy.
This is a good first step, he can’t really closs the FBI, CIA, etx
c. but he CAN make thsm irrelevant.
Do you mean politically he cannot close the FBI etc or technically Dutchman?
If politically, then I’d agree but if technically, SD references his plenary (absolute) power, ie ability over the executive branch which I believed these agencies fall under?
Am I wrong?
“I really can’t say I understand all the implications of this executive order”
The implication as I see it, in street lingo is: He Chopped Their Legs Right Out From Underneath ‘Em
As long as Waltz follows through on his promise to fire or chase-out all the holdovers from Biden’s term on the NSC.
Shuffling the structure might be one way to make sure that happens.
Agree!
And thank God for that!!
Congrats, Sundance.
You are getting through to the right people!
I’m surprised Sundance wasn’t invited to the Inauguration???
How do we know he wasn’t? Hmmm… 🙂
Well we don’t! But the sheer volume of his postings and his responses to everything that was going on during Inauguration Day lead me to believe he was tied to his computer knocking them out! JMO. I think he should have been if he wasn’t!
Does Sundance work alone? My guess is that he has a team of researchers.
For all we know, he might have been sitting next to Gov. DeSantis!
IMHO, the inauguration would be the wrong place for Sundance in his (along with his team) capacity as Intelligence for the Republic of this United States of America. His work, along with that of we investigative Wolverines, can now begin in earnest. Helping President Trump Restructure the Republic in all its Freedoms and Exceptionalism — with the special view from the outside..
Gen Flynn and Erik Prince spoke about these changes for the past couple years when referencing PDB and other Presidential read ins when discussing how President Trump was not fully informed or accurately informed. The most important point of these changes is the impact to NSC traitors falsely testifying at PDJT I and II Impeachment hearings like: Lt Col Alexander Vindeman (the tool wearing his uniform to every NSC meeting in spite of separating from mil several years prior), Kurt Volker special enjoy Ukraine (set up call with Zelensky), Marie Yovanovitch Amb to Ukraine, Bill Taylor #1 Ukraine diplomat, Fiona Hill Russian expert and then there’s the State Dept George Kent Asst Dep DOS, Michael McKinley Advisor DOS (think Mike Pompeo on these two traitors) – NONE OF THESE TRAITORS RECEIVED PARDONS…
I posted elsewhere here when I read it (cant remember which thread ) but VINDMAN was NOT preemptively PARDONED by Sh1t For Brains 46.🤣🥳🍿🍿.
Yeah his wife was ranting about it today, Lawyer up shithead.
Thank you Father God for bringing this wisdom and understanding onto the Table and its acceptance as the proper course of action to restore this nation.
Amen.
maybe there will be a stoppage of arresting Grandmas!
Make those grandmas Deputy Sheriffs, to arrest any federal intruder into their territory, with authority to run them out of the county.
Train them in firearm use & safety and the law, and let them go to such abortion clinics, and arrest the interlopers.
Protect the righteous. It’s OUR COUNTRY.
Thank you for the update, Sundance. People like me depend on you to untie the knot of legal mumbo jumbo into something that actually makes sense.
This. And … there are far more of us than people like him:) I actually think SD is in a club (class) all his own!
Thank our Almighty God we have Sundance. It’s way over my head to get in the weeds,but I get the big picture. He deserves 👏 all the gratitude and 🙏 prayers this humble Treeper and Old Wolverine can give..
That! is ‘no contest’.
Having read a number of the EO’s issued yesterday — and using this specific one as an example — it is very clear that Trump and his advisors have been thinking and working on this stuff for a long time.
They were ready to go by Election Day. Once elected, they had to figure out who to put where. For the most part, I think the individuals selected are exactly who needed to be picked.
Contrast this with how it worked in 2017 when he had to rely on the GOP Establishment for advice 🙂
I am very encouraged that this time around serious and real reform is going to take place. I hop my optimism is rewarded.
Thank the Lord that Trump got re-elected.
Thank the Lord for the miracle at Butler, PA.
I certainly didn’t “know” anything. However, I FELT, after I saw how narrowly President Trump had escaped death, and how incredibly compelling his “FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT” rhetoric was as he was refusing to be pulled off the platform, that he was destined to win and be President again. I couldn’t believe that G-d would have so miraculously spared his life in order to let him lose.
Military operation.
Patriots in control.
American people awake = game over.
So patriots allowed millions to die the last 4 years?
So God allows millions to die in the last xx thousands of years?
Such a stupid question.
“Allowed”
So it is not the fault of the individuals actually conducting the crimes.
Got it.
the individuals are stupid, so it is not their fault is
the excuse used for years
War is never without casualties.
It would have, could have, been billions not millions.
We are across the cliffs of Normandy, but a long ways from Berlin.
The Battle of the Bulge is in front of us, not behind, most likely.
Nice. But the work isn’t over. The left will continue to represent themselves, while the right does the hard work for the people. This time, howeveer, once the illegals are gone, the game will begin. Then after we cleaned the field, the game will be game over.
The game has just begun, and the team Captain has started well.
I was struck late afternoon in the Oval Office, behind the desk signing Orders and answering dozens of Press questions, how natural it seemed for him to be there again. It was as though it is where he belonged all the while, and we as concerned citizens had to feel both comfortable and comforted to see him there.
Totally agree!
And the contrast in cognitive ability between Trump and the former White House Vegetable was so stark!
All future Presidents will now be judged by comparison to 47 and everything he/she will do from the moment they win their future election until the last day of their term(s) in office.
Seeing him back in the Oval Office made me feel like I had had a building lifted off my shoulders and that I could actually BREATHE again! These last four years have been very trying, and my anger at the Biden regime combined with my fears for our country have probably cost me time off my life. I am more grateful to G-d than I have words to express for the fact that we have been given another chance to get it right in America. May we be wise and determined enough to use that chance to right the ship.
We had better use this one well. There is no guarantee we will get another chance if we fail to use this one properly.
President Trump wasn’t idle for four years.
Ready to strike immediately after he finished his oath with palpable feeling, “So help me God.” 🙏🏻
It is said that experience is the best teacher, if it doesn’t kill you.
The 2020 steal, then the 2024 presidential election is like a re-birth or a do-over in that it allowed for the clarity that only hindsight can bring. Not only for the President, but for the citizens of our Republic.
By updating the 1947 National Security Act on day 1, it seems that the President & Team47 did indeed use the interim term wisely.
I see a bright future ahead.
It is the best, Bigdog 👍🏻
Once again…
Life gives you the test first and the lesson after.
Not many get a chance for those do overs. He fought for his and will now apply those lessons and experience like a Grand Master, keeping his own counsel until the time is right.
Ace on Ace of Spades said it today better than I ever could.
“Second term Trump is the Trump we all wanted but didn’t get due to constant gaslighting and crisis-making by government bureaucrats. First term Trump had a loud bark and a gentle bite.
Second term Trump has a quieter bark and a savage bite.”
WOOF!!! 😎
And a 4 paws up to you- Be Best
I will certainly try, dear sir…bless you 💕
He’s picked up Teddy’s Big Stick.
how ironic.national security act of 19(47)
Now that directive from Sun Tzu should be read everyday by those in charge and followed.
Oh how I agree with that, Cjzack.
Spot on, Grasshopper!
Also the list of “Acting” people in place until confirmations was well thought out in advance and those people are likely just as aligned as the ones waiting on confirmation.
Perfect! There’s a whole lot of uppity eunuchs wondering how they went from thinking they had power to being another unemployed leftist. Property values in DC are going to crash with all the foreclosures and vacancies.
Really? Let me see if I can find my nanoviolin. I’m not sure where I left it…
“Brick by brick, my citizens”
Rome wasn’t built is a day, but President Trump is off to a fast start.
Awesome.
Yes, Rome wasn’t built in a day, but PTrump doesn’t have a mere hammer and chisel to take things down brick by brick.
He’s queuing up a few wrecking balls.
Thank You, I feel like I have been on a diet, suddenly feel a weight off me and a spring in my step.
https://gab.com/BrennaJayy
-Luigi Mangioni & darpa & penn university 🤔
❗️hey…, ever listen to this lady’s videos????
-VERY interesting
Last time, the IC fulfilled their legal requirement to “inform” the executive of certain things by informing a captive member of the executive, not Trump.
That chicanery has to be stopped. Trump will have to be ready to prune those who try it. And they will.
If I understand this read correctly – it will have the immediate effect of placing several of the silos out of the power loop, and will not have Congress as their back-up power access.
The ball’s now been pitched as a hanging curve, and Mike Waltz is at bat. Will he park in the bleachers? Or will it be a swing and a miss?
Thanks for the clarification on this. I was trying to make sense of this executive order. Great news!
I hope Sundance is right
As IC power wanes then expect their close relationships and collaboration between IC and Social Media, Associated Press, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other major and minor outlets around the globe to fall apart.
then add tons of extra security for trump……not only remove them but also investigate them for criminal violations of our laws…..fill up the empty (to be) DC jails with them…
Elated to see these evil manipulators get their comeuppance. Executive control and authority need to be asserted over these various leviathans so they are brought fully to heel. The Executive needs to have real intelligence that can be employed to protect us, not self serving crapola that weaponizes the administrative state against us.
As authority is asserted the disloyal will lash out seditiously, as they did in ’17. The rebuilt FBI will need to surveil, arrest, and
refer to DOJ for prosecution to follow.
Crush them.
This time they have a chance of getting caught out in the sunlight with their illegal activity. The people Trump has in his orbit should be watching their silos for those leaking to social media, then find out who they are and put them on a different career path. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Amen, NHBandit! One New Hampshireite to another.
This completely eliminates the Mark Warner types?
There are many bought and paid for Mark Warners to be excised from the intelligence collectors. May their removal be calculated and swift, and their “leaked info” receivers find other employment after spending quality time behind bars in out of the way jailcells, far from the power brokers that recruited/paid them. They can make new friends there.
and their “leaked info” receivers find other employment after spending quality time behind bars
That’s a key point IMO. The media people that report the leaked, classified material need to get busted.
DOJ busted James Wolfe when he leaked the FISA to Allie Watkins. I don’t recall them doing anything other than questioning Watkins.
But what about a free press?
I don’t always agree with Sundance, but this kind of analysis is why I frequent his site. Absolutely outstanding.
I would like to see a six ways to Sunday op against chuck shumer. And watch him squirm and deny.
I have looked for years, and in my estimation there are none like this blog.
It stands alone.
I am a little faster than you ,took me about 5 minutes. And another 5 minutes to setup a monthly donation to CTH on PayPal.
Applause. Seriously, applause.
Cold Hard Truth is not normally commercially acceptable.
100%
Using Gemini 2.0 with the prompt, “Please review this Presidential Executive Order and determine the effects on IC influence on National Security Council decision making: (EO text)”
Output:
This Executive Order (NSPM-1) significantly alters the structure and function of the National Security Council (NSC), with potential implications for Intelligence Community (IC) influence on national security decision-making. Here’s a breakdown of the effects:
1. Reduced Formal IC Representation at the Highest Levels:
2. Increased Power of the National Security Advisor and NSC Staff:
3. Potential Effects on IC Influence:
4. Counterarguments and Potential Mitigations:
Overall Assessment:
NSPM-1, as written, is likely to reduce the formal influence of the IC within the NSC decision-making process. By emphasizing the role of the NSA and NSC staff, and by relegating the DNI, CIA Director, and CJCS to non-voting advisory roles, the order creates a structure where the IC’s voice may be less prominent. However, the IC’s actual influence will ultimately depend on factors such as the quality of its intelligence, the strength of its relationships with key officials, and the effectiveness of existing oversight mechanisms.
It’s important to note that the effects of this order will unfold over time and may be influenced by the personalities and leadership styles of the individuals involved. The extent to which the IC’s role is diminished or enhanced will depend on how this new structure is implemented and how the various players navigate its complexities.
Add to this another thought: there is more going on here than just applying adult supervision vis completeness and coherence of intelligence reaching the President. It’s redistributing decision-making power that had been usurped back into the executive. In some respects, it is a strategic change that elevates the importance of the roles identified in the memo. In particular, and obviously, insofar as national security goes, ODNI and SecDEF
Not that it means anything (it doesn’t), while I am enthusiastic about the nominations I can convey that among my fellow military retirees there are some reservations about the experience qualifications of these individuals (DNI, SecDEF) for their assigned/appointed roles. There is none at the COCOM, national military planning policy and top level AT&L levels. During the OJT phase of all of this it will be vital that immediate staffs of these people be populated with equally loyal individuals with long experience in respective communities of interest (DoD, Intel).
SecDEF is the ony NSC member who sits in the operational chain-of-command (Pres-> SecDEF -> COCOMS-> downward). All the rest are advisors. SA purposes from a “lives are at stake” pov.
It might just be over my head in what you are saying but it seems to me that what you are suggesting is exactly what they want to avoid.
Not over your head. I have my own way of communicating that can wander at times.
Sundance has articulated the core structural issue this EO addresses. Think of it this way, the production line that produces the raw and processed materials (data, information, analysis, predictions, estimates, recommendations) input to national security decision-making has proven untrustworthy. It is untrustworthy because the materials are ersatz: substituted, inferior in quality compared to real intelligence. The President is changing the rules of the game by directly tasking people and roles he trusts inside the NSC community to reintroduce “quality control” driven by the decisions he prioritizes.
No arguing that investigative insight.
I was simply introducing a concern – not leveling a blast at where this is all headed. Some of the major players in this are seen by myself and military friends/retirees as lacking experience at more senior levels in corporate (cuz, in many ways, that’s what it is) mil/intel – how it really works behind the curtains in the C suite. The observation was that there will be some trying OJT at the outset. Since there isn’t room for error (lives are stake, after all), ensure these people are staffed with folks who have lived and understand the playground (as well as meeting all the loyalty, integrity, etc., requirements).
If you are referring to the notion of staff – it’s not a problem addressed by a simple head count. Every senior official has a direct support staff. Make sure its fit to purpose.
There are plenty of upper-level management types and 20+ year military personnel (enlisted & commissioned) who actually only have maybe 5-6 years experience.
And then there are those with 12 years job time who have 25+years experience.
Zero eliminated most of the warrior Generals. What we have left are political generals and lets face reality, how really difficult is it to tell an E-4 pogue to look up a regulation for you & type up a paper for you to submit. Or better yet, how troubling for the desktop command general to use government assets to fly across country for an ORI or some other inspection when all he really wants is a few days in the sun & to play a coupl’a rounds on a championship course.
My point being that I believe that your concerns are unfounded. Trump has a YUGE organization and is a ‘hands on’ CEO with years of experience. He’s been around the block a coupl’a times and even down to the corner grocer, dare I say he’s probably even been to a county fair or two. Granted he was a bit wet behind the ears when it came to running a country, but I believe it is safe to say that he is a quick learner and he learned well.
Not SecDEFs.
With all that experience PRIOR TO TAKING THE TOP JOB notwithstanding, the powers that be often ran circles around PDJT his first term. Precisely the point!
Not what I’m referring to. The field savvy O-4 (with SecDEF Hegseth’s resume) have not sat in the Pentagon J-7/J-3/CNO/ etc., etc., front offices and actually experienced all the intricacies, all the run-arounds, all the p-way conversations, all the off-record phone-calls, read all the Congressionals, understand in depth how staffs at, say, AT&L can bully outcomes; sat in very senior command emergency calls with the President….that senior officers/enlisted engage in, are groomed over the course of a career to fill.
I recall helo’ing with a numbered Fleet Commander to a CVN being evaluated during an exercise. He leaned over and passed “I know within five minutes of arriving on deck whether a command is well run or not.” Can’t do that without experience at all levels – that includes more elevated commands in the grand scheme of things.
Otherwise, I agree with your thoughts on politicization of promotions, warrior generals, looking up regulations. Not the same as decision-making at the NSC/Presidential level.
Note that DEI based promotions are a variant of the same problem.
What happens to the current bureaucrats at the NSC? Have they been removed? It sounds like they are not in the current structure as outlined. I guess Mike Waltz has yet to inform them?
They were informed to resign at 12:01pm on Jan 20th a few days ago 😉
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/here-we-go-jake-sullivan-told-nsc-staffers/
Jake Sullivan is trying to convince the staffers to stay and undermine President Trump like they did in 2017
With or without restructure, they should ALL be removed.
Thank you Sundance from all of us.
Schumer’s “six ways from Sunday” loses a few ways.
Changes from previous procedures/policy? Exactly who was involved in writing this? That’s something that should always be disclosed, but probably never is, just as research studies have a “Conflicts of Interest” section. If I had a way to contact Mike Benz, but I don’t, I’d love to know what he thinks about it.
I’m assuming the President knows who wrote this and assigned them to do the job. If nothing else, I assume he read it and understood it and is the one signing off on it. If you knew who wrote it what would it matter could you change something about it? I would assume someone wrote it whom President Trump wanted to write it. Why should it be disclosed? Can you imagine Pres. Trump having to disclose everything someone else wrote for him. It would guess it was a collaboration with Trump accepting it in the end. Pretty much how companies work. The CEO isn’t sitting up there writing his own stuff that’s why he has staff.
It would be nice to know, specifically, who the advisors are that wrote this EO. Was it Michael Ellis, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel, John Ratcliffe, Tulsi Gabbard? Just the fact that he has advisors with the philosphy and ability to write this is reassuring.
Interesting post from Rod D Martin:
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/01/21/tanking-security-clearance-thread-n2407073
That’s a good mini article but I think he should take away far more than the 51.
Gina Haspell and all leadership that approved what they did should be on that list as well.
Sundance, your courage and steadfastness has produced fruits.
I almost had tears in my eyes as I read President Trump stating we will NOT be advised or be implementing; “whole-of-government and even whole-of-society approaches’.
Hope springs eternal, a new dawn has indeed begun. But the howling and gnashing of teeth begins, let us be vigilant in our prayers.
Uncle Jack: “The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control.”
You know who else agrees with Sundance?
These guys:
One month to the day after Pres. Kennedy’s assassination, Pres. Truman published an Op-Ed in The Washington Post:
The Washington Post (December 22, 1963)“Limit CIA Role To Intelligence” by Harry S Truman
“INDEPENDENCE, MO., Dec. 21 — I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency—CIA. At least, I would like to submit here the original reason why I thought it necessary to organize this Agency during my Administration, what I expected it to do and how it was to operate as an arm of the President.
I think it is fairly obvious that by and large a President’s performance in office is as effective as the information he has and the information he gets. That is to say, that assuming the President himself possesses a knowledge of our history, a sensitive understanding of our institutions, and an insight into the needs and aspirations of the people, he needs to have available to him the most accurate and up-to-the-minute information on what is going on everywhere in the world, and particularly of the trends and developments in all the danger spots in the contest between East and West. This is an immense task and requires a special kind of an intelligence facility.
Of course, every President has available to him all the information gathered by the many intelligence agencies already in existence. The Departments of State, Defense, Commerce, Interior and others are constantly engaged in extensive information gathering and have done excellent work.
But their collective information reached the President all too frequently in conflicting conclusions. At times, the intelligence reports tended to be slanted to conform to established positions of a given department. This becomes confusing and what’s worse, such intelligence is of little use to a President in reaching the right decisions.
Therefore, I decided to set up a special organization charged with the collection of all intelligence reports from every available source, and to have those reports reach me as President without department “treatment” or interpretations.
I wanted and needed the information in its “natural raw” state and in as comprehensive a volume as it was practical for me to make full use of it. But the most important thing about this move was to guard against the chance of intelligence being used to influence or to lead the President into unwise decisions—and I thought it was necessary that the President do his own thinking and evaluating.
Since the responsibility for decision making was his—then he had to be sure that no information is kept from him for whatever reason at the discretion of any one department or agency, or that unpleasant facts be kept from him. There are always those who would want to shield a President from bad news or misjudgments to spare him from being “upset.”
For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas.
I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations. Some of the complications and embarrassment I think we have experienced are in part attributable to the fact that this quiet intelligence arm of the President has been so removed from its intended role that it is being interpreted as a symbol of sinister and mysterious foreign intrigue—and a subject for cold war enemy propaganda.
With all the nonsense put out by Communist propaganda about “Yankee imperialism,” “exploitive capitalism,” “war-mongering,” “monopolists,” in their name-calling assault on the West, the last thing we needed was for the CIA to be seized upon as something akin to a subverting influence in the affairs of other people.
I well knew the first temporary director of the CIA, Adm. Souers, and the later permanent directors of the CIA, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg and Allen Dulles. These were men of the highest character, patriotism and integrity—and I assume this is true of all those who continue in charge.
But there are now some searching questions that need to be answered. I, therefore, would like to see the CIA be restored to its original assignment as the intelligence arm of the President, and that whatever else it can properly perform in that special field—and that its operational duties be terminated or properly used elsewhere.
We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position, and I feel that we need to correct it.”…….
BTW, Pres. Truman changed his mind about the “high character” of JFK’s killer Allen Dulles:
JFK Facts » 17):
“Former CIA director Allen Dulles tried and failed to change Truman’s story
Four months later, former CIA director Allen Dulles paid Truman a visit. Dulles tried to get Truman to retract what he had written in the Post.
“No dice, said Truman,” according to McGovern/Marcus.
But four days later, in a formal memo for Lawrence Houston, the CIA’s general counsel, Dulles fabricated a retraction. He claimed that Truman told him the Washington Post article was “all wrong,” and that Truman “seemed quite astounded at [Dulles’ lies].”
Truman denied it. In a June 10, 1964, letter to Look magazine, Truman restated his critique of covert action, emphasizing that he never intended the CIA to get involved in “strange activities.”
As the country grieved JFK’s death and suspicions of conspiracy mounted, many current and former U.S. officials publicly rallied around the official story that Oswald had killed JFK alone and unaided.
But privately many people familiar with the workings of the CIA had their doubts. Truman’s article was one of the earliest expression of those doubts. Others would follow.”…….
“…Whatever it Takes.”
Thanks for posting those photos.
True dat about JFK!
Except, of course, for dalliances with foreign spies (Arvad) and mob babes (Exner)!
excellent reading. Personally, I’ve always blamed Johnson for the death of John over his desire for Jackie. Not saying he didn’t use the CIA though.
He hounded her mercilessly.
Like she would ever be his. Fat chance. She had much better and more expensive aristocratic taste than that.
That was quite an interesting read. Truman realized what his creation was morphing into and wanted it curtailed. Obviously others did not. Look where we are today and yes I heard RFK jr say the CIA killed his uncle and his father and he named the guy who actually was the one who killed his dad.
People are Policy. It didn’t matter what the official mission of the CIA was supposed to be, because the people who established the CIA just continued over from the CIA’s predecessor the OSS – “Wild Bill” Donovan and company.
The OSS was “The Department of Dirty Tricks” copied on the British SOE model as a group of upper-class, highly educated elite adventurers sent into enemy territory to sabotage, stir up insurrections and create mayhem. They recruited lawyers, academics and rich playboys. “Direct Action” not intelligence gathering and analysis was always the preferred and most high-status role. Intelligence gathering and analysis were just grafted on and always played second fiddle, almost as a cover-story to hide the real game.
Too many Presidents kept the CIA the way it was because those Presidents liked having a crew of dirty tricksters on staff.
But when you feed and fund and rely on some very self-important but immoral dirty tricksters it didn’t take long until they turned on the establishment itself and positioned themselves to pull the strings behind the entire government.
Donald Trump does not give his enemies the fight they are prepared for, He restructures the battlefield.
The Kobayashi Maru?
I assume 9.11.2001 (under Bush) eventually turned the NSC into a Deep State apparatus. The excuse for 9.11 was that every intel agency was operating as a silo and needed to start working together to prevent the next terrorist attack. Too bad the NSC abused their authority and turned against the American people.
Not just Waltz. Stephen Miller will be the Homeland Security Advisor.
2. NSC Staffing Responsibilities of the National Security Advisor.
(a) Role of the National Security Advisor. The National Security Advisor shall be responsible, as appropriate and at the President’s direction, for determining the agenda for the NSC, ensuring that the necessary papers are prepared, and recording and communicating Council actions and Presidential decisions in a timely manner.
(b) Role of the Homeland Security Advisor. When convened as the HSC, the duties referenced in subsection (2)(a) shall be the responsibility of the Homeland Security Advisor.
“.. will realize the ‘Seven Ways from Sunday’ group no longer hold power. “
Minor sidebar:
““Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.”
Eh! Ways and Means!
Seventh Way = Deep, Dark State…
Now that the power has changed, Chuckie might be kind of nervous about that statement.
I’m just curious…who are the candidates for the PCCs…the Policy Coordination Committees….who will be the people chosen & appointed for those Committees ? from within which Depts ?
“…multiple Executive departments and agencies…” or from somewhere else…?
In comparison to this Order this is smaller issue but still some very important that needs done along these lines.
REACTIVATE the 2019 Presidential Order that REMOVED US Troops out from under the direct control of the IC as well as State Department.
Before that Order, US Special Forces and other DoD assets were used as the brute force element of US IC and State Department operations. Those forces had been drawn from DoD assets placed under “command” of the IC and State Department for their use as needed.
This forces the deliberate action of DoD , the state Department and IC actors to conduct TASK ORGANIZATION discussions for actions involving US Troops.
Can we call this “the Sundance EO”?
It would only be fitting.
SSCI is the rat hole of hell.
Thank God somebody’s paying attention to Sundance.
The problem with all the three letter agencies/bureaucracies is that they run right into a faceful of;
“I never knew you,
(D)epart from me you workers of iniquity.”…
aka…
The Fourth Amendment.
But We can deal with that in 100 days or so.
More winning.
Trust God.
Fear not.
The ghost in the machine exercises its control through the IC that it infiltrated and captured. It goes WAY back. Listen for the reaction to this. It will not come from within the US government, but from the ghost itself. It will be subtle. Listen for it.
Much like in The Godfather, where Michael is told that the person who brings him the message will be the traitor, listen for where the comment on this comes from. That’s the ghost, the only one affected by it. It may speak through another captured entity. The challenge is to see through the fog.
“The Chief Executive must control all elements of national security policy and implementation.”
While this statement is true as the day is long, I will ADD the relevant detail “The Chief Executive must be CAPABLE of understanding and controlling all elements of national security policy and implementation.”
We haven’t enjoyed anyone, not even Reagan, who has been as capable and as competent as Trump before. As if anyone needed any reminder — THIS is why they hate him. Everyone else has been either fooled or outright controlled.
A ‘couple of three things’ guys:
1.Their black budgets outside of civilian control, we’re talking billions of taxpayers’ dollars;
2.Their control over the largest tech and financial companies through a vast network of offshore and domestic investment companies and trusts of all types and sizes funded through legal, semi-legal, and outright illegal activities (not going to explain, but know that they do everything you thought they were doing, and then some…);
3.Their databases and surveillance tools, again, both legal and illegal, that are being deployed to control the elected and unelected government officials, judges, foreign governments, CEO’s and board members of multinational corporations.
The IC is a stage four (metastatic) cancer. Yes, you can do some chemo and you may do some radiation therapy to control it, but, unless you eliminate everything at once and decimate its resources, it will grow back eventually.
Sundance is talking about the civilian control mechanism and how the system preserves a veneer of constitutional legitimacy while protecting itself from the American people by selecting the “leaders” acceptable to the people on the inside.
The real problem is way worse, WAAAAAAY worse, and I am not picturing President Trump or anybody else going after their resources. Why? Because it would be like auditing the Federal Reserve–all serious people can predict the outcome and nobody really wants to find out.
I think black Rock is a front and money laundering operation owned and operated by the CIA.
Carlyle, BlackRock and all banks and corporate boards they controls… You will be surprised to find BlackRock as shareholder of the smallest community banks in states like W. Va.
The IC controls big tech giants like Google, Amazon (AWS was practically an IC project), Meta, and everything that runs on Google or AWS servers.
There are thousands of small companies and banks both in America and abroad… Some of them are disposable, some of them are not, depending on the risk profile.
I met guys like Cofer Black in places you couldn’t possibly imagine… Why would a CIA veteran like Cofer Black (who served as director of the Counterterrorism Center in the years surrounding 9/11) sit on board of a small, unknown, shady bank in Eastern Europe owned by a Russian guy who, as it turned out, was a CI working for the Soviet KGB?
And they know full well that no U.S. president could risk a collapse by exposing their criminal activities.
They’ve done their homework this time. How does this become permanent?
It becomes permanent when we have NEWS REPORTING that subsequent presidents are ABDICATING THEIR ROLES as National Security chair! And while the structure absolutely allows for others assigned to act as chair, there should be a way for the public to know whether or not the sitting president has been acting as chair and has been present.
If the media says crap like “the president can’t be bothered with such trivial things and that they will brief him” should be thought of by the public as UNACCEPTABLE.
The standards and expectations must be set in such a way that the public will feel something is missing.
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search for “presidential daily brief”
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I see that Stephen Miller will be a regular attendee of these meetings (The Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy) and I think Alina Habba as The Assistant to the President and Counsel to the President (I think that is her).
Stephen Miller is someone who is trusted by DJT. He is smart and aligned on the issues.
He is not afraid.
“ This process hinges upon the execution of National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
We will watch closely.”
I’m Sure President Trump will be watching closely as well.
“The best way to remove their power is to use their primary weapon, their silo structure, against them.”
I also think that revoking security clearances can be effective and can serve as a strategy of removal. If they have no security clearance they cannot perform the functions of their employment. No reason is necessary for the pres to revoke security clearances but firing folks might make for some legal suits. This might work well for career employees who were not politically appointed but have played a part in the rogue operations. Blackmail and illegally obtaining NSA date probably is their greatest weapon and power.
Hunting down the rogue operators and punishing them at all levels will disincentivize rogue operators in the future. Even those who were pardoned might still be investigated, swatted, etc. Punishing the perps is more effective than tweaking the structures. There are thousands who partook in these crimes and ALL must be punished even the most minor. This is the “draining of the swamp” I was promised and never got the first term.
Examples need to be made. “_______ just found guilty & sentenced to 20 years at Leavenworth. Fill in the blank, lots of possibilities from the alphabet agencies.
It is worth noticing that this Executive Order is written in clear, plain English. Many government documents are not. This bodes well not only for this important restructuring of the NSC, but for President Trump’s control of the Executive Branch generally. Kudos to the authors and editors.
“The IC become simply information functionaries. ”
Last we heard, the information collection, analysis, and manipulation/dissemination are only part of what they do.
Let’s see how this goes ….
I thought Tulsi at DNI was the critical appointment?
Glad someone was listening to you SD. This looks promising for sure so let’s see what they actually do. At least they are looking into it and doing some things.
With regard to the advisors and system of advice to Pres Trump, I cringed yesterday when I heard Pres Trump say the Russians had lost 1 million men in Ukraine and the Ukrainians much fewer This is not correct. It is the other way round. Who is telling him this nonsense?
Also his comment about BRICS being weak was cringeworthy as well.
cross posted at https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/6632/president-restructures-national-security-council