EZRA COHEN WATNICK dig…still digging.
should keep info here as his privacy seems pretty important
background-grew up in Montgomery County, MD. (Chevy Chase). Mom doctor, Colombian. Dad, lawyer.
grad CCHS 2004. (Interned for JOE BIDEN in HS)
Univ of Penn in 2004. involved in on-campus Terrorism Awareness Week whicih was connected to David Horowitz's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.
Sept 2007 told a friend that main goal was working for CIA. Talked about DIA as back up to CIA for him.
"One White House colleague who has known Cohen-Watnick for a long time described 9/11 as a formative event for him…."
2008 final year at Penn; details murky.
"…was listed on an online roster among a group that attended the Penn in D.C. internship program in Washington in 2009, in his case interning with the Office of Naval Intelligence."
He took a Navy civilian job after college.
Joined DIA in 2010 and left in Jan of 2017. Raised 3-4 ranks during.
Reported entered Defense Clandestine Service in 2012 and was sent to "the farm" in 2013.
Had done work on Haiti while based out of the DOD's Miami office. Registered in Miami in 2012.
Later served overseas in Afghanistan at CIA base. Embedded with Agency guys. (2013?)
Tied to Flynn but "how" reports are conflicting.
-One had asserted that he had met Matt Flynn at "the farm."
-One had said that ECW briefed Flynn at DIA.
-One had said they met in 2016 at a coffee arranged by Barbara Ledeen, wife of Michael Ledeen/ a friend of Flynn's and co-author.
(Flynn forced out of DIA in 2014 by Clapper and Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Mike Vickers)- Vickers needs more "love" from us imo……..
August 2016, ECW married Rebecca Miller.
Flynn brought him into WH position as Senior Director for Intelligence programs on NSC. He remained in position until 8/3/17. One previous take-down attempt by McMaster reportedly stopped by POTUS via Bannon and Kushner.
ECW was reported to be the "source" that got with Nunes to get to the scif and check out the unmaskings.
After August, he went to work at Oracle in DC.
Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle was on executive committee of Trump transition team and only Silicon Valley connection in addition to Peter Thiel. She had been considered as DNI reportedly or as a US Trade Representative.
SC " Mnuchin and President-elect Trump will disrupt the status quo and promote higher growth and better wages…."
"Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, the NSC's chief of staff, has also worked at Oracle. In 2003, he retired from the Army and became senior vice president for homeland security solutions at the company. Later that year, he took a short leave of absence to work at the chief operating officer fo the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq under L. Paul Bremer."
also:
"Cohen-Watnick's hawkish policy views on Iran, including broadening the war in Syria to take on Iran's proxy forces there to using U.S. spies to help force regime change in Tehran, also got him into trouble with other Trump administration officals, including Defense Secretary James Mattis, who disagreed with him on these issues."
Also fired by McMaster: ret. Army Col. Derek Harvey (back now with Nunes on Capitol Hill)(said to be an influential voice on Syra, Iran and counterterrorism) and Rich Higgins. (need digging)
-"Harvey also drew the ire of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Pentagon officials, who thought that he was trying to set policy rather than coordinate among the different departments and agencies. Some Iraqi officials complained to the Pentagon and U.S. Central Command that Harvey seemed to be telling them where to position their troops, an official said…"
Reminder: K.T. McFarland made Ambassador to Singapore (what has SHE been up to?)
When McMaster tried the first time to ouster ECW, he had Linda Weissgold of CIA interviewed for the job. Weissgold had been in the CIA's Office fo Terrorism Analysis (on The Dream Team) for the Benghazi briefing in 2012 and is said to have been involved in the terminology change from Al Qaeda to "protests" in the Benhazi talking points.
Sources:
https:// www.frontpagemag.com/point/266283/deep-states-war-ezra-cohen-watnick-daniel-greenfield
https:// www.justsecurity.org/44897/ousted-nsc-official-takes-job-oracle-cohen-watnick/
https:// heavy.com/news/2017/03/ezra-cohen-watnick-devin-nunes-sources-wiretapping-intelligence-donald-trump-nsc-wife-who-is-age-staffer/
https:// www.nytimes.com/?action=click&contentCollection=Politics®ion=TopBar&module=HomePage-Title&pgtype=article
https:// www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mcmaster-ousts-senior-official-on-national-security-council/2017/07/27/f7ace7ac-72e8-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.76032b92e24d
http:// barenakedislam.com/2017/08/06/under-trumps-national-security-advisor-h-r-mcmaster-the-national-security-council-is-becoming-a-national-security-threat/