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It is the only accurate source of information available right now. Very grateful to everyone who has contributed their time, talents, and energy.
Many blessings to you all.
Anybody got those numbers we dug up awhile back, which show how many more NSC members popped up in the White House during Obama's terms?
Especially if you look back over the last 25 years or so, there are a TON more National Security Council bureaucrappers around than we had only 25 years ago.
Those fuckers have been methodically injecting themselves into OUR HOUSE for years.
Look what I found!
A searchable spreadsheet on a gubmint website, listing all National Security Council employees in Washington DC, with their annual salaries!
They average $112k a year. Lovely.
https://www.federalpay.org/employees/national-security-council
the NSC had a policymaking staff of 12 in 1962 when President Kennedy faced down the Soviet Union during the Cuban missile crisis. During the 2000s and the George W. Bush administration, the number of NSC staff members increased sharply to support the three-front conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terrorism.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/31/robert-obrien-cuts-national-security-council-staff/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/book-review-white-house-warriors-national-security-council-role/
"The NSC oversteps and micromanages, there is too much distrust between the principals and within the NSC, and the commander-in-chief and his national-security adviser fail to assert themselves to settle disputes. This explains why Obama’s much-ballyhooed “team of rivals” approach to cabinet-building ended up being such a disaster."
Thank you for pointing out this very important legal habbening.
Now REAL whistleblowers are protected.