{"id":31331,"date":"2017-08-08T12:24:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31331"},"modified":"2017-08-08T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:24:07","slug":"the-swamp-is-a-danger-to-american-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31331","title":{"rendered":"The Swamp Is A Danger To American National Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

On August 4th, Daniel Greenfield posted an article at Front Page Magazine<\/a> about National Security Council<\/a> head H.R. McMaster<\/a>.\u00a0 Daniel Greenfield has concluded that McMaster is part of the deep state and is working against the interests of both America<\/a> and the Trump Administration. At this point I should mention that like it or not, Donald Trump<\/a> is the President, and working against Donald Trump is working against the interests of America. It is not patriotic to oppose anything and everything the Trump Administration proposes–it is obstructionism. The Washington establishment’s worst nightmare is for the Trump Administration to succeed–that will be the end of their stranglehold on our government and their success as an elite class.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

Derek Harvey<\/a> was a man who saw things coming. He had warned of Al Qaeda when most chose to ignore it. He had seen the Sunni insurgency rising when most chose to deny it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The former Army colonel<\/a> had made his reputation by learning the lay of the land. In Iraq that meant sleeping on mud floors and digging into documents to figure out where the threat was coming from.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was hard to imagine anyone better qualified to serve as President Trump\u2019s top Middle East adviser at the National Security Council than a man who had been on the ground in Iraq and who had seen it all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just like in Iraq, Harvey began digging at the NSC<\/a>. He came up with a list<\/a> of Obama holdovers who were leaking to the press. McMaster, the new head of the NSC, refused to fire any of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

McMaster had a different list of people he wanted to fire. It was easy to make the list. Harvey was on it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

All you had to do was name Islamic terrorism as the problem and oppose the Iran Deal. If you came in with Flynn, you would be out. If you were loyal to Trump, your days were numbered.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And if you warned about Obama holdovers undermining the new administration, you were a target.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of McMaster\u2019s first acts at the NSC was to ban any mention<\/a> of \u201cObama holdovers.\u201d Not only did the McMaster coup purge Harvey, who had assembled the holdover list, but his biggest target was Ezra Watnick-Cohen, who had exposed the eavesdropping on Trump officials by Obama personnel<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems as if the NSC under McMaster has turned political,\u00a0 gotten totally out of control, and needs to be promptly reined in.<\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

Ezra Watnick-Cohen had provided proof of the Obama surveillance to House Intelligence Committee<\/a> Chairman Devin Nunes<\/a>. McMaster, however, was desperately working to fire him and replace him with Linda Weissgold. McMaster\u2019s choice to replace Watnick-Cohen was the woman who helped draft<\/a> the Benghazi talking points which blamed the Islamic terrorist attack<\/a> on a video protest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After protests by Bannon and Kushner, President Trump overruled McMaster. Watnick-Cohen stayed. For a while. Now Ezra Watnick-Cohen has been fired anyway.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the media, Watnick-Cohen was guilty of \u201canti-Muslim fervor\u201d and \u201chardline views.\u201d And there\u2019s no room for anyone telling the truth about Islamic terrorism at McMaster\u2019s NSC.<\/strong><\/p>\n

McMaster had even demanded that President Trump refrain from telling the truth about Islamic terrorism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another of his targets was Rich Higgins<\/a>, who had written a memo warning of the role of the left in undermining counterterrorism. Higgins had served as a director for strategic planning at the NSC. He had warned in plain language about the threat of Islamic terrorism, of Sharia law, of the Hijrah colonization by Islamic migrants, of the Muslim Brotherhood, and of its alliance with the left as strategic threats.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please follow the link to read the entire article. It is chilling to think that a group of people have become so entrenched in a government agency that they will risk the security of America to remain in power.<\/p>\n

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