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MALCOLM NANCE: If Gen McMaster couldn't get Ezra Cohen-Watnick out... then guy is buried in there for reasonLink to tweet
Botany
(70,510 posts)Just how deep and how wide is the rot of "Trump's Kremlin Clan?"*
* Credit for the Trump's Kremlin Clan meme to Maxine Waters.
SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)appal_jack
(3,813 posts)kentuck
(111,098 posts)He could be the liaison between Donald Trump and General Flynn? Flynn may be gone but still advising Donald? They could have conspired together to come up with this "immunity" plot, for whatever reason?
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)McMaster isn't an inside loyalist, they wouldn't let him pick his own NSC Dir Intel.
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)He's too young to be a real Russia connection IMO.
Play six degrees of separation with the Trump cabal and you hit the Russian border at stage 3, or sooner.
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)Russian company linked back to one of Trump's henchmen (Manafort?). I apologize. I read it last night on a Twitter link that is reliable, but I fell asleep right after. I'll try to find it. I remember being impressed that people had lost no time investigating him.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)The other night, Malcolm Nance scoffed at the notion that he had enough experience and seniority to quality for that WH post.
He's a plant. He's a mole. He's another one of Trump's goons, unqualified and there solely to protect Trump from his laundry list of crimes.
3catwoman3
(24,002 posts)...but totally dismissive.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)I believe McMaster thinks he is doing his duty, but at some point, he can do greater service by rejecting this bufoon and his shitty coterie.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)This after he was promised complete, unfettered control of his department.
Enoki33
(1,587 posts)is not hyperbole. Can't quite believe it is necessary to say that.
calimary
(81,297 posts)He's one of the most credible voices in the "commentariat" these days.
If I were president I think I'd want him on my National Security team - if not its top-ranking member. He knows his stuff.
UNLIKE green kids such as that young Ezra boy. Yep. They wanted to keep him there for a reason. For their "eyes and ears" maybe? To keep tabs on the other staffers? To listen in on their lunch-room chit-chat? Monitor the gossip for dissenters - or people starting to have second thoughts or starting to fall away?
Whatever the case, considering this bunch, I'd expect the worst.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)a republican speciality
Turbineguy
(37,337 posts)what are the chances he has nothing to fear?
At the very least it was, "I don't wanna know...!"
Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)His talent is being a spy on the people within the government disloyal to the fuher. No one would expect a neophyte, but a neophyte also does stupid shit like burning down the house. This whole administration is staffed with incompetents.
lastlib
(23,239 posts)placed there to ensure that everybody toes the party line....
TheBlackAdder
(28,205 posts)canetoad
(17,164 posts)Kushner and Bannon intervened. He is apparently tight with Kushner.
Also, what 30 year old doesn't have a face pic somewhere on the net?
SharonAnn
(13,776 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)But hey, who's counting impeachable offenses anymore!
Recursion
(56,582 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)By Nathan Guttman
March 30, 2017
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He attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 2008. Cohen-Watnick began working as an intelligence analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency after college. At the DIA, Cohen-Watnick met Flynn, the then-director who was later removed from his position during the Obama administration.
After Trump won the November election, Flynn brought Cohen-Watnick from the DIA to the Trump transition team, where the young staffer, according to The Washington Post, was among the few Trump advisers to hold a top security clearance. He participated in high-level intelligence briefings and briefed Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and their team on national security issues.
When Flynn was appointed to lead the National Security Council, he hired Cohen-Watnick to work with him there. But Flynn served as national security adviser for less than a month before being asked to leave following revelations that he had maintained ties with Russia during the campaign.
Flynns successor, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, sought to remove Cohen-Watnick from the team, following input from the CIA director who pointed to problems intelligence officers had when dealing with Cohen-Watnick. Questions were raised about his ability to carry out the position of senior NSC director for intelligence programs, who oversees ties with intelligence agencies and vets information that should reach the presidents desk.
Read more: http://forward.com/news/367690/meet-ezra-cohen-watnick-the-secret-source-at-the-center-of-trump-russia-pro/
BadGimp
(4,015 posts)benld74
(9,904 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)they are planting apparatchiks in the agencies to stooge for Trump.
alt righters and other fascist true believers scattered here and there.
Then some of the agencies they of course have gutted to centralize the power to the WH and cabinet.