Steve Bannon is trying to turn the president against his national security advisor, McMasters.

[SummerSnow]

BY KATE BRANNEN MAY 9, 2017

Inside the White House, opponents of Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, President Donald Trump’s second national security advisor, want him out. This week, they’ve made their campaign against him public, leaking to reporters details about the rocky relationship he has with his boss and trying to paint him as someone hellbent on overseas nation-building projects that are doomed to fail. The timing isn’t accidental. The effort to damage McMaster comes as the Trump administration decides what its policy should be in Afghanistan, a debate that’s pitting McMaster against Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist......Read the rest at the link


http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/09/the-knives-are-out-for-hr-mcmaster-trump-bannon-nsc/


* The clock is ticking on McMasters too

[Sculpin Beauregard]

1. Yup! I called it the other day. Comey and the generals were

the only thing standing between USA as a democracy and as a fascist state.

This is serious. Deadly serious.

[octoberlib]

2. Bannon's a fucking cancer.