Trump's First 100 Days

[Dill]

(01-31-2017, 12:52 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: Frankly, I've been more concerned about the Bannon deal than I have about anything else Trump has done so far. My Senator, McCain, spoke out against this just a couple of days ago. Bannon doesn't have the professional qualifications to be there and to provide input on those decisions. This is besides the point of his personal baggage.

I agree with you on that, B-zona.  Combine that with his pick for national security adviser, and his desire to downgrade the JCS input, and it seems national security issues and intel will be channeled through a Breitbart-style filter.

I have made this analogy before--it seems like Trump is doing with the NSC what Cheney did with his Office of Special Plans, which was spinning out conspiracy as intel product and mixing it with interagency reports to send to Congress. The difference is that Trump's Office of SP will be the NSC itself.

There are so many other Trump distractions now that Congress and the press may pass over this until they have to explain a foreign policy or national security disaster based upon the intel equivalent of fake news.