In a properly running National Security Council, this wouldn’t have happened. To arrange Mr. Trump’s reversal of General McMaster’s dismissal of Mr. Cohen-Watnick, Mr. Bannon required no formal position on the National Security Council. Matt Pottinger, the senior director for Asia at the National Security Council, had warned in a memo against using such language. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyNational Security Council proceedings are necessarily secret and unavoidably opaque to the public. But if that is the case, the situation calls into question the National Security Council’s very utility.

Source: New York Times April 06, 2017 00:44 UTC