The national security adviser’s job traditionally is to chair meetings of principals — Cabinet and agency heads — and to coordinate among them to provide the president with a series of options for national security decisions. “The buck still stops at the White House,” Rice wrote. Over the years, the White House staff has expanded to cover virtually every area of national security policy. is that the NSC staff works best when it is mean but lean,” she wrote in the notice. “On the National Security Council we will serve four primary functions,” Flynn said.

Source: Washington Post January 17, 2017 11:04 UTC