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National Security Council (view source)
Revision as of 06:14, April 30, 2017
, 06:14, April 30, 2017→Obama administration
...domestic politics had a role in the debates about national security issues that I had not previously experienced.}}
...domestic politics had a role in the debates about national security issues that I had not previously experienced.}}
Def. Sec. [[Leon Panetta]] said:
{{Quotebox|[P]roximity is everything when you’re operating at the White House. The person that’s closest to the president has greater influence than even a cabinet member, who may be located elsewhere in a department...Staff people tried to read, 'what is it that the president wants?' And then try, through the back door, [to] influence the direction of policy. What that does is it undermines the very process that a president needs, in order to get the best discussion and information possible, to be able to make the right decisions.}}
==See also==
==See also==