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National Security Council (view source)
Revision as of 08:08, August 27, 2021
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It also saw the institution of a presidential "kill list" for persons – including US citizens – deemed Obama's enemies by a surreptitious process that likely violates US constitutional law<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cia-killlist-idUSTRE79475C20111005</ref> and most assuredly violates international law.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/07/07/obamas-new-executive-order-on-drones-means-the-u-s-may-still-violate-international-law/</ref> Having disposed of international agreements, the [[Russia]]n government and others felt obliged to do the same.<ref>https://www.rt.com/news/putin-rt-interview-full-577/</ref>
It also saw the institution of a presidential "kill list" for persons – including US citizens – deemed Obama's enemies by a surreptitious process that likely violates US constitutional law<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cia-killlist-idUSTRE79475C20111005</ref> and most assuredly violates international law.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/07/07/obamas-new-executive-order-on-drones-means-the-u-s-may-still-violate-international-law/</ref> Having disposed of international agreements, the [[Russia]]n government and others felt obliged to do the same.<ref>https://www.rt.com/news/putin-rt-interview-full-577/</ref>
[[File:C9Pak4-W0AIldKy (1).jpg|right|450px|thumb|Jake Sullivan<ref>Obama Sec. of Defense [[Chuck Hagel]] said Sullivan is one of Obama's
{{Quotebox-float|"35-year-old PhDs who love to talk, because that's the way you let everybody know how smart you are, is how much you talk."}} Hagel continues, "[Obama] has a staff around him that's very inexperienced. I don't think there's one veteran on his senior staff at the White House. I don't believe there's one business person. I don't believe there's one person who's ever run anything. Other than [[Vice President Biden]], none of them have ever been elected to anything." Sec. [[Robert Gates]] criticized "staffers calling senior commanders out in the field and asking them questions, of second guessing commanders...I told my combatant commanders and field commanders … if you get calls from … the president, that's one thing. But if you get a call from some White House or National Security Council staffer, you tell them to call me instead, and then tell them, by the way, go to hell." Hagel also criticized [[Susan Rice]]'s approach and subservience to Obama. https://youtu.be/GPPx83VoLyY</ref> to [[Hillary Clinton]]: '[[Al Qaeda]] is on our side'.]]
Def. Sec. [[Robert Gates]] told [[NPR]]:<ref>https://www.npr.org/2014/01/11/261711869/transcript-former-defense-secretary-robert-gates-interview-with-npr</ref>
Def. Sec. [[Robert Gates]] told [[NPR]]:<ref>https://www.npr.org/2014/01/11/261711869/transcript-former-defense-secretary-robert-gates-interview-with-npr</ref>
{{Quotebox|I worked in the White House on the National Security Council staff and as deputy national security adviser for nearly nine years under four presidents. And I had certain ideas about how the national security staff and how the White House staff ought to comport themselves in discussions on national security and military issues. And let's just say that the way it worked in the Obama White House was not anything like I had seen before.<br>
{{Quotebox-float|I worked in the White House on the National Security Council staff and as deputy national security adviser for nearly nine years under four presidents. And I had certain ideas about how the national security staff and how the White House staff ought to comport themselves in discussions on national security and military issues. And let's just say that the way it worked in the Obama White House was not anything like I had seen before.<br>
I had worked for probably three of the most significant and toughest national security advisers in our history: [[Henry Kissinger]], [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] and [[Brent Scowcroft]]. And there were things that went on in the Obama White House that, under those three guys, I am confident would have been a firing offense...<br>
I had worked for probably three of the most significant and toughest national security advisers in our history: [[Henry Kissinger]], [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] and [[Brent Scowcroft]]. And there were things that went on in the Obama White House that, under those three guys, I am confident would have been a firing offense...<br>
...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:<ref>http://www.fpri.org/article/2016/10/national-security-decisions-made/</ref>
Def. Sec. [[Leon Panetta]] said:<ref>http://www.fpri.org/article/2016/10/national-security-decisions-made/</ref>
{{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...}}
{{Quotebox-float|[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...}}
Def. Sec. [[Chuck Hagel]] reiterated;
Def. Sec. [[Chuck Hagel]] reiterated;
{{Quotebox|[[Susan E. Rice|Ambassador Rice]] would often start with, ‘This is what the president wants.’ ... that’s not the way our National Security Advisor should start a meeting with the National Security Council... there were a lot of reasons those meetings kind of descended into nonsense.<br>
{{Quotebox|[[Susan E. Rice|Ambassador Rice]] would often start with, ‘This is what the president wants.’ ... that’s not the way our National Security Advisor should start a meeting with the National Security Council... there were a lot of reasons those meetings kind of descended into nonsense.<br>