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National Security Council (view source)
Revision as of 06:38, April 30, 2017
, 06:38, 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:
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|[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]] said:
Def. Sec. [[Chuck Hagel]] reiterated;
{{Quotebox|[[Susan E. Rice|Ambassador Rice]] would often start with, ‘This is what the president wants.’ ... that’s 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 kind of nonsense.}}
{{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 kind of nonsense.<br>
...President Obama, he’s one of the youngest presidents we’ve ever had, one of the most inexperienced presidents we’ve ever had... [He] has a staff around him that is 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 has ever run anything.<br>
...[The president] has to fundamentally understand, and I’m not sure he ever did, nor the people around him, the tremendous responsibility the United States has. Not to be the world’s policeman, but to lead, and we’re the only ones who can.}}
==See also==
==See also==