Are Flynn And Bannon Taking Over The National Security Council? Be Afraid - Be Very Afraid

Further down, I've copied an earlier post of mine, entitled "Fake News? Let's Hope So!" Unfortunately, one of Trump's latest executive orders may be a step in this dangerous direction. it's elevated the odious Nazi sympathizer Steve Bannon to a position of outrageous power, as a member of the National Security Council's "principals committee," the real inner circle -- including the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense, as well as the National Security Adviser, the nutball Michael Flynn -- but sometimes not even the Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff! (Update: The weakling Reince Priebus, too, is to be a member of the principals committee, further politicizing the national security apparatus.)

Click here for Karoli Kuns' take on it at Crooks & Liars.

Susan Rice has tweeted that this situation is "stone cold crazy."

Click here for an article in The Washington Post by David J. Rothkopf, entitled "The danger of Steve Bannon on the National Security Council." The article says: "David J. Rothkopf is chief executive and editor of the FP Group, which publishes Foreign Policy magazine. He has written two histories of the NSC, 'Running the World' and last year’s 'National Insecurity.'"

This is a huge, scary red flag. Watch this space.

UPDATED: Click here for an article at Daily Kos entitled "Trump removes DNI and Chairman of Joint Chiefs from National Security Council; adds Bannon, Priebus."

If Trump wants to start a war, it’s hard to imagine a better first move than this one. All decisions on national security will now be made by political operatives, while career professionals in the intelligence and military communities have been deliberately excluded from the process. Every single member of the NSC PC is now political; there are no career professionals left.

Fake News? Let's Hope So!

Click here for an earlier post of mine, entitled "Wingnut Flynn - Updated." Since that was posted, Flynn has continued on his merry nutball way, most recently contacting the Russian ambassador to the U.S. multiple times on the same day Obama was announcing sanctions against Russia.

Click here for an article by Digby at Hullabaloo entitiled "Let's hope this is fake news." Michael Flynn Jr. -- apparently a worse alt-right conspiracy theorist than his nutty old man -- "... tweeted out a story published on Voltaire Network entitled “General Flynn’s Proposals to Reform Intelligence.” He tells of a plan afoot to abolish the position of Director of National Intelligence -- currently held by James Clapper, who, together with Michael Vickers, the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, forced Flynn out as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency -- and to make all 16 intelligence agencies responsible to a different official.

That official? The National Security Adviser, a person not subject to Senate confirmation. The official presently holding that position? Michael Flynn, Sr.

Jesus wept.