Senior director Ezra Cohen-Watnick out at National Security Council

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

The senior director for intelligence on the National Security Council left the agency, the White House confirmed Wednesday.

A White House official said Ezra Cohen-Watnick, who was hired during the brief tenure of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, “has left the National Security Council [NSC].”"[National Security Advisor] Gen. McMaster appreciates the good work accomplished in the NSC's Intelligence directorate under Ezra Cohen's leadership,” a White House official said.

“He has determined that, at this time, a different set of experiences is best-suited to carrying that work forward," the official continued. "Gen. McMaster is confident that Ezra will make many further significant contributions to national security in another position in the administration."

Cohen-Watnick's departure is the latest in a string of exits from the National Security Council under H.R. McMaster, who has reportedly sought to purge Flynn appointees. 

Another Flynn hire, retired Army intelligence officer Derek Harvey, was ousted from the NSC last week. He had been working as a senior Middle East adviser.

Cohen-Watnick's removal is the second significant personnel change at the White House since Retired Gen. John Kelly took over as chief of staff.

A few hours after Kelly was sworn in on Monday, the White House announced the departure of Anthony Scaramucci as communications director.     

 

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/345042-ezra-cohen-watnick-out-at-nsc#.WYJNsaJUDwt.twitter

Edited August 2, 2017 by Il Mango Dulce

[smilesammich 10,727]

sorry, i dont know who this ezra person is but if you want to generate any sort of convo up in cehst, best to start a thread about al gore, michael moore, hillary, criminals (only if illegal or muslim), single payer health ins (socialism, anything venezuela or chavez related will do) and/or anything racist ol Jeff sessions might be up to. trump forever and ever, amen.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

4 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

sorry, i dont know who this ezra person is but if you want to generate any sort of convo up in cehst, best to start a thread about al gore, michael moore, hillary, criminals (only if illegal or muslim), single payer health ins (socialism, anything venezuela or chavez related will do) and/or anything racist ol Jeff sessions might be up to. trump forever and ever, amen.

The Man McMaster Couldn't Fire

Thirty-one-year-old Ezra Cohen-Watnick holds the intelligence portfolio on the National Security Council—but almost everything about him is a mystery.

Patricia Hofmeester / Julia Luzgareva / Shutterstock / Defense Intelligence Agency / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic

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Just 24 days into his tenure as Donald Trump’s national-security adviser, Michael Flynn was forced to resign, having reportedly misled Vice President Mike Pence about his contacts with Russian officials. When Flynn departed, the men and women he’d appointed to the National Security Council grew nervous about their own jobs, and with good reason. The new national-security adviser, General H.R. McMaster, promptly began clearing out Flynn’s people, among them Dave Cattler, the deputy assistant to the president for regional affairs, Adam Lovinger, a strategic affairs analyst on loan from the Pentagon, and KT McFarland, Flynn’s deputy, who was eased out with the ambassadorship to Singapore. Even Steve Bannon, among the most powerful people in the White House, was removed from the meetings of the NSC Principal’s Committee, where he had been installed early on in the administration.

There was one person, however, who McMaster couldn’t get rid of: Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence programs. McMaster tried to remove him in March, but President Trump, at the urging of Bannon and Jared Kushner, told McMaster that Cohen-Watnick was staying, as first reported by Politico. According to a senior White House official, the two men had a sit-down meeting the following week in which McMaster acknowledged that he hadn’t been able to do what he wanted to do, and that they would keep things as they are and “see how they go for a while.” That was over four months ago. That Cohen-Watnick, 31 years old and largely unknown before entering the administration, has become unfireable reveals how important he has become to the Trump White House, where loyalty is prized.

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/ezra-cohen-watnick/534615/

Edited August 3, 2017 by Il Mango Dulce

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

5 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

sorry, i dont know who this ezra person is but if you want to generate any sort of convo up in cehst, best to start a thread about al gore, michael moore, hillary, criminals (only if illegal or muslim), single payer health ins (socialism, anything venezuela or chavez related will do) and/or anything racist ol Jeff sessions might be up to. trump forever and ever, amen.

this should be high on the list because it proves the deep state is winning 

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23 minutes ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

this should be high on the list because it proves the deep state is winning 

covfefe!