Donald Trump’s National Security Council reorganization copies previous GOP president
President Trump’s reorganization of the National Security Council principals committee, and the participation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, is a duplicate of what George W. Bush did in February 2001 when he issued his NSC directive.
Rather than radical change, Mr. Trump is simply reverting to the way the last Republican president did national security business in-house, a comparison of their directives shows.
Washington is in a uproar because the Trump directive does not make the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff a “regular” member of the principals committee. The committee debates policies and is a sub-panel of the full National Security Council of which the JCS chair is a permanent member.
The Trump wording that has some former Obama officials up in arms reads:
“The Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall attend where issues pertaining to their responsibilities and expertise are to be discussed.”
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