Justin Smith sent this submission to me a couple of days
ago. Sorry about waiting so long Justin. In the midst of Sebastian Gorka’s
recent resignation – whether voluntarily or purged –
this submission exposes National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster as an Obamanite
in sheep’s clothing.
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A Bitter Struggle
By Justin O. Smith
Sent 8/27/2017 5:06 PM
America cannot afford one more week, one more day or one
more minute with H.R. McMaster, as the White House National Security Advisor, when
he has manipulated every major policy issue
to move in a completely opposite direction, whether on Afghanistan, Russia
or North Korea and several other issues, from President Trump's agenda and
America's best interests. While McMaster continues to follow a mix of Bush and
Obama policy, he is in the process of purging every
single Trump loyalist, who implicitly and thoroughly understands
the current threats America faces, and he is actively placing America in harm's
way.
McMaster is targeting people, who were chosen to best
implement President Trump's policy, that he outlined during his campaign.
Anyone advocating for firing Obama holdovers is on McMaster's list to be
replaced. Others can expect to be dismissed, if they oppose the Iranian
Nuclear Deal or criticize Islam.
One of McMaster's first orders, in February, was an explicit
instruction to all staffers, who came in with President Trump. McMaster, a big leaker himself,
has ordered them not to point out that Obama
holdovers, such as senior Obama aide Ben Rhodes, were still in place and undermining
President Trump and leaking damaging classified information to the press.
In light of McMaster's refusal to do the President's
bidding, when Steve Bannon and Trump both pressed him to fire Obama holdovers,
it is hard to understand how he still holds his job. He refused to fire any
Obama holdovers on a list prepared by Derek Harvey, and he asserted that hiring
and firing National Security Council staff was under his sole authority;
however, over fifty percent of the NSC's staff are Obama holdovers, who should
have been terminated over six months ago.
Derek Harvey was a top Middle East advisor to President
Trump and a former Defense Intelligence Agency colonel, who served in country
in Afghanistan and Iraq for decades, either in uniform or the intelligence
community. He wrote a paper months before 9/11,
in which he stated that both Al Qaeda and the Taliban posed strategic threats
to the United States. He also shared President Trump's view that U.S. officials
must declare our country is at war with the
"radical jihadist agenda" and "militant Islam",
and he was fired by McMaster in March.
Ezra Cohen-Watnick, a former Defense Intelligence Agency
operations officer and an associate of former DIA Director Michael Flynn, drew
McMaster's ire, because he noted the CIA was politicized under
President Obama, and he had provided proof of Obama surveillance of
President Trump, by Obama personnel, to Intelligence Committee
Chairman Devin Nunes. He was saved once from termination, when Trump interceded
and overrode McMaster's decision to replace him with Linda Weissgold, who
helped draft the Benghazi talking points which blamed a video protest for the
Islamic terrorist attack, that murdered four Americans.
But soon, Cohen-Watnick was fired anyway, due to his "anti-Muslim
fervor" and "hard-line views". There's no room in McMaster's NSC
for anyone telling the truth about Islamic terrorism.
In May, Adam Lovinger, a Trump loyalist and national
security strategist on loan from the Pentagon, had his security clearance
revoked, and he was fired and escorted from the White House.
Lovinger, who is a seasoned strategic analyst, had done nothing wrong other
than oppose McMaster, by supporting India, rightfully so, over
Pakistan.
While President Trump has been fairly irate over his
advisor's inability to arrange the U.S. withdrawal from Obama's Iranian Nuclear
Deal, suffice it to say that McMaster supports the deal. McMaster also refuses
to publish the side deals Obama made with Iran and hid from the American
people, which largely led to Richard Higgins' termination in July.
As Daniel Greenfield explains in several Front Page
articles, Richard Higgins was a top NSC official, who advocated for the declassification of all
documents pertaining to radical Islam and Iran, but he was
specifically focused on declassifying Obama's 2010 Presidential Study Directive
11, which outlined the Arab Spring [Winter] and provided a security
assessment on a chaotic Middle East. This PSD-11 is seen by many former
national security officials, such as former Assistant Secretary of Defense
Frank Gaffney, as the evidence and blue-print of President Obama's close ties
to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamofascist groups.
Pete Hoekstra, the former Chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee, has also called for the declassification of PSD-11. He links it to
the rise of the Islamic State.
Higgins was fired, after he presented the argument that
President Trump is under a sustained attack from subversive forces within and
outside the government, who are using every and any tactic possible to defeat
the President's nationalist agenda. Janas Winter and Elias Groll posted Higgins
memo on August 10th in Foreign Policy that read:
"Globalists and Islamists recognize that
for their vision to succeed, America, both as an idea and as a national and
political identity, must be destroyed" ... arguing further that this has
led "Islamists [to] ally with cultural Marxists", but over time,
"Islamists will co-opt the movement in its entirety." [Blog
Editor: See entire PDF]
John Guandolo, a former FBI agent, has been heavily involved
in the investigation of the domestic Islamic threat. He has worked tirelessly
to bring awareness of the threat of Islamic terrorism, through his organization
Understanding the Threat. He now warns that McMaster's termination of
Higgins undermines our ability to fight Islamic terrorism, and McMaster is unfit to for duty, because he "is
standing in the enemy camp" and refusing to fire Obama holdovers
who are clearly statists and Marxist, who are pushing an agenda that is counter
to the facts and counter to the national security interests of the United
States.
[Blog Editor: Here is the
Guandolo interview Justin Smith references:
Blog Editor End]
McMaster also forced K.T. McFarland to leave her position as
Deputy National Security Advisor, and she was replaced by Dina Habib-Powell.
McFarland is one of the brightest minds and one of the most qualified and
capable in the intelligence community. Habib-Powell, an Egyptian immigrant, has
no national security experience and claims Uma Abedin and Valerie Jarrett for
friends. McFarland was most likely replaced, because she had
written "Global Islamist jihad is at war with all of
Western civilization".
One should also note, McMaster is deeply hostile to Israel
and Trump, while President Trump and his loyalists are pro-Israel. McMaster consistently calls Israel
"the occupying power", according to senior officials. He
also advances the false narrative that a country named "Palestine"
existed prior to 1948.
Adding insult to injury, McMaster has also extended unfettered top-secret security clearance to
the immoral, anti-American former National Security Advisor Susan Rice.
Despicably, McMaster went so far as to defend Susan
'Benghazi' Rice's illegal unmasking of Trump and his private team
of advisors, during the 2016 campaign.
McMaster fails to see that Islam is inherently violent
throughout its core doctrines. He prefers the politically correct narrative
that jihadists are perverting Islam. And whether it's this issue or China,
NATO, Russia, North Korea, Syria or Afghanistan, he countermands President
Trump far too often for comfort. McMaster's views are extremely dangerous for
America and he must be fired.
America is witnessing a bitter struggle for the future of
American foreign policy, and this policy must not align with Obama cronies and
"deep state" operator's status quo decisions. This policy must not be
made by H.R. McMaster, who placed Israel-hating, pro-Hamas Kris Bauman on the
Israel-Palestinian desk, and President Trump must immediately recall Stephen
Bannon and Dr. Sebastian Gorka and all his other recently purged loyalists, if
his policies are to be properly executed and successful regarding the most
critical issues of the day. An American foreign policy without McMaster, his
disruptive and duplicitous influence, is the only path Trump can choose to
ensure a national security policy that actually keeps America safe.
By Justin O. Smith
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Edited by John R. Houk
Any text enclosed by brackets are by the Editor.
Source links are by Justin Smith primarily with added sources by
the Editor.
© Justin O. Smith
