A front-runner for the top White House intelligence job may be planning to run cover for the IC, sources say
Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail to make war against the deep state. Now it seems the first battle may take place on home ground: the White House.
Congressional and intelligence sources tell Tablet that the candidate slotted in for the top intelligence spot on the National Security Council is ill suited to serve the president’s agenda. Adam Howard, reportedly the front-runner for the NSC’s senior director for intelligence, is currently staff director for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), chaired by Republican Congressman Mike Turner. According to several current congressional sources, multiple House members have raised concern over an alleged boast made by Turner on Capitol Hill that he’s “taking over Trump’s IC [Intelligence Community].” Presumably, Howard is meant to be his instrument.
On Sunday, Joshua Steinman, an NSC official from the first Trump administration, posted a long thread on X reporting that the current NSC is being staffed with holdovers from the Joe Biden administration and others unlikely to serve Trump’s agenda, including Howard, whose intelligence experience is limited to the two years he’s served as HPSCI staff director. Biden’s senior director for intelligence is Maher Bitar, an anti-Israel activist once affiliated with the Students for Justice in Palestine. Bitar also came from HPSCI, where he worked under then-Congressman now-Sen. Adam Schiff, one of Trump’s most vocal opponents on Capitol Hill.
“Without an operational intelligence background, you can’t clean up the mess made by the current [Biden] team,” wrote Steinman.
The NSC’s senior director for intelligence is the president’s interlocutor with the 18 intelligence agencies that make up the IC and ensures that the president’s initiatives are being fulfilled. The senior director administrates all covert action programs on behalf of the president and controls all classified information flow to and from the White House, most significantly the Presidential Daily Brief. He also has IC-wide oversight responsibility.
And yet, say congressional sources, Turner and his deputy Howard have over the past year neglected their constitutionally mandated oversight duties and instead covered for the IC. The sources say that they have impeded efforts to investigate anything that might have embarrassed Biden administration intelligence officials. When reached by Tablet, an HPSCI spokesman declined to comment for the record.
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Tabletmag is hardcore jewish, but this article, and I studied it in depth, followed all the links, woke me up to the Covid scam, and it was something I passed around for the sceptics, although they never read it and wore their masks and got their death sentence shots:
I wonder what Tablet is all about, it has high quality articles, but it's run by Jews. Do they have a special audience? It's not quoted often, although their material is well researched and sound most of the time. Search e.g. for Covid on the site, it's a knowledgebase of red pill material. Strange.
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I have to say, Gettin' real tired of this bullshit.
Tabletmag is hardcore jewish, but this article, and I studied it in depth, followed all the links, woke me up to the Covid scam, and it was something I passed around for the sceptics, although they never read it and wore their masks and got their death sentence shots:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-covid-lockdown-propaganda
I wonder what Tablet is all about, it has high quality articles, but it's run by Jews. Do they have a special audience? It's not quoted often, although their material is well researched and sound most of the time. Search e.g. for Covid on the site, it's a knowledgebase of red pill material. Strange.