The National Security Council needs to be reformed—now. https://t.co/g6f0FRpWvn
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) May 25, 2016
...Under President Obama, the National Security Council is a far cry from the advisory body envisioned in 1947 when President Truman, hired three people to counsel him on foreign affairs.
It at times circumvents the State Department as well as even the Department of Defense.
The National Security Council today, under National Security Advisor Susan Rice, is some 400 people strong, politicized, powerful, and controlling. It at times circumvents the State Department as well as even the Department of Defense....