White House starts reconstructing National Security Council Top officials of the colleagues believe that after taking out six people earlier this month, President Trump’s agenda has been stackedly aligned, several sources familiar with the case told CBS News.
According to sources, a military intelligence analyst and retired US Army Colonel Derek Harvey is expected to be nominated for senior director for intelligence.
“Always, we are letting people go,” Mr. Trump told reporters about the firing of colleagues National Security Advisor Mike Waltz In view of Signal group chat dispute“Those people whom we do not like, or those who do not think we can work, or people who may be loyal to someone else.”
Heavy would replace Brian Walsh, one of the four senior directors on 3 April. In all, six colleagues were pushed out.
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An Air Force veteran, retired lieutenant Colonel Michael Jensen is also likely to join the NSC, one of the sources said. Jensen was nominated in February as the Pentagon’s top job as the Defense Secretary for special operations and low intensity conflicts. Senior officials have recently discussed exploiting him as a senior director of Waltz for Western Hemisphere Affairs.
That situation has been canceled.
Harvey was dropped from NSC during Mr. Trump’s first term-National Security Advisor HR McMaster At the difference in vision. At that time Harvey saw the matters of the Middle East.
Harvey later worked as an ally of a Congress for former rape Devin Nuns, then the top Republican at the House Intelligence Committee. He was earlier a senior officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, and served as an advisor to retired General David Petrayas, the then commander of the US Central Command, and the retired Army General Jack Keen, Vice President of the former Army.
House Democrats released phone messages Which included harvey During Mr. Trump’s first impeachment test, which focused on the alleged plan to carry forward his political possibilities to Ukraine in 2020, the then vice -president Joe Biden.
Harvey was a vocal trump defender during the impeachment interrogation.
