National Security Council

WASHINGTON — Dr. Sebastian Gorka, the White House’s Senior Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council and a Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump, took Breitbart News viewers inside both the Oval Office and the White House Situation Room with exclusive inside details of President Trump’s decision to eliminate an ISIS terrorism less than two weeks into his second term as president.

President Donald Trump fired six National Security Council officials a day after independent journalist and activist Laura Loomer met with him and presented him with a list of staffers who should be fired.

President Donald Trump revealed Tuesday that a National Security Council staffer and aide to National Security Adviser Mike Waltz added the Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat on military strikes against the Houthis.

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council in the White House, told Breitbart News exclusively that the White House intends to release the video of the successful operation conducted on Saturday morning to eliminate a top Islamic State terrorist in northern Somalia.

Alexander Vindman criticized incoming National Security Adviser Mike Waltz’s plan to clear the National Security Council of deep staters.

Incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz told Breitbart News exclusively that every intelligence NSC official under outgoing President Joe Biden will be expected to vacate the premises by 12:01 p.m. Eastern on Inauguration Day.

The Biden administration on Tuesday urged India to take Canadian allegations of an assassination plot against Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar seriously and cooperate with Canadian investigators.

The White House said on Wednesday that additional U.S. airstrikes against the Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen destroyed at least four anti-ship missiles the Houthis were preparing to launch at ships in the Red Sea.

The FBI is reportedly investigating a human smuggling network that is helping move Uzbek migrants across the border into the United States. At least one of the smugglers is reportedly connected to the ISIS terrorist organization.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday claimed the allegedly leaked classified documents from the Pentagon “clearly show that the US has long used its tech edge to conduct indiscriminate secret theft, surveillance and eavesdropping on countries in the world, including its allies.”

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry says the tensions between the United States and China are hurting the talks he was having on the climate.

The White House on Thursday accused Iran of sending troops to assist the Russian invasion of Ukraine, by teaching the Russians how to pilot drones they purchased from Tehran.

Democrat Matt Castelli, a former CIA Agent running for Congress in New York, reportedly drank alcohol on the clock and had sex with multiple colleagues in a White House office.

A State Department source said the NSC directed the cutting of a feed of a Taiwanese official who showed a map of Taiwan separate from China.

Evacuees from Afghanistan who fail U.S. checks on their bona fides might face repatriation back to their homeland, three officials familiar with the matter have claimed.

A Business Insider article touting an opinion from a Trump-Pence administration adviser that former President Donald Trump’s Afghanistan policy set the stage for disaster omits that the adviser was a holdover from the Obama-Biden administration.

The Taiwanese government on Thursday delicately objected to the Biden White House deleting a social media post touting America’s donation of coronavirus vaccines to Taiwan, apparently because the message included an image of the Taiwanese flag. The Chinese Communist government is enraged by written or visual messages that imply Taiwan is an independent country.

Three Republican members lawmakers demanded Wednesday that the U.S. Department of State’s inspector general investigate John Kerry.

The brother of impeachment witness Alex Vindman, announced the Army has been promoted to colonel despite being fired from the White House.

A White House staffer leading President Joe Biden’s policy towards Asia previously founded a think tank that had strong links to the Chinese communist regime.

“The Biden administration will confront this threat with the necessary recourses and resolve,” she said.

An executive with the United Nations Refugee Agency, which lobbies nations to accept mass migration, is expected to join President-elect Joe Biden’s administration.  

A former member of the National Security Council told The Kyle Olson Show that Iran prefers to have Joe Biden in the White House next year.

The U.S. government has asked a federal judge in Washington to seize the $2 million book advance and any royalties paid to John Bolton.

Ezra Cohen-Watnick, a defense intelligence veteran and former Trump National Security Council aide, is headed back to the Pentagon to serve as deputy assistant secretary of defense for counternarcotics and global threats.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that if Israel’s infection rates and critical COVID-19 cases continue to stabilize, the country would begin to phase out of lockdown after the Passover holiday which ends on Wednesday evening. 

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro warned in a late January memo the coronavirus could cost the United States trillions without a travel ban on China.

Tim Morrison, the former senior National Security Council (NSC) official who was a witness in the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment inquiry, published an op-ed Monday in the Washington Post disputing reports that the White House had “dissolved” the pandemic unit.

Fact check – CLAIM: President Donald Trump “fired the entire White House pandemic team.” VERDICT: Partly false. Former National Security Advisor John Bolton “dissolved” the pandemic office but staff remained to deal with the issue.

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) said on Thursday during the CPAC conference that Congress should be ashamed if they reauthorized FISA without significant reform.

Trump’s firing of John Rood is a sign that the Pentagon will not be immune from an effort to purge Never Trumpers from the administration.

President Trump has made quite a few changes to the administration since his February 5 acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial.

Deputy National Security Adviser Victoria Coates is leaving the NSC to become a senior adviser to Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette.

The National Security Council (NSC) is on track to reach its policy staff reduction goal and may cut even more than originally planned, according to the agency’s spokesman.

Trump administration officials are discussing reassigning a top NSC official to the Energy Department, amid speculation she is “anonymous.”

The Army’s top civilian leader, Ryan McCarthy, said Friday that the service is not investigating Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.