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1. Brian
   March 16th, 2017 @ 9:07 am

   Good News –

   Secretary of Defense General Mattis has withdrawn his choice for the top civilian position in the Defense Department, Anne Patterson, after she was criticized from multiple angles, chiefly because of her coziness with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.

   Had Mattis had his way, Patterson would have become the Defense Department’s undersecretary of defense for policy; the top civilian job and the fourth highest official. But the question remains: Why pick her in the first place?

   This isn’t the only issue with staffing that could lead to internal rivalries and undermining of Trump’s central policies.

   Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, who is described as an “architect of the Iran deal,” is still in a senior position overseeing U.S. policy towards Iran.

   In February, about 100 Iranian activists opposed to the regime requested congressional investigations into Iranian political influence operations in America, including NIAC.

   We don’t know for sure, but perhaps that has something to do with why President Trump strangely omitted any mention of the nuclear deal with Iran from his first Joint Address to Congress. The administration’s initial move towards designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps as a Foreign Terrorist Organization is also reportedly in “limbo.”

   In addition, President Trump’s choice of National Security Advisor, General H.R. McMaster, immediately contradicted the core foundation of the Trump Administration’s policy by telling the National Security Council staff that it is wrong to define the enemy as “radical Islam.” – It seemed inconceivable that President Trump would pick someone so at odds with a core foundation of his policy and that such a person would agree to the appointment and immediately undermine the policy he was chosen to implement.

   The good news in the case of Patterson is that the pressure worked and she was dropped. But two questions still remain:

   Why was she chosen in the first place?

   And how difficult will it be to implement significant policy changes with hostile holdovers from the previous administration still in place.

   It’s time for Trump to “drain the swamp.”

   Ryan Mauro –
   https://clarionproject.org/gen-mattis-withdraws-pro-brotherhood-pick/

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