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MALCOLM NANCE: If Gen McMaster couldn't get Cohen-Watnick out-Then guy is buried in there for Reason (Original Post) kpete Apr 2017 OP
The same Cohen-Watnick who gave Nunes the information @ the White House. Botany Apr 2017 #1
Yep, Maxine nailed it! SunSeeker Apr 2017 #10
K&R for this whole thread, and especially this graphic. nt appal_jack Apr 2017 #28
The reason: kentuck Apr 2017 #2
Interesting... Cracklin Charlie Apr 2017 #3
That's my sense. He is able to use the access the position provides to serve Flynn and Trump... FreepFryer Apr 2017 #4
Certainly has that smell to it... Wounded Bear Apr 2017 #6
Parents bought Trump Tower condo and one did PR for BadgerMom Apr 2017 #18
ECW is only around 30 years old Mr. Ected Apr 2017 #5
Scoff he did. He was polite... 3catwoman3 Apr 2017 #8
And yet he is still there. Adrahil Apr 2017 #23
McMaster tried to get rid of him, but couldn't LastLiberal in PalmSprings Apr 2017 #25
Right. The question of whether his placement was based on the Putin model Enoki33 Apr 2017 #9
Anything Malcolm Nance says - take seriously. calimary Apr 2017 #15
Deep Doo Doo Achilleaze Apr 2017 #7
With trumps penchant for winning at any cost Turbineguy Apr 2017 #11
Kick Hekate Apr 2017 #12
Of course he is Roy Rolling Apr 2017 #13
like the old Soviet political officer-- lastlib Apr 2017 #29
k&r UCmeNdc Apr 2017 #14
Like a tick... Time to put a match to it. TheBlackAdder Apr 2017 #16
McMaster wanted him gone canetoad Apr 2017 #17
I think I would resign if I were McMaster. If I can't hire my staff, then forget it. SharonAnn Apr 2017 #20
Says it all, people are inserted as political spies. Abuse of power, impeachable offense. L. Coyote Apr 2017 #19
They call him "the Commissar". Because that's exactly what he is (nt) Recursion Apr 2017 #21
Meet Ezra Cohen-Watnick, The Secret Source At The Center Of Trump Russia Probe csziggy Apr 2017 #22
great post - great insight BadGimp Apr 2017 #24
Bannon not Trump benld74 Apr 2017 #26
while Donnie and Bannon project about the deep state.... Thomas Hurt Apr 2017 #27

Botany

(70,510 posts)
1. The same Cohen-Watnick who gave Nunes the information @ the White House.
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 10:38 AM
Apr 2017

Just how deep and how wide is the rot of "Trump's Kremlin Clan?"*


* Credit for the Trump's Kremlin Clan meme to Maxine Waters.

kentuck

(111,098 posts)
2. The reason:
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 10:42 AM
Apr 2017

He could be the liaison between Donald Trump and General Flynn? Flynn may be gone but still advising Donald? They could have conspired together to come up with this "immunity" plot, for whatever reason?

FreepFryer

(7,077 posts)
4. That's my sense. He is able to use the access the position provides to serve Flynn and Trump...
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 10:57 AM
Apr 2017

McMaster isn't an inside loyalist, they wouldn't let him pick his own NSC Dir Intel.

Wounded Bear

(58,662 posts)
6. Certainly has that smell to it...
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 11:01 AM
Apr 2017

He's too young to be a real Russia connection IMO.

Play six degrees of separation with the Trump cabal and you hit the Russian border at stage 3, or sooner.

BadgerMom

(2,771 posts)
18. Parents bought Trump Tower condo and one did PR for
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 12:53 PM
Apr 2017

Russian company linked back to one of Trump's henchmen (Manafort?). I apologize. I read it last night on a Twitter link that is reliable, but I fell asleep right after. I'll try to find it. I remember being impressed that people had lost no time investigating him.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
5. ECW is only around 30 years old
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 11:00 AM
Apr 2017

The other night, Malcolm Nance scoffed at the notion that he had enough experience and seniority to quality for that WH post.

He's a plant. He's a mole. He's another one of Trump's goons, unqualified and there solely to protect Trump from his laundry list of crimes.

 

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)
23. And yet he is still there.
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 01:26 PM
Apr 2017

I believe McMaster thinks he is doing his duty, but at some point, he can do greater service by rejecting this bufoon and his shitty coterie.

25. McMaster tried to get rid of him, but couldn't
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 10:59 PM
Apr 2017

This after he was promised complete, unfettered control of his department.

Enoki33

(1,587 posts)
9. Right. The question of whether his placement was based on the Putin model
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 11:31 AM
Apr 2017

is not hyperbole. Can't quite believe it is necessary to say that.

calimary

(81,297 posts)
15. Anything Malcolm Nance says - take seriously.
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 12:44 PM
Apr 2017

He's one of the most credible voices in the "commentariat" these days.

If I were president I think I'd want him on my National Security team - if not its top-ranking member. He knows his stuff.

UNLIKE green kids such as that young Ezra boy. Yep. They wanted to keep him there for a reason. For their "eyes and ears" maybe? To keep tabs on the other staffers? To listen in on their lunch-room chit-chat? Monitor the gossip for dissenters - or people starting to have second thoughts or starting to fall away?

Whatever the case, considering this bunch, I'd expect the worst.

Turbineguy

(37,337 posts)
11. With trumps penchant for winning at any cost
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 12:09 PM
Apr 2017

what are the chances he has nothing to fear?

At the very least it was, "I don't wanna know...!"

Roy Rolling

(6,917 posts)
13. Of course he is
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 12:29 PM
Apr 2017

His talent is being a spy on the people within the government disloyal to the fuher. No one would expect a neophyte, but a neophyte also does stupid shit like burning down the house. This whole administration is staffed with incompetents.

lastlib

(23,239 posts)
29. like the old Soviet political officer--
Sun Apr 2, 2017, 08:35 AM
Apr 2017

placed there to ensure that everybody toes the party line....

canetoad

(17,164 posts)
17. McMaster wanted him gone
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 12:52 PM
Apr 2017

Kushner and Bannon intervened. He is apparently tight with Kushner.

Also, what 30 year old doesn't have a face pic somewhere on the net?

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
19. Says it all, people are inserted as political spies. Abuse of power, impeachable offense.
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 12:58 PM
Apr 2017

But hey, who's counting impeachable offenses anymore!

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
22. Meet Ezra Cohen-Watnick, The Secret Source At The Center Of Trump Russia Probe
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 01:22 PM
Apr 2017
Meet Ezra Cohen-Watnick, The Secret Source At The Center Of Trump Russia Probe
By Nathan Guttman
March 30, 2017

<SNIP>

He attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 2008. Cohen-Watnick began working as an intelligence analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency after college. At the DIA, Cohen-Watnick met Flynn, the then-director who was later removed from his position during the Obama administration.

After Trump won the November election, Flynn brought Cohen-Watnick from the DIA to the Trump transition team, where the young staffer, according to The Washington Post, was among the few Trump advisers to hold a top security clearance. He participated in high-level intelligence briefings and briefed Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and their team on national security issues.

When Flynn was appointed to lead the National Security Council, he hired Cohen-Watnick to work with him there. But Flynn served as national security adviser for less than a month before being asked to leave following revelations that he had maintained ties with Russia during the campaign.

Flynn’s successor, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, sought to remove Cohen-Watnick from the team, following input from the CIA director who pointed to problems intelligence officers had when dealing with Cohen-Watnick. Questions were raised about his ability to carry out the position of senior NSC director for intelligence programs, who oversees ties with intelligence agencies and vets information that should reach the president’s desk.

Read more: http://forward.com/news/367690/meet-ezra-cohen-watnick-the-secret-source-at-the-center-of-trump-russia-pro/

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
27. while Donnie and Bannon project about the deep state....
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 11:06 PM
Apr 2017

they are planting apparatchiks in the agencies to stooge for Trump.

alt righters and other fascist true believers scattered here and there.

Then some of the agencies they of course have gutted to centralize the power to the WH and cabinet.

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