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Christopher Steele, the author of the infamous anti-Trump dossier, worked with the Obama administration’s National Security Council to cultivate Russian oligarchs as sources of intelligence about Russian President Vladimir Putin, a book by the co-founders of Fusion GPS relates.

The White House delivered a final verdict on Conan the hero dog’s gender: He’s a boy. On Tuesday, a source from the National Security Council told Breitbart News that Conan’s gender was female, prompting our report.

Yet another staffer for Rep. Adam Schiff served as a fellow for the Atlantic Council, a think tank that is funded by and works in partnership with Burisma, the natural gas company at the center of allegations regarding Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.

Democrat staffers threw an impeachment party at a Capitol Hill bar after the last public hearing concluded on Thursday evening.

Fiona Hill wrote in 2015 that she “strongly disagree[d]” with sending lethal weapons to help Ukraine. She said she changed her mind after joining the Trump administration.

Morrison said his predecessor Dr. Fiona Hill and other staff at the NSC had raised concerns about Vindman’s judgment.

Adam Schiff falsely claimed Vindman was worried Trump had broken the law. In fact, Vindman admitted his concerns were moral, ethical, and policy-based — not legal.

Tim Morrison never thought there was anything illegal, or even improper, about the call. “I want to be clear: I was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed.”

House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) “acted in concert” with Politico to leak allegedly false information from the impeachment inquiry as part of a “scheme” to advance the “inquisition” against President Donald Trump, according to an explosive defamation lawsuit filed by a senior Trump White House official on Monday.

WASHINGTON — The early years of the Trump administration were troubled by intense internal divisions on US-Israel policy, former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley writes in her new book.

Appearing Thursday on the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” conservative radio host Mark Levin slammed the alleged so-called “whistleblower” Eric Ciaramella and called the National Security Council a “rat’s nest.” 

The legal team for the “whistleblower” in a statement on Thursday declined to confirm or deny that he is likely CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella.

RealClear Investigations published the name of the person believed to be the whistleblower against President Trump: Eric Ciaramella.

For some reason, we keep hearing about Col. Vindman’s valor and patriotism. I don’t doubt that he’s a super swell guy. But unless I missed it in the newspapers at the time, I don’t believe he was elected president in 2016. In fact, there’s a specific constitutional provision that prevents Col. Vindman from ever being president: He wasn’t born here.

John Ullyot has joined the Trump administration as deputy assistant to the president and NSC senior director for strategic communications.

National Security Council (NSC) official Alexander Vindman showed up to testify Tuesday as part of the Democrats’ closed-door impeachment inquiry into President Trump in full military uniform.

Alexander Vindman’s concern for the “consensus views of the interagency” on Ukraine informed his approach to the president’s call with Zelensky.

Sondland testified that Trump told him repeatedly he wanted “nothing” from Ukraine and that there was “no quid pro quo.”

Two former National Security Council staffers that worked with the so-called whistleblower in the Obama and Trump administrations now worked for House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), according to a report. 

President Trump announced Wednesday he has chosen Robert C. O’Brien as national security adviser, replacing Ambassador John Bolton.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still deliberating what to do about regulating foreign investments in Israel amid concerns on the part of U.S. and Israeli security forces over the alarming pace of Chinese investments in Israeli infrastructure. 

Former Obama administration officials are working to stop the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign on Iran just as it is taking hold, hoping a new president in 2020 can salvage the Iran Nuclear Deal, according to officials and experts.

Gavin Williamson, Secretary of State for Defence, has been sacked by Prime Minister Theresa May after details of a National Security Council meeting in which Chinese tech giant Huawei’s potential involvement in 5G infrastructure was leaked to the press.

President Trump is ready to announce Princeton physicist and leading climate skeptic Will Happer as his senior tech adviser.

A recent tweet from President Trump’s prospective 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, was about, of all things, the 5G wireless network. Yet while the tweet didn’t have anything to do with presidential politics, it did touch upon presidential policy — and the future of our country.

The controversial leftwing hate group Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is spewing out misinformation about Fred Fleitz, National Security Adviser John Bolton’s newly named executive secretary and chief of staff of the National Security Council.

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration on Tuesday condemned the Gazan attack on Israel that began in the early hours and continued through the evening.

Former Trump White House official Ezra Cohen-Watnick is joining the Department of Justice as a national security adviser to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a source confirmed on Wednesday.

National Security Council spokesman Michael Anton was pushed out of the White House, according to multiple sources after he announced Sunday he was leaving.

Ken Blackwell and former Rep. Frank Wolf write that President Trump’s new National Security Adviser John Bolton has an opportunity to promote religious freedom and help persecuted Christians across the world. From The Hill: The vice president’s October announcement that

Sebastian Gorka, former deputy assistant to President Trump and Fox News national security strategist, said he expects Ambassador John Bolton to remove officials from the National Security Council (NSC) who do not support the president.

Amid widespread reports National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster is expected to lose his job within days, it is instructive to recall the troubling ideology and concerning connections of the man who has been serving in one of the most powerful U.S. national security positions.

Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III — perhaps the most revered icon for conservatives from the Reagan administration and one the most consequential attorneys general in American history — is praising Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his work at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

NEW YORK — H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s embattled national security adviser, has once again minimized the religious motivations of terrorist groups, this time referring to the ideology of Mideast jihadists as “irreligious.”

The Trump administration’s upcoming National Security Strategy — a document required by Congress — will be the first one to have a deep focus on economic competitiveness, particularly with China, according to a source familiar with it.

The White House and State Department issued statements on Wednesday clarifying the Trump administration’s position on talks with North Korea, following Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s unconditional offer of talks at a forum on Tuesday.