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McMaster Fires Top Intelligence Official From National Security Council
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National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster has sacked yet another member of the National Security Council today, with the White House announcing that the senior director for intelligence programs Ezra Cohen-Watnick has been removed from his position, with the requisite praising of his past service.
McMaster has had problems with Cohen-Watnick for awhile, trying to fire him back in March amid mounting complaints from CIA officials who didn’t like working with him.
Cohen-Watnick was close with Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner, and Trump overruled McMaster on that last firing attempt.
Cohen-Watnick was close with Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner, and Trump overruled McMaster on that last firing attempt.
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Cohen-Watnick had been a favored aide to McMaster’s predecessor, Michael Flynn, and like other recently sidelined council members was a major hawk on Iran, having advocated using the US intelligence community to impose regime change.