WHEN READING THIS ESSAY, NOTE THE MUSICAL-CHAIRS THAT HAVE OCCURRED AMONG THE PLAYERS,

RECALLING THAT “PERSONNEL IS POLICY”; THEN NOTE THE ANNOTATIONS THAT FOLLOW, DEPICTING
THE CURRENT STATUS OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THIS EARLY SNAPSHOT OF THE INNARDS OF “1600.”

THIS MUST BE READ IN ITS ENTIRETY TO APPRECIATE THE LONGITUDINAL IMPACT THEREOF, FOR THE
SUBSEQUENT INFORMATION DOVETAILS WITH WORRIMENT: THE DONALD MUST RETURN TO THE
ASSERTIVENESS THAT HAD ANIMATED HIS PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND HIS MAGA/KAG INITIATIVES.

THE URGENCY OF WHAT NOW MUST BE CONFRONTED—PRE-ELECTION—HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED, ALBEIT

FEW HAVE PROPOSED A POTENTIALLY EFFECTIVE REMEDY [PARTICULARLY WHEN NOTING “BOLTON”];
IRONICALLY, HE MUST APPRECIATE BENEFITS OF EMERGENCE OF ALL OPPONENTS FEELING THREATENED.

EVERYTHING ELSE IS DERIVATIVE OF THIS OBSERVATION, FOR HE NEEDS TO CORRAL THE INPUT OF THE
QUALITY/COMMITTED/EDUCATED/MOTIVATED PEOPLE WHO WERE PREMATURELY DISCHARGED; HERE,
NOTING THE POTENCY OF SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE (E.G., RIC GRENELL) SPEAKS VOLUMES AS TO THE TASK.

REMEDIES CAN BE DEDUCED FROM PONDERING ADVICE FROM PEOPLE SUCH AS VICTOR DAVIS HANSON,
BOTH LOYAL/ERUDITE; ALL TWEETS MUST BE RUN PAST KELLYANN CONWAY, AND HE MUST ENSURE
BOTH HIS BASE AND INDIES APPRECIATE A CONSTITUTIONALLY-MANDATED FOCUS ON LAW-AND-ORDER.

TO SIMPLIFY, THE “GOOD GUYS” ARE RELATED TO THE SECURITY STUDIES GROUP AND STEPHEN K.
BANNON’S PANDEMIC WAR-ROOM, WHILE THE “BAD GUYS” ARE McMASTER ASSOCIATES; RESONATING
IS THE ACCURACY OF THE MEMO THAT PROVOKED THE FIRING, FOR IT “OUTED” THE DEEP STATE.

THIS DOVETAILS WITH “DEEP-STATE – 2020” REGARDING THE NECESSARY ACTION-ITEMS; TIME TICKS
AND THE DONALD HAS THE CAPACITY TO REBOUND [E.G., BY IGNORING THE SCOTUS DECISIONS], FOR
THE “BASE” REMAINS LOYAL/MOTIVATED AND THE “INDIES” MUST BE SWAYED BY MORE THAN DEBATES.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/a-national-security-council-staffer-is-forced-out-
over-a-controversial-memo/535725/

An NSC Staffer Is Forced Out Over a Controversial Memo

The document charges that globalists, Islamists, and other forces within and outside the government
{A.K.A. THE DEEP STATE} are subverting President Trump’s agenda.

By ROSIE GRAY - AUGUST 2, 2017

A top official of the National Security Council was fired last month after arguing in a memo that President
Trump is under sustained attack from subversive forces both within and outside the government who are
deploying Maoist tactics to defeat President Trump’s nationalist agenda.
His dismissal marks the latest victory by National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster in the ongoing war
within Trump’s White House between those who believe that the president is under threat from dark
forces plotting to undermine him, and those like McMaster who dismiss this as conspiratorial thinking.
Rich Higgins, a former Pentagon official who served in the NSC’s strategic-planning office as a director for
strategic planning, was let go on July 21. Higgins’s memo describes supposed domestic and international
threats to Trump’s presidency, including globalists, bankers, the “deep state,” and Islamists. The memo
characterizes the Russia story as a plot to sabotage Trump’s nationalist agenda. It asserts that globalists
and Islamists are seeking to destroy America. The memo also includes a set of recommendations, arguing
that the problem constitutes a national-security priority.
“Globalists and Islamists recognize that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a
national and political identity, must be destroyed,” the memo warns. It argues that this has led “Islamists
[to] ally with cultural Marxists,” but that in the long run, “Islamists will co-opt the movement in its
entirety.”
Higgins wrote the memo in late May, and at some point afterwards it began circulating among people
outside the White House associated with the Trump campaign to whom Higgins had given it.
Higgins, according to another source with direct knowledge of the incident, was called into the White
House Counsel’s office the week before last and asked about the memo. On July 21, the Friday of that
week, he was informed by McMaster’s deputy Ricky Waddell that he was losing his job.
NSC spokesman Michael Anton declined to comment on Higgins’s firing, saying that the White House does
not comment on internal personnel matters.
“In Maoist insurgencies, the formation of a counter-state is essential to seizing state power,” the memo
reads. “Functioning as a hostile complete state acting within an existing state, it has an alternate
infrastructure. Political warfare operates as one of the activities of the ‘counter-state.’” I was able to
review large portions of the memo, and to secure extracts for publication.
“Because the left is aligned with Islamist organizations at local, national, and international levels,
recognition should be given to the fact that they seamlessly interoperate through coordinated
synchronized interactive narratives … These attack narratives are pervasive, full spectrum, and
institutionalized at all levels. They operate in social media, television, the 24-hour news cycle in all media
and are entrenched at the upper levels of the bureaucracies.”
Sources offered conflicting accounts of how the memo came to McMaster’s attention. Several sources
with knowledge of the events said they believed the memo made its way to Trump’s desk, a version that
others disputed.
Higgins’s bosses at the NSC were not pleased with the memo, sources say, the creation of which was not
part of Higgins’s job. Higgins, seen as an ally of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, had only served
on the council for a couple months.
Higgins had also “pushed for declassification of documents having to do with radical Islam and Iran,”
according to a source close to the White House. A source close to Higgins said that specifically, Higgins
had been pushing for the declassification of Presidential Study Directive 11, a classified report produced
in 2010 by the Obama administration which presaged the Arab Spring, outlining unrest throughout the
Middle East. The directive has become a shibboleth of activists such as Frank Gaffney, who see it as
evidence of the Obama administration’s links to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups.
Higgins’s past writings focus on similar themes. “National Security officials are prohibited from developing
a factual understanding of Islamic threat doctrines, preferring instead to depend upon 5th column Muslim
Brotherhood cultural advisors,” he wrote in September. Higgins gave an interview to the Daily Caller News
Foundation last year that outlines many of the same ideas laid out in the memo.
Since Higgins’s removal, there have been further changes inside the council. McMaster fired Derek
Harvey, the senior director for the Middle East, last week. Also a Bannon ally, Harvey had a difficult
relationship with his staff. Though Harvey sent a note over the weekend to contacts and friends sharing
his personal contact information and previously confirmed his departure from the council in a statement,
he may get another job within the administration. Higgins appears to have been afforded less of a soft
landing.
In recent months, the conservative media have increasingly focused on the idea that a “deep state” or
“holdovers” from the past administration are working against Trump from inside the government. Earlier
this year, Harvey was reported to have produced a list of such holdovers on the NSC whom McMaster
declined to fire, though an administration official familiar with the matter told me Harvey had not
compiled the list.
McMaster has pushed back on such efforts, reportedly telling an NSC town hall meeting that “there’s no
such thing as a holdover” and emphasizing career staff’s loyalty.
McMaster has also sparred with Bannon, who was removed from the NSC principals’ committee at
McMaster’s behest shortly after McMaster became national security adviser following the ouster of
Michael Flynn after just 24 days on the job. McMaster’s relationship with Trump himself has likewise been
difficult.
McMaster has faced setbacks on policy, with a recent NSC plan for Afghanistan being initially rejected by
the President. He has been the frequent subject of speculation about whether his job is safe, fueled by
unflattering leaks, such as a recent AP story that detailed his having disagreed with Trump on Russia in
conversations with foreign officials. Earlier this year, his attempt to fire Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the NSC’s
top intelligence official, was blocked by Bannon, Jared Kushner, and Trump.
But more recently, he appears to have wrested back control of personnel decisions. In addition to Harvey
and Higgins, former Breitbart writer Tera Dahl recently left the NSC. The moves suggest an ongoing
struggle within the Trump White House over the nature of the threats facing the United States, and how
to address them.
Read the excerpt from the memo:
Through the campaign, candidate Trump tapped into a deep vein of concern among many citizens
that America is at risk and slipping away. Globalists and Islamists recognize that for their visions
to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national and political identity, must be destroyed.
… Islamists ally with cultural Marxists because, as far back as the 1980s, they properly assessed
that the left has a strong chance of reducing Western civilization to its benefit. Having co-opted
post-modern narratives as critical points, Islamists will co-opt the movement in its entirety at
some future point. (NOTE! Communist takeover of Russian revolution against the Czars, N
Vietnamese against the South, Maoists against the democratic forces against the Chinese
dynasty.)
 POLITICAL WARFARE ATTACKS—a primer
As used here, "political warfare' does not concern activities associated with the American political
process but rather exclusively refers to political warfare as understood by the Maoist insurgency
model. Political warfare is one of the five components of a Maoist insurgency. Maoist
methodologies are described as synchronized violent and non-violent actions. This approach
envisions the direct use of non-violent operations arts and tactics as elements of combat power
In Maoist insurgencies, the formation of a counter-state is essential to seizing state power.
Functioning as a hostile compete state acting within an existing state, it has an alternate
infrastructure. Political warfare operates as one of the activities of the "counter-state." Political
warfare uses non-violent methods such as participation that undermines the morale or offers to
engage in discussions, as a adjunct to violence. Political warfare methods can be implemented at
strategic, operations, or tactical levels of operation.
Political warfare is warfare. Strategic information campaigns designed to delegitimize through
disinformation arise out of non-violent lines of effort in political warfare regimes. They run on
multiple lines of operation, support the larger non-violent line of effort, are coordinated with
violent lines of effort, and execute political warfare agenda promoting cultural Marxist outcomes.
They principally operate through narratives. Because the left is aligned with Islamist organizations
at local, national and international levels, recognition should be given to the fact that they
seamlessly interoperate through coordinated synchronized interactive narratives … These attacks
narratives are pervasive, full spectrum and institutionalized at all levels. They operate in social
media, television, the 24-hour news cycle in all media and are entrenched at the upper levels of
the bureaucracies …
Political Warfare has been described as "propaganda in battledress."

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In many respects, the dramatis personae reverted to their “corners,” comfort zones that are revelatory:
[--] H.R. McMaster – is related to Stanford, Hoover, Atlantic Council Spirit of America, Zoom Video.
[++] Rich Higgins – Unconstrained Analytics {manifesting focus on national security, per his memo}
[-] Ricky Waddell – CURRENTLY Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff {explains a LOT}
[+] Michael Anton – Claremont {resigned one day after Bolton arrived, perhaps a harbinger}
[++] Steve Bannon – “Positive Populist” {quoting FNC’s Steve Hilton, airing daily x 2 hours plus Newsmax}
[+] Derek Harvey – Nunes aide {no wonder Devon is so erudite and consistently ahead-of-the-curve}
[+] Tera Dahl – Transatlantic Leadership Network {perhaps to counter the Atlantic Council’s liberality}