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Bloomberg: Trump Orders Cut to National Security Staff After Whistle-Blower
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump has ordered a substantial reduction in the staff of the National Security Council, according to five people familiar with the plans, as the White House confronts an impeachment inquiry touched off by a whistle-blower complaint related to the agency’s work.
Some of the people described the staff cuts as part of a White House effort to make its foreign policy arm leaner under new National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien.
The request to limit the size of the NSC staff was conveyed to senior agency officials by acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and O’Brien this week. The whistle-blower complaint, focused on Trump’s conduct in a July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has been followed by damaging reports on the president’s private conversations with other world leaders.
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WNU Editor: The media is saying that these cuts are due to leaks from the National Security Council. That may be the case. The Trump administration has been plagued by leaks since Day One, and the latest ones are from the Security Council staff. Will these cuts have an impact when it comes to leaks, probably not. But I think these cuts are more a reflection on what National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien wants (i.e. people that he trusts on the staff), and not the current media spin.
Update: This agency is bloated .... there were 100 staff members during the Clinton and Bush administrations, but swelled to 400 full-time members under President Obama (Instapundit).
President Trump Orders 'Substantial' Cuts In National Security Council Staff
Trump Orders 'Substantial' Cut in National Security Council Staff: Bloomberg -- US News and World Report/Reuters
Trump orders 'substantial' cut in National Security Council staff: Bloomberg -- Yahoo News
Trump Administration Calls for Smaller National Security Council Staff Following Whistleblower Complaint -- Newsweek
Trump has ordered national security staff cut: report -- The Hill
Report: Trump Orders Substantial Cut in National Security Council Staff -- VOA/Reuters
Swamp Draining Begins: Trump Orders Cuts To Security Council Amid CIA Whistleblower "Coup" -- Zero Hedge
5 comments:
Big organizations have people grow their area not due to need, but to look important and justify a large salary.
There was a fortune 100 corporation that tripled the size of its parts department. It did not have need of the extra capacity. Nonetheless, ground was broken, girders went up, and then construction came to a halt. For over a decade there it sat a white elephant literally. The girders were painted white. You could see it from the interstate.
An expensive white elephant
It was built to grow someone's kingdom within a large corporation.
Every nation, and many large corporations or large nonprofits suffer this disease to one extent or another.
What studies have been done by sociologists? Time to go back to school.
Bloated agency? There were 100 staff members in the NSC during the Clinton and Bush administrations, but it swelled to 400 full-time members under President Obama
Clean house!! Don't need that many people, just think about the wonderful pensions they are gaining at the expense of the American Tax payers. Cut away!!!
WNU,
I am not arguing with about the agency being bloated. It probably is, which is why I gave the concrete example.
I would not know, but I would ask did these extra 300 staffers provided more analysis and was that analysis worthwhile or a waste of trees?
In physics, they give an example of work or actually non-work. You can push against a boulder and expend all your strength against it. If you budge it not an inch, you have done no work.
In economics, you can spend oodles of money digging ditches and filling them up, but you have performed no productive economic activity.
Now, that we have the number, it seem a lot like 'featherbedding' or 'empire building'.
Efficiency will actually improve. In a larger organization, it is easier to slack. The limit that psychologists have found by studying the Hutterites of Montana and Canada is 150. It has to do with the limits of what the primate brain can keep track of. I bet with fewer numbers, when the director asks something, people will jump-to, very quickly.
300 shovel ready jobs. Like Miss Lizzie's Indian blood that vanished with a single mosquito bite. Gone! just like that. The Evil Trump.
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