Below watch the disturbing video about McMaster allowing "Unmasker" Susan Rice to keep her security clearance while not working in the U.S. government. Also McMaster has fired pro-Trump supporters: Ezra Cohen Watnick, Derek Harvey, David Cattler, Adam Lovinger and Rich Higgins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN0vld3Tm9o
Purged NSC advisor Rich Higgins talks about the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) in the video below.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/02/former-dod-official-warns-america-is-on-the-wrong-track-to-fighting-war-on-terror-video/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aepyHQO-Mjg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN0vld3Tm9o
Purged NSC advisor Rich Higgins talks about the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) in the video below.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/02/former-dod-official-warns-america-is-on-the-wrong-track-to-fighting-war-on-terror-video/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aepyHQO-Mjg
From September 2006 to February 2017,
McMaster is listed as
a member of International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), where he
served as consulting senior fellow. The IISS
describes itself as a “world-leading authority on global security, political
risk and military conflict.”
The
IISS has been supportive of the Obama administration-brokered 2015 nuclear
accord with Iran, and the group has repeatedly hit back against charges that
Tehran has violated the agreement.
McMaster himself has purged the National
Security Council of hardliners on Iran and other nationalists,
and he is seen as a leading proponent of the Iran nuclear accord within the
Trump administration. He has reportedly urged the White House to recertify
Iran’s compliance with the Iran nuclear deal.
IISS’s
website contains a list of
groups, corporations and government entities that provide funding to the think
tank, including during the period of McMaster’s work there. Curiously missing from the page
of donors, however, is the controversial Ploughshares Fund, a grant making
group identified last year by the Obama White House as central in helping to
market the Iran nuclear deal to the news media.
An archived version of IISS’s donors
page lists Ploughshares
as a donor.
IISS
is listed as a grantee for Iran issues in Ploughshares Fund’s budget
report for 2016. That report spotlights IISS as a grantee for Iran work done by
Michael Elleman,
IISS senior fellow for missile defense.
In
a recent IISS analysis,
Elleman cast doubt on charges that Iran and North Korea are working together on
ballistic-missile development, claiming “there is little evidence to indicate
the two regimes are engaged in deep missile-related collaboration, or pursuing
joint-development programs.”
Joseph Cirincione, president of
Ploughshares Fund, is listed as a member of IISS
in his Georgetown University bio.
Soros-Funded
Ploughshares is part of ‘Echo Chamber’ to Sell Obama’s Iran Deal. Ploughshares
Fund is financed by
Soros’ Open Society Institute. The involvement of Ploughshares in selling the
Iran agreement to the public was revealed in an extensive New
York Times Magazine profile of
Obama’s former deputy
national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, titled, “The Aspiring Novelist
Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru.” The article contains interviews with
Rhodes and scores of top Obama administration officials.
Robert Malley, then a senior director
at the National Security Council, expounded on the
genesis and execution of the marketing plan to sell the Iran deal.
Malley explained to the Times that
“experts” were utilized to create an “echo chamber” that disseminated administration
claims about Iran to “hundreds of often-clueless reporters” in the news media.
Times author
David Samuels wrote: In the spring of last year, legions of arms-control
experts began popping up at think tanks and on social media, and then
became key sources for hundreds of often-clueless reporters. “We created an echo chamber,”
he admitted, when I asked him to explain the onslaught of freshly
minted experts cheerleading for the deal. “They were saying things that
validated what we had given them to say.”
Rhodes told Samuels that
the marketing strategy took advantage of the “absence of rational
discourse” and utilized outside groups, including Ploughshares.
When
I suggested that all this dark metafictional play seemed a bit removed
from rational debate over America’s future role in the world, Rhodes nodded.
“In the absence of rational discourse, we are going to discourse the
[expletive] out of this,” he said. “We had test drives to know who was
going to be able to carry our message effectively, and how
to use outside groups like Ploughshares, the Iran
Project and whomever else. So we knew the tactics that worked.” He is proud of
the way he sold the Iran deal. “We drove them crazy,” he said of the
deal’s opponents.
Ploughshares
says it has awarded hundreds of grants “whose aggregate value exceeded $60
million.”
Ploughshares has partnered with a who’s-who
of the radical left, including Code Pink, the pro-Palestinian J Street, United
for Peace & Justice, the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and
Demos, a progressive economic advisory group where Obama’s controversial former
green jobs czar, Van Jones, has served on the board.
The
group says its mission is
to support the “smartest minds and most effective organizations to reduce
nuclear stockpiles, prevent new nuclear states, and increase global security.”
Ploughshares is in turn financed by
Soros’s Open Society Institute, the Buffett Foundation, the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and
the Rockefeller Foundation.
Another Ploughshares donor is
the Tides Foundation, which is one of the largest funders of the radical left.
Tides is funded by Soros.
Ploughshares
has donated to
the Institute for Policy Studies, which calls for massive slashes in the U.S.
defense budget. It has also financed the
International Crisis Group, a small organization that boasts George
Soros and his son, Alexander, on its board and where Malley now works as vice
president for public policy.
Last
week, McMaster removed
Ezra Cohen-Watnick, a Trump aide and Iran deal opponent, from the National
Security Council in what the Jerusalem Post reported was
a possible “sweep of Iran hard-liners.”
The Post reported
on two other McMaster purges of Iran hardliners:
Cohen-Watnick’s removal comes after the revelation
by The Atlantic on Wednesday of the dismissal of Rich Higgins, another Iran hawk who was the NSC’s
director of strategic planning. Higgins was sacked for circulating a memo in which he alleged that there
was a “Maoist” insurgency within and without the government of “globalists
and Islamists.”
Also gone is Derek Harvey, who held the Middle East portfolio at the
NSC, and who also was an Iran hawk, and who may assume another role in
the administration. McMaster
tapped Michael Bell, a retired army colonel who has a conventional
career portfolio, to replace Harvey.
Speaking
at a recent event held by Ploughshares Fund, former Secretary of State John Kerry implied that
McMaster is the best bet at keeping the nuclear agreement alive, according to a
Ploughshares Fund description of the June 5, 2017 event.
IISS,
meanwhile, has supported the Iran nuclear agreement and has defended Tehran
against reports it has violated tenets of the deal.
Last
month, IISS featured a piece by Mark Fitzpatrick, chief
of the think tank’s non-proliferation and nuclear policy program, titled,
“Three strikes against claims that Iran is violating the nuclear accord.” The
IISS piece argued
that “criticism of Iran’s conduct in relation to the 2015 nuclear deal does not
withstand scrutiny,” and that the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the
agreement “would not convince other parties to re-impose sanctions, but could
trigger a global crisis.” In June, the IISS’s Fitzpatrick opined that
“Critics are wrong: Iran remains in compliance with nuclear accord.”
An
IISS strategic comment paper, titled,
“Trump’s erratic Middle East policy,” argued that Trump’s
confrontational approach toward Iran is “unlikely to lend needed stability to
the region.”
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