@DetroitDan @t0nyyates @yoyoel but note again these are political roles, at the direct behest of the executive, not “deep state” within intelligence agencies or other forms of civil service. each president appoint her NSC.

overstating the extent of (nevertheless real) foreign influence ops was a political project by an electoral faction, not the work of some decades-old cadre among unaccountable nameless bureaucrats.