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Johnnie Carson

...the CIA, and the White House National Security Council [NSC] staff. It also involves OM...
...White House National Security Council [ NSC ] staff. It also involves OMB [Offic...
...president. It was not there. But at the National Security Council staff, it was excellent, and couldn'...
...were pretty clear. Strong team at the NSC led at the Africa side by Michell...
...senior advisor for Africa on the NSC . Michelle Gavin instituted this ide...

...its inception. We were asked by the NSC and the White House to put this progra...

Wally Adeyemo

...think of the White House or the National Security Council [NSC]—or they do think of them wher...
...director. And Bob and the head of the National Security Council decided to create a joint unit tha...
...joint role, you largely sat within the National Security Council apparatus, which gave you access t...
...their staff and to the resources of the National Security Council while also duly reporting to th...
...apparatus. So you often think about the National Security Council as being focused on diplomacy, and als...

...because you're in the room when the NSC deputies meet, or in the room with th...
...these issues were brought to the National Security Council , often dealt with in collaboratio...
...dealt with in collaboration with the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. S...
...between Brian Deese, my team at the NSC , and Secretary Kerry's team at th...

Martin Dempsey

...for preparing him for meetings in the National Security Council or the Principals Committee. Then...
...in the National Security Council or the Principals Committee . Then, subsequent to that, I becam...
...issues get into the Sit Room of the National Security Council , or principals meeting. I wanted th...
...figuring out how to contribute to the National Security Council rather than do what's more comfortable...
...dutifully went back to work with the National Security Council —mostly through the Principal...

...Security Council—mostly through the Principals Committee , but episodically with him. We mad...
...Putin—and when I say “us,” I mean the National Security Council , the president—it occurred to us tha...
...chiefs, and in conversation with the National Security Council and the president, we had to actuall...
...for all of my time on the National Security Council , the answer—it was the US militar...
...on a subject before we actually have a National Security Council with him at the head of the table. Whe...
...group, and then, eventually, to the National Security Council at large. I was brought in at th...
...final round of negotiations. So we, the National Security Council , reached a point where, on ...
...remember the exact date—there was a National Security Council meeting. And the topic, as I rea...
...double honor to be a member of the National Security Council at some really challenging times in ou...

Terry Szuplat

...senior director of speechwriting at the National Security Council staff. During the second term, h...

William McRaven

...bumped it up to the president and the National Security Council . Always the joint staff was part o...
...the deputies and the principals in the National Security Council staff or the National Security Council...
...National Security Council staff or the National Security Council , and then, finally, when the time wa...
...in the White House on President Bush's National Security Council staff, and I would offer that was ...

James Jones

...said I could hire who I wanted for the NSC [National Security Council]. We ha...
...I could hire who I wanted for the NSC [ National Security Council ]. We had some preliminary discussions...
...you have to do is get a handle on the NSC , make sure it's up and operating. S...
...all the big decisions, and informed the NSC , and the NSC informed the interagenc...
...and informed the NSC, and the NSC informed the interagency or somethin...

...four layers of decision-making in the NSC . In our model, we decided to try t...
...There's nothing set in concrete in the NSC ; you can do whatever you want. On...
...we were inheriting a system that had a National Security Council and a Homeland Security Council, wit...
...of the people who work in the NSC were detailees from other agencies, an...
...salaries. So that's a burden that the NSC doesn't have, but it's also an Achille...
...harmed the continuity of the entire NSC . I spent some time during the almos...
...I thought that what was wrong with the NSC while I was there was that, it ha...
...kind of take care of these things. The NSC didn't have that, and that wa...
...Did you feel that the structure of the NSC inherited from the Bush administratio...
...was, I wanted to bring energy into the NSC as a national security issue. Durin...
...I said, we'd like to invite you in the NSC , because this is a national securit...
...an important creation that served the NSC well. Now, as you're thinking abou...
...you're thinking about building up the NSC , how did you also kind of tend to th...
...said, “Mr. President, the motto of the NSC is that, if you're not at the table...
...cut-out. We had a saying in the NSC that we have to adhere to what we cal...
...and about six or seven people from the NSC were also in the office. They were al...
...with the model you had designed for the NSC . Well, my model—I told people, I wa...
...fine. I told, in my introduction to the NSC staff after it was formed, I just said...
...where there was really at odds with the NSC . So much so, was that he didn't wan...
...way the world looked to you from the NSC , are there things that I haven't aske...
...did you prepare the White House and the NSC staff to deal with things—a fe...
...you were monitoring? My view of the National Security Council was that we did not get involved i...
...is done. The coordinating role of the NSC I think was something that was ver...
...well. It's my understanding that the NSC did play an operational role in th...
...that you had envisioned for the National Security Council , the process of getting information t...
...position? My goal was to create a National Security Council that responded to the president'...
...have liked to turn the staffing of the National Security Council upside down. I would like to have had ...
...the way that the coordination of the NSC to the interagency was effective; no...
...then that's one thing that, the NSC is great place to work; it's a har...
...in terms of working with the NSC [National Security Council] and workin...
...in terms of working with the NSC [ National Security Council ] and working with senior directors, o...
...the process you established in the NSC to try and tee up decisions for th...
...trying to build a consensus that the NSC should, first and foremost, be ...

Harold Hongju Koh

...he got wind from the White House, National Security Council , that there was going to be a militar...
...call the Executive Committee [of the National Security Council ], the EXCOMM. If you read Bobb...
...Justice Department were convened by the National Security Council legal adviser, who became Avril Haines...

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