National Security Council - Obama Presidency Oral History Back National Security Council Index / Organizations Transcripts Michael Daniel ...Council [HSC], and other folks on the National Security Council [NSC] who are working on cyber issues... ...on the National Security Council [ NSC ] who are working on cyber issues. S... ...the policy councils, in this case the National Security Council , negotiate with all the differen... ...the national security side. The HSC and NSC kick off a process to look at, Okay... ...to take the jump and move over to the NSC , so I start there in June o... ...would make it work; because, again, the NSC has certain structures about it tha... ...Which is, here you have a role; the NSC traditionally deals with US governmen... ...to operate within the structure of the NSC , but how is it actually going t... ...I'm curious if you've ever gotten an NSC person to tell you that they've had a... ...for anybody that's working on the National Security Council staff because those are difficult... ...in, maybe, the intel director at the NSC . So there's no home for it. There's n... ...the cybersecurity directorate on the NSC start developing a response to th... ...that don't have a home anywhere on the NSC , and they were vaguely technolog... ...of it was also just the way that the NSC was set up at the time, which was tha... ...set up at the time, which was that the NSC did not really have a directorate tha... ...implications and had no home on the NSC in an org chart, so you had to fin... ...You bet. Is there a home for it in the NSC ? No, so of course it ends up in th... ...with the Asia directorate on the NSC and other parts of the government t... ...anybody from Commerce or State or the NSC was meeting with the Chinese, this wa... ...what my role was at the National Security Council was to help drive towards a consensu... ...that we were doing that on the NSC staff, and that is not the job you wan... ...and that is not the job you want the NSC doing. When you've got situations wher... ...it was classified. Also, because the NSC has this tendency of wanting t... ...That was actually a big deal for the NSC because that was just not how w... ...legislative process, but then from the NSC standpoint of working on the substanc... ...sector. In fact, I pretty much gave the NSC general counsel hives from the amoun... ...it wasn't a typical role for the NSC , which, it's really not designed t... ...one of those sessions that's an actual NSC meeting that the president has in th... ...Room. You've got all of the senior National Security Council officials there, and we've got th... ...the little things that you learn as an NSC veteran. You can always tell the ne... ...of my career there, or time on the NSC . Because we worked on a lot o... Show more... Andrew Herscowitz ...all throughout the world. I sit on National Security Council call meetings now, and it's all Powe... ...House throughout this process? The National Security Council was heavily involved in Power Afric... ...I cochaired with the director of the National Security Council . I don't know if we cochaired it, bu... ...of them. But I was on the phone with National Security Council , early on, every day; towards the end... Richard Nephew ...he was the director for Iran in the National Security Council [NSC] before returning to the Stat... ...Iran in the National Security Council [ NSC ] before returning to the Stat... ...a very close working relationship with NSC . NSC was essentially willing to allo... ...close working relationship with NSC. NSC was essentially willing to allow Stat... ...government to be a lot more centered on NSC . That's where a lot of th... ...mechanisms started going through NSC . It was always formally the case, bu... ...that we would bring proposals to NSC ; NSC would vet them; they would als... ...that we would bring proposals to NSC; NSC would vet them; they would also discus... ...I believe that was headquartered in the National Security Council and in the White House, and whether yo... ...up to the Deputies Committee of the NSC . Tom Donilon was the chair of it... ...House and started participating in NSC meetings and principals meetings wher... ...with the leadership of USUN and the NSC , we were able to come up with ... ...This I'll say: I found, when I was at NSC as well later on, there was a lot o... ...to come on to is your move to the National Security Council , which I believe happens in May o... ...and what your role looked like on the NSC . I don't remember exactly when. ... ...up there. I imagine entering the National Security Council right after having a newborn probabl... ...what we provided. It was a lot, even by NSC standards, to be able to support that... ...[Osama] bin Laden. So I also joined an NSC that was still kind of big eyes afte... ...the sanctions policy directed by the NSC ? What role was the White House playin... ...through some internal processes. But NSC was still absolutely the center o... ...how was that integrated into the other NSC offices looking at the Arab Spring? ... ...I ever participated in at the NSC , and other places, was about wha... ...that we mentioned while you're at the NSC : this period of escalatin... ...to the State Department and leave the NSC . Why did you move back to Stat... ...I didn't want to do two babies at NSC . That was too much. At that point, i... ...a rule that I passed along to other NSC directors: don't stay for longer tha... ...Affairs] and senior director at the NSC , twice. He was a master of Poland. H... Show more... Valerie Jarrett ...that the banks are healthy, and the National Security Council was working on a whole range of foreig... ...councils—Domestic Policy Council, the National Security Council , the [National] Economic Council, th... ...with the Dalai Lama? Someone on the National Security Council had a bright idea that the perso... ...had prep meetings with the folks in the National Security Council . One of them traveled with me t... ...the National Economic Council, and the National Security Council . Policies came up through thos... Tina Tchen ...of the agencies that respond—and the National Security Council , where the national security agencie... ...actually—who was, at that time, in the National Security Council as the senior director in charge o... ...a lot of work with people within the NSC [National Security Council]—found, i... ...allies in different parts of the National Security Council . Secretary Clinton, because Melann... ...Denis [R. McDonough] was still at the National Security Council then, as the deputy national securit... ...the process. He was the deputy in the National Security Council . And we found out that, in fact, tha... ...I got to really know people inside the National Security Council . So the National Security Council tea... ...the National Security Council. So the National Security Council team that's housed in the White House... ...of, again, various folks inside the National Security Council who were responsible for thes... ...or the Domestic Policy Council or the National Security Council , as I mentioned. And I started doin... ...was an ally. I found allies within the NSC , to your point, so it was Samanth... ...I'm emailing all of the people on the NSC and elsewhere who worked with me o... ...for me. It made a difference. The prior NSC directors were less interested, so ... ...convene interagencies, like the NSC does, which is what got the Stat... ...nine, again, early on, from the National Security Council , on veterans issues. And we were par... Show more... Ernest Moniz ...the security side—we were part of the National Security Council subgroup on many major security issues... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the LGBTQ Policy LGBTQ Policy go to the Education Education go to the Obama in the Senate Obama in the Senate go to the Chicago Chicago go to the Atlantic Relations Atlantic Relations