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President Trump’s latest freakout seems to be that Congress is, as he puts it, “even stealing people who work at the White House!” for their expanding investigations. A CNN story that moved earlier this afternoon clarified that Adam Schiff’s committee has hired former staffers from the National Security Council to assist the re-do of the Trump/Russia probe which now includes a deep look into the President’s personal financial empire. It wasn’t clear at first whether this meant people who had served at the NSC under Trump or at any time. But Bloomberg later reported that at least one hire is Abigail Grace who, according to her current bio at the Center for New American Security started at the NSC at the end of the Obama administration (sometime in 2016) and was there into 2018. She appears to be an Indo-Asia security person.
This whole thing requires a bit of explanation, as it seems to go directly both to Trump’s heightened state of threat and also the nuts and bolts of what the NSC actually is.