Obama's NSC Will Get New Power

[Bann (Premo)]

There's a lot more going on besides the stimulus bill. Where's the news about this?

President Obama plans to order a sweeping overhaul of the National Security Council, expanding its membership and increasing its authority to set strategy across a wide spectrum of international and domestic issues.

The result will be a "dramatically different" NSC from that of the Bush administration or any of its predecessors since the forum was established after World War II to advise the president on diplomatic and military matters, according to national security adviser James L. Jones, who described the changes in an interview. "The world that we live in has changed so dramatically in this decade that organizations that were created to meet a certain set of criteria no longer are terribly useful," he said.

Jones, a retired Marine general, made it clear that he will run the process and be the primary conduit of national security advice to Obama, eliminating the "back channels" that at times in the Bush administration allowed Cabinet secretaries and the vice president's office to unilaterally influence and make policy out of view of the others.

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"The whole concept of what constitutes the membership of the national security community -- which, historically has been, let's face it, the Defense Department, the NSC itself and a little bit of the State Department, to the exclusion perhaps of the Energy Department, Commerce Department and Treasury, all the law enforcement agencies, the Drug Enforcement Administration, all of those things -- especially in the moment we're currently in, has got to embrace a broader membership," he said.


New NSC directorates will deal with such department-spanning 21st-century issues as cybersecurity, energy, climate change, nation-building and infrastructure. Many of the functions of the Homeland Security Council, established as a separate White House entity by President Bush after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, may be subsumed into the expanded NSC, although it is still undetermined whether elements of the HSC will remain as a separate body within the White House.

Obama's NSC Will Get New Power - washingtonpost.com

[Nonno]

Originally Posted by Bann

There's a lot more going on besides the stimulus bill. Where's the news about this?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...topnews&sub=AR

Well here's Fox quoting the Washington Post.....
Report: National Security Council to Undergo Dramatic Changes Under Obama Administration - First 100 Days of Presidency - Politics FOXNews.com

And here is the original WAPO page,
washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines

What more do you want?

PS: Your link doesn't work.

[Bann (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Nonno

Well here's Fox quoting the Washington Post.....
Report: National Security Council to Undergo Dramatic Changes Under Obama Administration - First 100 Days of Presidency - Politics FOXNews.com

And here is the original WAPO page,
washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines

What more do you want?

PS: Your link doesn't work.

Oh, pardon moi. I meant we're not hearing much news about it.

I guess the president is making sure the stimulus package takes all the attention away from all the other stuff he's doing.