Inside the Fiasco at the National Security Council

Isaac Stanley-Becker: “On the priorities that matter most to the president, Waltz has less influence than Stephen Miller… Miller treats the advisory body not as a forum to weigh policy options, current and former officials told me, but as a platform to advance his own hard-line immigration agenda.”

“Meanwhile, Waltz’s authority to hire and fire his own staff has been swept out from under him.” 

“The disorder at the NSC, officials told me, stems from Trump’s impatience with process, disregard for the law, and insistence on loyalty in place of expertise.”