Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) filed an amendment on Wednesday to cut the size of the National Security Council, following controversial comments made by senior NSC staffer Ben Rhodes.
"The current NSC has grown so large that the White House cannot even give us a clear estimate of how many people actually work for it. Now we hear reports of NSC staffers running misinformation campaigns targeted at Congress and the press," Thornberry said in a statement.
The New York Times Magazine recently published an interview with Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, in which he talked about the tactics he used to sell the Iran nuclear deal to the Washington press corps.
via thehill.com
Adding the Senate confirmation option for a larger NSC is a nice touch.
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