Somebody ask Big Joe about this.
I read your post last night but it didn't totally sink in until this morning.
The nation's top spy and its top soldier are no longer on the President's National Security Council, and they have been replaced by an alt-right propagandist and provocateur. In the event of an international crisis, neither the Intelligence Community nor the Pentagon will have a seat at the table that makes the decision on how to deal with it.
Change of mission for NSC?