The size of the National Security Council staff matters not nearly as much as both its mission and the cohesion — or lack thereof — of the agency heads that constitute the council itself.

Following the Trump administration’s reorganization of the National Security Council staff, former NSC staffers say the president appears to place more confidence in the State Department to ...

The White House has reduced National Security Council staff by over 100, raising questions about its ability to handle global security under Marco Rubio's interim leadership.

Trump administration's NSC overhaul sees significant staff cuts, with Marco Rubio as interim advisor, sparking debate over how much staff reductions risk American national security.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. At 4:20 p.m. on the Friday before Memorial Day, Brian McCormack, the National Security Council chief of staff, sent an email to more than 100 staffers ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former national intelligence official Richard Clarke about the changes at the National Security Council. It's a classic Washington power move - the late-on ...

It's a classic Washington power move - the late-on-Friday news dump. Well, this past Friday at 4:30 p.m. - start of a long holiday weekend - about half the staff of the National Security Council ...

The Trump administration plans to cut thousands of intelligence and national security jobs across the government, the kind of jobs in which Richard Clarke served more than three decades - 10 of those ...