As U.S. discouraged mask use for public, White House team raced to secure face coverings from Taiwan for senior staff - The Washington Post

National Security Council officials worried there were not sufficient masks on the White House complex to protect staff amid the coronavirus pandemic....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-us-discouraged-mask-use-for-public-white-house-team-raced-to-secure-face-coverings-from-taiwan-for-senior-staff/2020/04/15/27d815d2-7ac5-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html

Coronavirus: Did Trump's decision to nix pandemic team hinder response

In May 2018, President Donald Trump’s biodefense preparedness adviser warned that a flu pandemic was the country’s No. 1 health security threat, and the U.S. was not prepared. “We know that it cannot be stopped at the border,” Luciana Borio, director of medical and biodefense preparedness at the National Security Council, said at a symposium that day. ...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/03/18/coronavirus-did-president-trumps-decision-disband-global-pandemic-office-hinder-response/5064881002/

Trump FINALLY confronted by reporter for firing global health experts in 2018

https://youtu.be/KVhgKgkai5c

"I don't know anything about it," Trump says about his White House eliminating the pandemic response team

In May 2018 the Trump administration dismissed the top “global health security” specialist on the National Security Council and disbanded the pandemic-preparedness team he had led. (Then–National Security Adviser John Bolton was said to have been behind the move.) The responsibility for monitoring infectious disease threats was technically given to another group within the NSC, but even at the time, the Washington Post wrote that the reorganization was seen by experts in the field as “a downgrading of global health security.” This decision has been subject to some scrutiny during the last month of disaster un-preparedness and global health insecurity.....
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/i-dont-know-anything-about-it-trump-says-about-his-white-house-eliminating-the-pandemic-response-team.html

Nunes associate lands key intelligence post on Trump’s National Security Council after being implicated in Ukraine scandal: report – Raw Story

According to a report from POLITICO, former counsel to the House Intelligence Committee under Devin Nunes and White House lawyer, Michael Ellis, has been named by President Trump to be senior director for intelligence on the National Security Council, with his first day on the job being this past Monday. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/nunes-associate-lands-key-intelligence-post-on-trumps-national-security-council-after-being-implicated-in-ukraine-scandal-report/

White House official confirms diplomat’s account that Trump appeared to seek quid pro quo - The Washington Post

Tim Morrison has been on the job for about 15 months, joining the security council during former national security adviser John Bolton's tenure.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/national-security-council-official-set-to-testify-in-impeachment-inquiry-is-leaving-his-post/2019/10/30/261285c6-fb62-11e9-8190-6be4deb56e01_story.html

Alexander Vindman testifies on Trump administration's alleged attempts at quid pro quo with Ukraine - The Washington Post

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a Ukraine expert assigned to the National Security Council, testified in the House impeachment inquiry Tuesday, offering new details on the push for investigations of President Trump’s political rivals and corroborating other witnesses with his firsthand account of the alleged attempt at a quid pro quo.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/vindman-offers-a-firsthand-account-of-critical-episodes-in-alleged-quid-pro-quo/2019/10/29/cb16a5c0-fa45-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html

Army officer who heard Trump's Ukraine call 'did not think it was proper' and reported his concerns

Army Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman is the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council in the White House. As such, he was listening in on Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—and he was deeply concerned by what he heard. That’s what he plans to tell House impeachment investigators on Tuesday, in what promises to be very, very difficult testimony for Republicans to hand-wave away. In the statement, Vindman emphasizes that he is not the whistleblower who originally raised the issue of the Ukraine call, and “I do not know who the whistleblower is.” But he shared many of the same concerns, and “I did convey certain concerns internally to national security officials in accordance with my decades of experience and training, sense of duty, and obligation to operate within the chain of command.” https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/10/28/1895729/-Army-officer-who-heard-Trump-s-Ukraine-call-did-not-think-it-was-proper-and-reported-his-concerns

Trump’s ex-Russia adviser told impeachment investigators of Giuliani’s efforts in Ukraine - The Washington Post

Trump's ex-Russia adviser told impeachment investigators of Giuliani's efforts in Ukraine
Fiona Hill, who resigned from her National Security Council post earlier this year, is expected to speak to House committees about the president's dealings with Ukraine....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trumps-former-top-russia-adviser-to-testify-in-house-impeachment-probe/2019/10/14/e6015c1c-ee34-11e9-8693-f487e46784aa_story.html

White House to set up panel to counter climate change consensus, officials say - The Washington Post

The White House plans to create an ad hoc group of select federal scientists to reassess the government’s analysis of climate science and counter conclusions that the continued burning of fossil fuels is harming the planet, according to three senior administration officials. The National Security Council initiative would include scientists who question the severity of climate impacts and the extent to which humans contribute to the problem, according to these individuals, who asked for anonymity to discuss internal deliberations...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/white-house-to-select-federal-scientists-to-reassess-government-climate-findings-sources-say/2019/02/24/49cd0a84-37dd-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html

Despite warnings, Trump appointees pressed nuclear sales to Saudis, report says - The Washington Post

Key members of the Trump administration pushed a plan to sell nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia in the months after the inauguration despite objections from members of the National Security Council and other senior White House officials, according to a new report from congressional Democrats. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-trump-appointees-promoted-selling-nuclear-power-plants-to-saudi-arabia-over-objections-from-national-security-officials-house-democratic-report-says/2019/02/19/6a719762-3456-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html

Trump election security meeting had no coherent strategy, reportedly lasted less than an hour - ThinkProgress.org

On Friday, President Donald Trump finally chaired a meeting of his National Security Council devoted explicitly to combating electoral interference in the United States. The meeting, which was meant to cover all activities federal agencies were undertaking to protect elections, reportedly lasted less than an hour and ended with no new directives. ....
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-no-coherent-strategy-election-interference-russia-386e936a5b66/

Trump Staffer Forced Out After Standing Up for Refugees - New York Magazine

In a xenophobic administration allergic to inconvenient facts, this may be the ultimate sin. ....
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/jennifer-arangio-forced-out-after-standing-up-for-refugees.html

Top White House official in charge of pandemic response exits abruptly - The Washington Post

Timothy Ziemer's departure Tuesday and the disbanding of his team at the National Security Council signal a downgrading of global health security as a priority, experts warn. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/05/10/top-white-house-official-in-charge-of-pandemic-response-exits-abruptly/

Jared Kushner Failed to Disclose He Led a Foundation Funding Illegal Israeli Settlements Before U.N. Vote -- Newsweek

Yet another omission was discovered on Jared Kushner's financial disclosure forms Friday, as news broke of his reported involvement in attempting to sway a U.N. Security Council vote before Donald Trump became president. ....
http://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-disclosure-form-west-bank-settlements-israel-white-house-729290

Flynn Had National Security Council Promote Nuke Plan To Trump -- TPM: WSJ

Michael Flynn had his Middle East nuclear power plan prepped for presidential approval by staffers at the National Security Council, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Flynn's plan to promote his former colleagues' business interests in the Middle East while serving in the Trump administration was previously known—what wasn't known is how far he managed to get with it. ....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/flynn-saudi-nuke-plants

NSC memo exposes ties between Trump Jr. and the White House -- ThinkProgress.org

The explosive, seven-page National Security memo that led to the firing of former staffer Rich Higgins last month is the proverbial gift that keeps on giving. Following earlier reports that detailed its more alarming components, Foreign Policy on Thursday got its hands on a full transcript of the memo and published it online. ...
https://thinkprogress.org/memo-ties-trump-jr-whitehouse-ad9ab984443a/

Trump National Security Team Blindsided by NATO Speech

They thought the president would commit to the principle of collective defense. They were wrong. ...
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/05/trump-nato-speech-national-security-team-215227?cid=apn

The New Yorker: Steve Bannon Is Losing to the Globalists

Bashar al-Assad's forces appear to have used chemical weapons on Syrian civilians again; Kim Jong-un's North Korea has fired off another intermediate-range ballistic missile; and Xi Jinping, the President of China, has arrived in the United States for a summit meeting with Donald Trump. Big news all, you might think. But inside the political bubble, the main topic of conversation and speculation at the moment is how and why Steve Bannon, Trump's senior political adviser, got booted from the National Security Council....
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/steve-bannon-is-losing-to-the-globalists?mbid=rss

Three White House officials tied to files shared with House intelligence chairman

At least three senior White House officials, including the top lawyer for the National Security Council, were involved in the handling of intelligence files that were shared with the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and showed that Trump campaign officials were swept up in U.S. surveillance of foreign nationals, according to U.S. officials....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/three-white-house-officials-tied-to-files-shared-with-house-intelligence-chairman/2017/03/30/de4b8c30-1589-11e7-9e4f-09aa75d3ec57_story.html?utm_term=.1f7b749ecc0b