I thought that Marco Rubio and Michael Waltz were terrible picks for their present positions, because that same ilk - Pompeo and Bolton - had sabotaged Trump in his first administration.
In retrospect, they were fantastic picks. It appears to me that they are helping Trump execute his policies and not theirs. I'm not persuaded by "trust Trump" or "trust the plan", considering that people who say that now bash people who wrongly trusted Trump and praised Chris Wray when he was appointed.
So I was wrong, and I really hope I continue to be wrong.
Or it may just be incompetence. Why does everything have to be 912-dimensional chess? I've heard it for 10 years now and it never pans out. Insofar as Trump gets the better of his opponents, it seems to me to be tactics rather than strategy - and their own goals.
They destroyed the MK Ultra documents, and no one ever faced any consequences for that.
(That said, I hope you're right.)
Playing 33d baduk now, chess is over
In this case? It's really simple. Without the backing of the very top though? It's all meaningless.
Like James Comey "pardoning" Hillary by refusing to send the case forward because HE thinks she didn't mean to do it? a) it didn't matter if she meant to or not, it's hard time in prison for the first offense b) she clearly DID mean to do it c) she had signed an affidavit saying she'd done it legally, when in fact that was a lie.
If there had been anyone in charge with a shred of morality? Both Hillary and Comey would be behind bars. But there was not.
I hope Trump goes after the whole rats nest of them, once he gets the important stuff done. There's no 'double jeopardy' since she was never charged!