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FWIW, I think the removal of the Secretary of Energy from the list is an unintentional error. He's a statutory member of NSC.

A more detailed view of the NSC/PC changes and what they meanhttps://twitter.com/lawfareblog/status/825502319269838851 …

Perhaps the kindest reading of this memo is it's adding Bannon to NSC (wtf!!) but the other changes are just bad drafting.

@pwnallthethings Where's the Vice President?

@blakedotfr in section E of memo, says POTUS And VPOTUS may attend all meetings. Just not on graphic above.

@pwnallthethings Incredible. No Energy Secretary ever?

@_sinphi @pwnallthethings to be fair, do you really think Perry would be adding much?

@benjamin_neely @pwnallthethings No, but nukes?

@_sinphi @pwnallthethings Right, I’m just not sure if I’d feel more or less safe with Rick Perry there.

@benjamin_neely @pwnallthethings DOE does arms inspections as well as maintaining the arsenal. Infrastructure is critical. Info you need...

@_sinphi @pwnallthethings Yeah, snark aside, not having him there is nuts.

@pwnallthethings DNI and Chair of Joint Chiefs are only situationally invited to national security meetings... There's simply no rationale.

@TurkanaDK @pwnallthethings Same in 2001 -- https://fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/nspd-1.htm …

@greg9799 @pwnallthethings And that worked out real well.

@TurkanaDK @pwnallthethings ok, but this looks to me like cut and paste laziness from last Republican + "add steve." Avoid overreach.

@greg9799 @pwnallthethings Certainly adding Bannon disturbing enough on its own, but no DNI and no Joint Chiefs is a huge hole in expertise.

@TurkanaDK @pwnallthethings Adding Bannon is a story. I don't know enough about NSC/PC to say impact of DNI/CJCS. SECDEF is regular. Always need CJCS, too?

@greg9799 @TurkanaDK @pwnallthethings DNI did not exist in 2001. DNI coordinates all intelligence.