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intheflow

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14. Don't be ridiculous.
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 12:27 PM
Saturday

The Department of Agriculture isn't an organization included in the Nat'l Security Council. However, the DHS is an active member, and they help maintain the kill list of suspected domestic terrorists that Obama set up in 2009.

From Wikipedia:

Structure of the United States National Security Council[28]
Chairman: President
Regular attendees:
Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Energy, Secretary of the Treasury, Attorney General, Secretary of Homeland Security, Ambassador to the United Nations, White House Chief of Staff, National Security Advisor
Military advisor (and regular attendee): Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff[29]
Intelligence advisor (and regular attendee): Director of National Intelligence[29]
Drug policy advisor: Director of National Drug Control Policy
Regular attendees:
Deputy National Security Advisor, Homeland Security Advisor
Additional participants:
White House Counsel, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, United States Trade Representative, Director of the Office of Management and Budget

I'd post a direct link to the government's page on the US National Security Council page, but it doesn't exist for the current administration. The citation for this list is from the Biden WH archives. But I can't imagine that DHS has become less of a military arm of the government under Trump and Miller.


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