White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Monday tried to tamp down the furor over President Donald Trump's reorganization of the National Security Council, saying "nothing has changed."
A comparison of Trump's order with documents from the Bush and Obama administrations, however, shows that is not entirely accurate.
Unlike President Barack Obama, but like President George W. Bush, Trump did not make the U.S. director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff regular members of the Cabinet-level Principals Committee.
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