H.R. McMaster, National Security Advisor and Head of Homeland Security for the National Security Council

Promoted on March 4, 2017 to Head of Homeland Security, replacing Tom Bossert in that position. “The change downgrades the role of Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert, who had been given authority to convene or chair the NSC’s principals committee under Trump’s original structure. He’ll serve those roles now as delegated by McMaster, according to a presidential memorandum dated Tuesday.”    Bloomberg

Trump Chooses H.R. McMaster as National Security Adviser  Replacing Michael Flynn February 20, 2017  NY Times

A month in, McMaster “tried to fire (30 year old) Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence programs at the National Security Council”…Ezra complained to Bannon and Kushner, and Trump reinstated him…”clear White House obstructionism”  NY Times

McMaster “has told his staff that Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion, rejecting a key ideological view of other senior Trump advisers and signaling a potentially more moderate approach to the Islamic world.  The adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, told the staff of the National Security Council on Thursday, in his first “all hands” staff meeting, that the label “radical Islamic terrorism” was not helpful because terrorists are “un-Islamic,” according to people who were in the meeting.”  NY Times

Rebuked in 2015 over handling of 2 officers accused of sexual assault  NY Times