White supremacist Bannon removed from National Security Council

Via Bloomberg:

Under the move, the national intelligence director, Dan Coats, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, are again "regular attendees" of the NSCs principals committee.

Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart News, was elevated to the National Security Councils principals committee at the beginning of Trumps presidency. The move drew criticism from some members of Congress and Washingtons foreign policy establishment.

A White House official said that Bannon was placed on the committee in part to monitor Trumps first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and never attended a meeting. Hes no longer needed with McMaster in charge of the council, the official said.

Trump fired Flynn on Feb. 13 for not disclosing to the president or to Vice President Mike Pence the extent of his conversations with Russias ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, before Trumps inauguration.