On Saturday, Bannon was elevated to the National Security Council and its "Principals Committee" – even as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director of National Intelligence were removed as permanent members of that influential committee.
While Lt. Gen. William Boykin, the deputy secretary of defense for intelligence, should be removed from his current assignment, the justification for removal should not and cannot be his deeply held religious beliefs.
Peter Strzok, a veteran FBI counter-intelligence agent, was removed from Mueller's team following the discovery of text messages exchanged with Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer who was also detailed this year to the group of agents and prosecutors investigating potential coordination between Russia and Trump's Republican campaign.
The incident triggered further clashes between security forces and militants in the peninsula and led to the Egyptian chief of intelligence, Mourad Mowafi, being removed, along with other senior security figures.
Under Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the cowboy head of Saudi Intelligence until he was removed in April 2014, the Saudis also funneled huge amounts of arms and money to some of the most militant groups battling Syria's Assad -- helping ISIS gain its foothold in Iraq.
But Mr Khatami's supporters have yet to succeed in their demand that the intelligence minister himself should be removed.
In 1983 the entire Pakistani intelligence staff based here was removed for trafficking in drugs and arms destined for the American-financed resistance fighters.
But the "X" has been removed from intelligence reports, indicating that American intelligence officials consider the missile to be operational and no longer a system in development.
The Washington Post subsequently reported that President Barack Obama's defense secretary and director of national intelligence had recommended that Rogers be removed as head of the NSA.
A top U.S. military official in consideration to be Donald Trump's director of national intelligence has been recommended to be removed from his command in the Obama administration.
Turkey's Interior Ministry announced late on Tuesday that Ankara's police, intelligence, and security chiefs have been removed from their posts for the sake of an investigation.
