Talk:National Security Advisor (United States)
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Why should you care what other people write? You shouldn't delete it because obviously it is something that person wanted to say. HmG
[edit] Independence
"The National Security Advisor is appointed by the President without confirmation by the United States Senate. As such, he or she is not connected to the bureaucratic politics of the Departments of State and Defense, and is therefore able to offer independent advice."
Surely by removing the confirmatory step, independence is removed completely?
Here is a contradiction in this article: The NSA is appointed without confirmation, and Condi Rice was confirmed by a vote of the Senate.
[edit] Spelling
I believe it's Adviser not Advisor, at least that's what C-Span was displaying when they were showing a conference with Zbigniew Brzezinski the former National Security Adviser under President Jimmy Carter. I would like to suggest that this be changed. Dog Face Charlie 20:37, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- I was going to second you on that since my in-browser spell checker flagged advisor as a misspelling. Adviser and Advisor are both correct spellings for 'counselor', but I do believe the spelling with the 'o' is correct for this office. In Google searches, it looks like advisor (84,000,000 results) is more common than adviser (34,500,000), but "national security adviser" (1,070,000) betters "national security advisor" (937,000). Both spellings are available on official US government websites. When searching only *.gov sites, "national security advisor" beats out the "adviser" version 56,400 to 13,300. Whitehouse.gov http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/ has "national security advisor" in several places, so I think it's best to keep it like it is until someone can track do a more reliable source that states the official spelling of this office. Or maybe we should change it to the really official "Assistant to the President For National Security Affairs". LinguistAtLarge 00:57, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
