February 17 National Security Council meeting

The February 17 National Security Council meeting took place in the evening hours of February 17, 2021, in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center of the White House in Washington, D.C., between U.S. President Tom Kirkman and members of the National Security Council. The meeting was held to discuss the 2021 White House shooting that occurred shortly before.
During the meeting, U.S. intelligence confirmed the shooter was aligned with Al-Sakar leader Majid Nassar, who the U.S. had captured days earlier. Kirkman expressed his agitation with military intelligence continuing to fail to extract information from Nassar, causing Central Intelligence Agency director James Carrera to suggest removing him from American soil to a black site for enhanced interrogation, which Kirkman rejected. He subsequently ordered the CIA to turn Nassar over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, giving them 24 hours to extract intelligence before he would reevaluate and consider another option.
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