23 Nov 2020 3:07 pm
Joe Biden names picks for secretary of State, Homeland Security chief, director of national intelligence.
President-elect Joe Biden announced his intended nominees for top national security positions Monday.
Longtime Biden advisor Antony Blinken is nominated to be secretary of State, and Jake Sullivan, a former top aide to Hillary Clinton and Biden, is chosen to be national security advisor.
Biden said he will nominate Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the Department of Homeland Security, the first immigrant and first Latino to do so, and he will nominate Avril Haines as the first woman to be director of national intelligence.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/23/joe-bid ... state.html
The professionals are running things again.
Antony John Blinken is an American government official who served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State from 2015 to 2017 and Deputy National Security Advisor from 2013 to 2015 under President Barack Obama.
Jake Sullivan is an American government official who was previously senior policy advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential election campaign, with expertise in foreign policy, and Deputy Chief of Staff at the Department of State.
Alejandro N. Mayorkas is a Cuban-American lawyer who served as the Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security from December 23, 2013 to October 31, 2016.
Avril Danica Haines is an American lawyer and former government official who served as the White House Deputy National Security Advisor in Barack Obama's administration.
She previously served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the first woman to hold this position.
President-elect Joe Biden announced his intended nominees for top national security positions Monday.
Longtime Biden advisor Antony Blinken is nominated to be secretary of State, and Jake Sullivan, a former top aide to Hillary Clinton and Biden, is chosen to be national security advisor.
Biden said he will nominate Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the Department of Homeland Security, the first immigrant and first Latino to do so, and he will nominate Avril Haines as the first woman to be director of national intelligence.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/23/joe-bid ... state.html
The professionals are running things again.
Antony John Blinken is an American government official who served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State from 2015 to 2017 and Deputy National Security Advisor from 2013 to 2015 under President Barack Obama.
Jake Sullivan is an American government official who was previously senior policy advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential election campaign, with expertise in foreign policy, and Deputy Chief of Staff at the Department of State.
Alejandro N. Mayorkas is a Cuban-American lawyer who served as the Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security from December 23, 2013 to October 31, 2016.
Avril Danica Haines is an American lawyer and former government official who served as the White House Deputy National Security Advisor in Barack Obama's administration.
She previously served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the first woman to hold this position.