BREAKING: Official says US envoy for anti-Islamic State coalition, Brett McGurk, has quit; more fallout from Trump’s Syria pullout.
Brett H. McGurk (born April 20, 1973) is an American diplomat who was appointed by President Barack Obama on 23 October 2015 as Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL.
He replaced General John R. Allen to whom he had been a deputy since 16 September 2014. He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran, at the U.S. Department of State, and from October 2014 through January 2016 led 14 months of secret negotiations with Iran that led to a prisoner swap and release of four Americans from Evin Prison in Tehran, including the Washington Post journalist, Jason Rezaian. This assignment, among others, reinforced McGurk’s “reputation as a doer”, according to the NY Times.
He earlier served under President George W. Bush as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan, and under President Obama as Special Advisor to the U.S. National Security Council and Senior Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. Mr. McGurk served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist on the U.S. Supreme Court during the Court’s 2001 October Term. On January 19, 2017, President-Elect Donald Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer announced that the incoming administration would retain McGurk in his role leading the counter-ISIS campaign.
On December 22, 2018, McGurk announced his resignation from his post amidst President Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_H._McGurk
Maybe not such a bad thing.
He was great as Don Imus' sidekick