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Anna Makanju, 2003
Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation ^ | 2003 | Staff

Posted on 10/18/2020 6:31:30 AM PDT by ptsal

Anna Adeola Makanju is currently working on content regulation at Facebook. Previously, she was the Special Policy Advisor for Europe and Eurasia to Vice President Biden, and prior to that she was the Senior Policy Advisor to the Permanent Representative at the United States Mission to the United Nations. She also was the Director for Russia at the National Security Council and the Chief of Staff for European and NATO Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Anna was born in St. Petersburg, Russia to a Nigerian father and Ukrainian mother. When Anna was 11 years old, her family moved to Germany, then Phoenix, then Kuwait - where they lived until the beginning of the Persian Gulf War - and finally to Texas.

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KEYWORDS: facebook; russia; soros; ukraine
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Anna entered Western Washington University when she was 16 years old and graduated with a BA in linguistics and French, spending her final year studying at the University of Nantes, France. After working for Chef Tom Douglas in Seattle, she went on to study law at Stanford University.

Following law school, Anna worked on the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and clerked for Judge Theodore McKee on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Following her clerkship, she worked in the international arbitration group of Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP. She left her position at Cleary Gottlieb to work as a field organizer for the Obama for America campaign and joined the Obama administration in 2009.

Another field organizer....Yikes.

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1 posted on 10/18/2020 6:31:30 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: ptsal; bitt; ransomnote; generally; Liz

Connecting the dots from the Ukraine to DNC to Facebook.


2 posted on 10/18/2020 6:32:41 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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Citizen? Green Card? H1B? J1? Dreamer?


3 posted on 10/18/2020 6:34:13 AM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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Soldiers in the war against America.


4 posted on 10/18/2020 6:37:07 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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Another half-black radical Leftist with a chip on her shoulder against all white people and all conservatives.


5 posted on 10/18/2020 6:41:47 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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She was a field organizer for the Obama for America campaign and joined the Obama administration in 2009.

I'd like to be a fly on the wall when these people wake up to the fact that any connections
to Biden and Obama are now seen as extremely damaging.....and will get even more damaging.

6 posted on 10/18/2020 6:42:01 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Childhood   
https://www.chefsfeed.com/experts/4559-anna-makanju

Raised by her grandparents.


7 posted on 10/18/2020 6:42:06 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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Another work skill - Transciption  
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/04/gop-tries-connect-dots-biden-ukraine-comes-up-short/


8 posted on 10/18/2020 6:44:55 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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Spy? A while back I watched a video of a guy who used to be a Russian spy here in the US. He told of how he was recruited from college in Russia, trained for years before being sent to the US and learned to speak perfect accent free English from an American. I think he went thru 3 or 4 countries where he was given a new identity and employment in each one until he finally made it to the US....His history was virtually impossible to trace.

When he arrived in the US he was in his 30's and took his first job as a messenger in order to create a job history for his ultimate employer in D.C.

9 posted on 10/18/2020 6:45:56 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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Western Washington University. That’s all you needed to say. They turn out dyed-in-the-wool Socialists in droves, second only to The Evergreen State College (alma mater of St. Pancake, Rachel Corey).


10 posted on 10/18/2020 6:52:09 AM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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WA/PO: EXCERPT-—Emphasis added):

Anna Makanju, Biden’s senior policy adviser for Ukraine at the time, also listened to the calls and said release of the transcripts would only strengthen Biden’s case that he acted properly. (LOL)

She helped Biden prepare for the conversations and said they operated at a high level, with Biden using language such as Poroshenko’s government being “nation builders for a transformation of Ukraine.” (Cue laugh machine here)

A reference to a private company such as Burisma would be “too fine a level of granularity” for a call between Biden and the president of another country, Makanju told The Fact Checker.

Instead, she said, the conversation focused on Ukraine reforms demanded by the International Monetary Fund,
methods to tackle corruption and military assistance. (Just send the entire US Treasury to Ukraine.)

An investigation of “Burisma was just not significant enough” to mention, she said. (ROTFLOL)


11 posted on 10/18/2020 6:53:00 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Interesting resume.

No experience to qualify her for the high level Facebook job, except politics (or skin color).


12 posted on 10/18/2020 6:56:56 AM PDT by BeauBo
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Is she on the voter roll in California?


13 posted on 10/18/2020 7:09:34 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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Actually for the role at Facebook, which is not a “tech” job, should would seem to be qualified. The problem is that her “expertise” is as the person who directed the policy of the “alleged” corruption that is in focus right now.

She should have made a BIG deal about stepping back on decisions about this particular issue. Just like a judge would recuse themselves from a case where they had personal interests.

To the left, they are thinking this woman knows the area in question almost better than anyone else in the world.

It all depends on the context and direction from which you view the “issue.”


14 posted on 10/18/2020 7:13:40 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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...to Soros


15 posted on 10/18/2020 7:41:46 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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Bkmk


16 posted on 10/18/2020 7:47:21 AM PDT by kelly4c
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Just another home town girl recruited to be a “fact checker”’to keep America on the straight and narrow.


17 posted on 10/18/2020 8:10:39 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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Now Breitbart is digging into the story.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/18/facebook-content-regulation-manager-anna-makanju-advised-joe-biden-on-ukraine/


18 posted on 10/18/2020 1:20:05 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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she seems nice,...


19 posted on 10/18/2020 1:23:54 PM PDT by bitt (Well gosh, it is beginning to look like rock bottom had a basement to it)
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Great................


20 posted on 10/18/2020 1:24:10 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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