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“Bitt, was SH decoded?”

Can I propose one Stephen Hadley? Nothing directly on him as it relates to the Q post, that I can see, but he is a swamp dweller.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1175400

On January 26, 2005, he replaced Condoleezza Rice as National Security Advisor, upon Rice’s confirmation as Secretary of State. In that capacity he was the principal White House foreign policy advisor to President Bush, directed the National Security Council staff, and ran the interagency national security policy development and execution process.[6]

In 2013, Hadley was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.[19]

During the Syrian chemical weapons crisis in September 2013, Hadley appeared on Bloomberg Television, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and also wrote an op-ed piece for the Washington Post in which he advocated attacking Syria with missiles. At the time, Hadley was a director at Raytheon and owned 11,477 shares of stock, but the news organizations failed to disclose the link and conflict of interest.[21][22]

Hadley was initially floated as a potential option for Secretary of Defense in the Trump Administration.[23] In this as well as for other positions, it was thought his process knowledge could be beneficial.[24] Instead, in late 2016 he collaborated with Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on a plan for a new course in America’s approach to the Middle East.[25]

Hadley is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[26] He has been a member of the Defense Policy Board, the Foreign Affairs Policy Board, the National Security Advisory Panel to the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Board of Trustees of Analytical Services (”ANSER”).

Hadley is also an Executive Vice Chair on the Board of Directors at the Atlantic Council[27] and is on the Board of Directors at defense contractor Raytheon.[28]