Schiff Hires Ex-National Security Council Staff for Panel
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has hired former National Security Council staffers to work for him as he launches a sweeping new investigation into President Donald Trump’s finances and foreign connections.
Feb. 7, 2019 - By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press
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“Grace worked for a bipartisan think tank, Center for a New American Security, after working for both former President Barack Obama and Trump on the National Security Council from 2016 to 2018. She focused on Asia-Pacific security issues, according to a spokesman for the group.”
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McMaster: The Ultimate Holdover
by Jed Babbin
August 7, 2017, 12:05 AM <-——NOTE DATE
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President Trump’s first national security advisor, retired Army Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, didn’t last long enough to reform the NSC staff and rid it of the Obama loyalists. The holdovers from Rice’s staff, one source tells me, number in the dozens. Trump’s second advisor, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, has been there for months but hasn’t removed most of the Obama hirelings. Several dozen remain, many in positions of significant responsibility.
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There are four people in positions of responsibility in the NSC who have been identified by a source as people who had been “direct reports” to ***Rhodes*** — i.e., who worked under his direct supervision — who McMaster has protected and retained. They are: ***Abigail Grace (Special Assistant)***, Fernando Cutz (NSC Director for South America), Andrea Hall (NSC Senior Director for WMD, Terrorism & Threat Reduction), and Merry Lin (Director for Global and Asia Economics).
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https://spectator.org/mcmaster-the-ultimate-holdover/
“””Grace worked for a bipartisan think tank, Center for a New American Security”””
(Schiff hires Abigail Grace)
January 09, 2018
CNAS Names Victoria Nuland, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, as CEO; Robert O. Work, former Deputy Secretary of Defense, Rejoins CNAS as Senior Defense Counselor
By Victoria Nuland, and Robert O. Work
Washington, January 9 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Board of Directors has selected Victoria Nuland, the former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, as the Center’s new Chief Executive Officer.
Former Obama admin official linked to anti-Trump dossier to testify before Congress
By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times - Friday, June 15, 2018
Former State Department official Victoria Nuland, who reportedly connected FBI officials to the former British spy who wrote the infamous anti-Trump dossier, will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week.
Ms. Nuland, a longtime State Department official who served in the George W. Bush administration as the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, served during the Obama administration as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/15/victoria-nuland-linked-anti-trump-dossier-testify/