President Barack Obama has nominated Shirley Woodward, a partner in law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP‘s litigation and controversy department for six years, to the inspector general post at the CIA inspector
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The Department of Homeland Security has named 33 new members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, a group providing advice to agency leadership on domestic and international topics. They will help the
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Rachel Jacobson, a special counsel at Washington, D.C.-based law firm WilmerHale, has been nominated by President Biden to serve as assistant secretary for Installations, Energy and Environment at the U.S. Army. She
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Alejandro Mayorkas, President Biden’s choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), recently discussed how he plans to support the department’s workforce. Mayorkas noted that he will work to provide DHS
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Deanne Criswell, who worked at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from 2011 to 2017, was nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to serve as administrator of FEMA. Biden also chose David Cohen,
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Robert Strayer, former general counsel for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has joined the State Department as deputy assistant secretary for cyber and international communications and information policy. Strayer will lead U.S.
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Robert Mueller, former FBI director, has been named by the Justice Department as a special counsel to lead an investigation into possible links between Russia and President Donald Trump’s campaign during the
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Stephen Preston — chairman of law firm WilmerHale defense, national security and government contracts practice — has been selected to join the White House’s Intelligence Advisory board. Obama announced an intent to appoint Preston for a membership in
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Stuart Delery serves as the U.S. acting associate attorney general, with responsibility in helping the attorney general and the deputy attorney general to implement departmental policies and programs. Delery leads the Justice
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The White House announced Friday that David Cohen, undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the Treasury Department, will be appointed as deputy director of CIA. He served as the Treasury’s assistant secretary for
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