US President Joe Biden is appointing former Obama administration officials to his administration’s National Security Council and State Department. Many of these people played a special role in achieving prosperity.
Foreign Policy wrote in a report referring to the recent appointments of Joe Biden in the National Security Council and the State Department: US President-elect Joe Biden is appointing Obama administration officials in the National Security Council and his State Department, which is the intention of the government. He reflects on experienced diplomats and experts.
These appointments reflect the Biden administration’s priorities on issues such as the endangered nuclear deal with Iran, global health issues following the Corona virus epidemic, climate change, and the long-standing challenges posed by Russia.
Appointments at senior State Department levels require congressional approval, which should be much easier given the victory of the two Democratic candidates in the second round of the Senate election in Georgia. The victory of the two candidates gave Biden a slight lead in the Senate. On Friday, Biden also unveiled a 21-member list for membership in the National Security Council, including the post of regional director, which is by far the largest list of national security options in the next administration.
Here are some of the highlights from the new national security team:
Wendy Sherman, Deputy Secretary of State
Foreign policy officials have confirmed that Sherman, the former top negotiator in the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran, will become the second-highest-ranking US diplomat if approved by the Senate. Sherman is an experienced State Department staffer with a background in North Korea, along with Madeleine.
Albright is the first US Secretary of State in the Clinton administration to visit Pyongyang. He questioned President Donald Trump’s strategy on both the Iran-North Korea case and said the White House was overly optimistic about nuclear talks with Kim Jong Un. In an interview with The New Yorker, he asked, “For God’s sake, is it possible to verify or monitor North Korea’s activities flawlessly?” Sherman led the nuclear talks with North Korea until 2001. Pyongyang at the time promised not to produce missiles capable of hitting US soil.
But Sherman, like other longtime candidates, is likely to face opposition because of his long tenure in the administration, especially regarding the Obama administration’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, which bypassed Congress and replaced it. The approval of the agreement in the form of a treaty in the Senate was treated as an executive agreement.
Victoria Nuland Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs Former Secretary of State Nuland, who has served as the Obama administration’s envoy to Europe and as State Department spokesman, will become the third senior State Department official. The news of his candidacy, like the news of Sherman’s candidacy, was published by Politico and the New York Times, although no official announcement has been made yet.Nuland played a key role in shaping the US response to the Ukrainian revolution of 2013 and 2014, with Russia invading the country and annexing parts of the country. Nuland became famous when the Russian intelligence service recorded and published part of his phone call with Jeffrey Piat, the then US ambassador to Ukraine, in 2014. “Damn the European Union,” he said during the phone call. This sparked tensions between the United States and its European allies, even as the United States struggled to respond to rising tensions in Ukraine. Nuland is a staunch opponent of Russia, and his election suggests that the Biden administration will not give up its years-long US-European struggle to isolate Moscow diplomatically and through sanctions.
Amanda Slot, Senior Director for Europe at the National Security Council.
Slut is a researcher at the Brookings Institution and a former European affairs diplomat in the Obama administration, an expert on Atlantic affairs and issues such as US-Turkey relations. His appointment, along with several others, could indicate that the Biden government will not stop criticizing the Turkish government for its actions in Syria and for undermining democratic institutions.
Andre Kendall Taylor, Senior Director for Russia and Central Asia at the National Security Council
Kendall Taylor is a former senior US intelligence official, an expert on European affairs, dictatorships, and in particular the Russian lie machine, a machine that the Kremlin has used very effectively, especially over the past four years. In the Trump administration, the responsibilities of Europe and Eurasia, including Russia, were merged into one position, with Fiona Hill, a well-known expert on Russian affairs. One of Biden’s campaign advisers, who did not want to be named, said the split reflected Biden’s special emphasis on Russia, apart from the wider European issues.
John Finner, Deputy National Security Advisor
Feyner, a former journalist and one of Obama’s appointees, is set to become the second senior member of the National Security Council. When Biden was vice president, Finner wrote his speeches, and Anthony Blinken, then senior adviser to the national security adviser. Blinken himself is Biden’s choice for secretary of state. Feiner was also the director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning and Administration in the Obama administration. Finner is one of 12 Obama administration officials who immediately condemned Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate deal, saying at the time that Trump’s move threatened “American security and prosperity.”
– Brett McGurk, National Security Council Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa.
The report goes on to say that McGurk, Trump’s special envoy to the anti-ISIS coalition, was chosen to lead the White House in Middle East and North Africa. Mecca helped form an anti-ISIS coalition that eventually involved more than 90 countries. He resigned in protest of Trump’s announcement of a full US withdrawal from Syria in December 2018, although the decision to withdraw was later reversed. McGurk’s appointment marks the Biden administration’s tougher policy toward Turkey, which has backed the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and strongly criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policy toward Syria, describing it as a plan to expand Turkey’s borders. has done. If McGurk is appointed to the Biden administration, he has served in all four previous administrations.
– Sasha Baker Senior Director of Strategic Planning, National Security Council
Baker, a former national security adviser to Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, is one of the most prominent progressives in Democratic foreign policy. Baker played a key role in shaping Warren’s foreign policy platform during his failed candidacy in the 2020 Democratic primary. Warren has been a vocal critic of US relations with Saudi Arabia, including US military support for the Saudi-led coalition war in Yemen.
-Elizabeth Cameron, Senior Director of Global Health Security and Biosecurity National Security Council
Cameron holds a doctorate in biology and served in the Obama administration in the State Department and Department of Defense, then helped establish the Department of Global Health Security and Biosecurity in the National Security Council. The Trump administration has merged the National Security Council with other branches of the National Security Council in an effort to downsize and streamline its structure. His appointment means re-emphasizing the issue of preparedness and response to the Crohn’s virus epidemic.
Juan Gonzalez, Senior Director for the Western Hemisphere, National Security Council
Gonzalez, a senior adviser to Biden on Latin American affairs during his campaign, was a former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs in the Obama administration. Gonzalez will inherit a clumsy policy toward Latin America, as the Trump administration’s efforts to oust Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro have stalled and the country’s economic and political collapse has sparked a massive humanitarian and asylum crisis. Another challenge facing Gonzalez is how to manage the turbulent US relationship with Cuba. The president-elect apparently intends to lift Trump-era sanctions and travel bans and work to normalize relations with the Cuban government, but is likely to face significant opposition from Republicans in Congress.
– Somuna Guha, Director of East Asia at the National Security Council
Goha is a former foreign service agent who was part of Jake Sullivan’s policy planning staff at the Obama administration. He worked on issues related to Afghanistan and Pakistan during a turbulent period when relations between Washington and Islamabad were deeply strained. With the Trump administration facing a self-inflicted deadline for the withdrawal of half of US troops from Afghanistan before the day of the inauguration, Goa will help monitor the start of new relations between Washington and Kabul – especially if peace talks with the Taliban continue. Because the Biden administration hopes to eventually shift the US focus to confronting China. The continuation of the process of reviving the so-called “Quartet” partnership of the United States, which includes Japan, Australia, and India is also discussed.
– William Burns, head of the CIA
The Washington Examiner also wrote in a report: Joe Biden, the former head of the secret negotiations team behind the scenes with Iran, was chosen to lead the CIA.
Joe Biden was chosen to lead the CIA, leading secretly “behind-the-scenes” talks with the Iranian regime while reaching a nuclear deal with Iran. The appointment reflects the former vice president’s continued commitment to rejoining the controversial deal the Trump administration abandoned in 2018.
William Burns, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has served as US Ambassador to Jordan and Russia. He also held a number of other important State Department positions, including Deputy Secretary of State from 2011 to 2014. In 2019, Burns wrote a book called “Behind the Scenes: A Memory of American Diplomacy,” which included a full chapter on “Iran and the Bomb: Secret Negotiations.”
“While the Democrats ‘victory in the Senate may have given Biden more leeway over other options, the Democratic Senate will in practice limit his options as CIA director because of the candidates’ statements,” Foreign Policy concluded. And their connection to the CIA’s controversial plans, such as torture and drone strikes, will be closely scrutinized by the Democratic Progressive Party. “Some of the people in question may be restricted or removed because it will be harder to accept them,” said Larry Pfeiffer, a former chief of staff to former CIA director Michael Hayden.
