Avril Haines to Be Deputy National Security Adviser
The Washington Post reports:
Avril D. Haines will become deputy to national security adviser Susan E.
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The Washington Post reports:
Avril D. Haines will become deputy to national security adviser Susan E. Rice, returning to the White House just 18 months after she left to be CIA Director John Brennan’s second in command, administration officials said Thursday. Haines will succeed Antony Blinken, confirmed by the Senate this week as deputy secretary of state. The musical chairs among the administration’s senior national security aides comes as President Obama positions himself for his last two years in office, faced with an overflow of world crises and a Republican-controlled Congress determined to check his policy-making power.
Wells C. Bennett was Managing Editor of Lawfare and a Fellow in National Security Law at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to Brookings, he was an Associate at Arnold & Porter LLP.
