Biden Will Nominate First Woman to Lead Intelligence, First Latino to Run Homeland Security

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: New York Times


Avril Haines, a former deputy C.I.A. director and deputy national security adviser, would be the highest-ranking woman to serve in the intelligence community. Credit...Stefani Reynolds/Alamy

WASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. plans to name several top national security picks on Tuesday, his transition office said, including the first Latino to lead the Department of Homeland Security, the first woman to head the intelligence community and a former secretary of state, John Kerry, to be his climate czar.

At an event in Wilmington, Del., Mr. Biden will announce plans to nominate Alejandro Mayorkas to be his secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, his transition office said, and Avril Haines to be his director of national intelligence. He intends to name Mr. Kerry as a special presidential envoy on climate. The transition office also confirmed reports on Sunday night that Mr. Biden will nominate Antony J. Blinken to be secretary of state and Jake Sullivan as national security adviser.

Mr. Biden will also nominate Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be ambassador to the United Nations and restore the job to cabinet-level status, giving Ms. Thomas-Greenfield, an African-American woman, a seat on his National Security Council. Mr. Kerry will also be given a seat on the council, although his job is not a cabinet position and does not require Senate confirmation.

The emerging team reunites a group of former senior officials from the Obama administration, most of whom worked closely together at the State Department and the White House and in several cases have close ties to Mr. Biden dating back years. They are well known to foreign diplomats around the world and share a belief in the core principles of the Democratic foreign policy establishment — international cooperation, strong U.S. alliances and leadership but a wariness of foreign interventions after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.


Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/us/politics/biden-nominees.html

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Qualified people to do the job versus LOYAL LACKIES

POTUS-Elect Biden is already showing his chops that Trump has lacked. Putting together an expert A-Team will clen up things fast, the world will be a safer place, and respect for the United States as a Leader will be restored.

Let Trump stew, piss and moan, at Biden doing the job we elected him to do.

[CatMor]

2. Great news ...

we will have experienced people running the country again. January 20th can't come soon enough.

[orwell]

3. What...

...no relatives? Grifters? Con Artists? White Supremacists? Lobbyists?

What's the world coming to?

[Etherealoc1]

4. John Kerry

Would have preferred someone who represents the youth vote. They showed up at the polls in a big way.

[Lonestarblue]

5. Kerry has a lot of contacts around the world.

The climate crisis is a global affair and his contacts and his stature as a former Secretary of State will be useful. But I hear you and agree that we need to recognize and reward younger voters. Perhaps Kerry can appoint someone in this category as a lead negotiator.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. I have a feeling that since he put so much time and effort in the Iran Nuclear Treaty

that he is being tapped to re-work some of the climate treaties - notably getting us back into the Paris Accord and possibly getting them to renegotiate that to be more effective.

[Etherealoc1]

7. Sounds

like a good compromise.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Experience matters

Kerry has stood strong on these issues for 20 years or more

[onetexan]

8. Alejandro Mayorkas is the 1st Latino to lead Homeland Security

WOW!!!! Poetic justice!!
This is being reported right now on MSNBC.

[demmiblue]

10. Wow, a cabinet that actually looks like our country.

[PoliticAverse]

11. Article from July on Haines...

The Proxy War Over a Top Biden Adviser

Deputy CIA Director Avril Haines restricted drone strikes and helped thousands of refugees, but enraged the left over torture. What does her rise mean for a Biden presidency?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-proxy-war-over-joe-biden-adviser-avril-haines

[List left]

12. What does "More liberal than left" mean? nt

[PoliticAverse]

13. I think the implication is that "liberal" is to the right of "left"...

(and "left" is to the left of "liberal&quot .

[hibbing]

14. What reality shows are these people from?

Or how are they related to Joe Biden?

Peace

[Fiendish Thingy]

15. Haines was the architect of Obama's drone war policy, so I'm not too excited. Nt