{"id":240580,"date":"2021-08-11T07:39:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T07:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=240580"},"modified":"2021-08-12T06:06:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T06:06:55","slug":"23-high-ranking-officials-in-biden-administration-all-came-from-the-same-shadowy-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=240580","title":{"rendered":"23 High-Ranking Officials in Biden Administration All Came from the Same Shadowy Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kyle Becker \u2013 beckernews.com July 6, 2021<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Many of the highest-ranking members of the Biden administration came from the same shadowy firm. It is a relatively new name among revolving-door power brokers in Washington D.C., which makes it all the more surprising.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2017, WestExec describes itself as a \u201cdiverse group of senior national security professionals with the most recent experience at the highest levels of the U.S. government. With deep knowledge and networks in the fields of defense, foreign policy, intelligence, cybersecurity, international economics, and strategic communications, our team has worked together around the White House Situation Room table, deliberating and deciding our nation\u2019s foreign and national security policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WestExec Advisors gets its name from \u201cWest Executive Avenue,\u201d which the official site says is \u201cthe closed street that runs between the West Wing of the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. It is, quite literally, the road to the Situation Room, and it is the road everyone associated with WestExec Advisors has crossed many times en route to meetings of the highest national security consequence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least we can rest easy that it hasn\u2019t been President Joe Biden who has been calling the shots. But a closer look at WestExec Advisers finds that it manages portfolios for some of the biggest companies in the world, drawing concerns about private companies co-opting U.S. security and intelligence policies. However, WestExec does not publicly disclose the names of its clients, only describing them in broad terms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe insularity of this network of policymakers poses concerns about the potential for groupthink, conflicts of interest, and what can only be called, however oxymoronically, legalized corruption,\u201d The Intercept\/American Prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/07\/06\/westexec-biden-administration\/\">noted<\/a> on WestExec\u2019s influence. \u201cThe private sector can in essence co-opt the public sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WestExec has staffed the administration with over 23 of its executives, who have sprawled out across the national security and intelligence apparatus. The Intercept and The American Prospect dug into these profiles, and some of the biggest names in government are among them, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State; Co-founder and managing partner of WestExec<\/li>\n<li>Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence; Principal<\/li>\n<li>David S. Cohen, Deputy Director at the CIA; Principal<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Monaco, Deputy Attorney General; Principal<\/li>\n<li>Chris Inglis, National Cyber Director; Principal<\/li>\n<li>Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary; Senior Adviser<\/li>\n<li>Ely Ratner, Asst. Sec. of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs; Senior Adviser<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/westexec-theintercept-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-240581\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/westexec-theintercept-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"625\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is an impressive list, as concerning as it might be that one security cabal could singlehandedly consolidate such influence in one presidential administration. But the list isn\u2019t finished yet.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colin Thomas-Jensen, National Security Director for USAID; Senior Adviser<\/li>\n<li>Michael Camilleri, Sr. Adviser to USAID Admin.; Senior Adviser<\/li>\n<li>Gabrielle Chefitz, Special Asst. to Under Sec. of Defense for Policy; Senior Associate<\/li>\n<li>Julianne Smith, Senior Adviser to Sec. of State; Senior Adviser<\/li>\n<li>Barbara Leaf, Senior Director for Middle East, NSC; Senior Adviser<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Rosenberg, Counselor to Deputy Sec. of Treasury; Senior Advisor<\/li>\n<li>Matt Olsen, Asst. Attorney General; Principal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_240582\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/westexec-theintercept-2-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240582\" class=\"wp-image-240582\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/westexec-theintercept-2-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"641\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-240582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These weren\u2019t all the Biden advisers and Biden\/Harris transition team members listed in the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe WestExec to Biden administration pipeline, part two. Not pictured: senior adviser to the domestic policy adviser Erin Pelton; director of scheduling for the secretary of state Sarah McCool; nominee for assistant secretary of defense Celeste Wallander; Biden-Harris transition team advisers Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Cristina Killingsworth, Jay Shambaugh, and Puneet Talwar; deputy director for the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission John Costello; and vice chair of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence Robert O. Work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Did you think that must be it? Wrong. There are even more in mid-tier positions throughout the administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven Bidenworld\u2019s backbenchers are entangled in the firm,\u201d the Intercept\/American Prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/07\/06\/westexec-biden-administration\/\">report<\/a> states. \u201cThe Biden-Harris transition team was advised by WestExec consultants Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Puneet Talwar, Jay Shambaugh, and Cristina Killingsworth. Further, the firm\u2019s members oversee influential nonpartisan federal commissions: Robert O. Work at the National Security Commission for Artificial Intelligence and John Costello at the Cyberspace Solarium Commission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That makes for at least thirty executives from one shadowy firm that has spread its tentacles around a single presidential administration. If that isn\u2019t a \u2018takeover\u2019 of the U.S. government, then what is?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beckernews.com\/new-23-list-40126\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the odds that 23 of the highest-ranking members of the Biden administration came from the same firm?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":240584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240580"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240588,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240580\/revisions\/240588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/240584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}