Biden said on a Wednesday that Kahl and Kathleen Hicks, his nominee for undersecretary of defense, “had the great joy and trial tested in crisis to help fulfill the litany of demanding situations we face today, and all of which we could face tomorrow. . “
“They will be partners for me, the vice president-elect and the appointed secretary Austin, as well as our committed civilian and military team, as we work to repair the guilty American leadership on the world stage,” Biden said.
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Kahl would be “honoured” to lead and “strengthen” the Department of Defense in a tweet on Wednesday.
“My first task in government as an action officer in OSD policy and then DASD. I know how much politicians paint every day to keep America safe,” he wrote.
Former national security adviser to President Obama’s security team who worked on fighting possible Russian interference before the 2016 presidential election, according to an excerpt from the e-book “Russian Roulette: The Internal History of Putin’s War in the United States and the Election of Donald Trump. “””
Kahl was one of 10 other people who was called in 2018 by the then chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, to testify before Congress about the Russia investigation and surveillance abuses imaginable in the Trump campaign.
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Obama’s former official criticized the House Intelligence Committee Republican Memorandum of Republicans accusing the government of abusing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 2018, as shown by several of his tweets, as the Washington Examiner first reported.
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, in a 2019 report, decided that the FBI had complied with the policy by publishing the Russia investigation, but reported at least 17 “significant inaccuracies and omissions” in FISA programs to monitor crusader adviser Trump Carter Page and said he would launch a new audit in the FISA process.
Kahl retwented in 2017 a “mega cable” by Newsweek columnist Seth Abramson, promoting Russian collusion theories he called “intriguing” and “worthy of a look. “
Obama’s adviser tweeted in March 2017 that “Trump’s non-secular account [T] channeled anxiety into #RussiaGate” because the Steele case was “touching. “However, he admitted before this month that “there was no public data to show collusion. between the Trump team and Russia’s campaign,” however, he added that some main points still seemed “strange. “
The FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team investigating trump’s 2016 crusade has gained evidence that former British spy Christopher Steele, one of his key informants in his lecivol case investigation, was part of an elaborate “Russian disinformation crusade,” according to several declassified footnotes in April, according to Horowitz’s report.
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In September 2017, Kahl tweeted that “Steele’s Trump-Russia case remains well,” and mentioned an editorial through John Sipher, a former member of the CIA’s Senior Intelligence Service.
He said in 2018 that House Intelligence Standing Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s reaction to the Nunes memo “is a devastating rebuttal to Nunes and his insane staff, and that is VERY damaging to Page. “
Kalh’s other tweets between 2017 and 2019 to advance the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, as reported through the Washington Examiner.
Special counsel John Durham is lately investigating the origins of the Russia investigation and “is making progress,” Attorney General William Barr said last week before leaving management on December 23.
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Barr has appointed Durham, the U. S. attorney for Connecticut, to ensure that his investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation can continue under the next administration.
Gregg Re and Brooke Singman of Fox News contributed to the report.