National Security Network’s Feldman to become Holbrooke deputy
Another member of the National Security Network is ascending to a position in the Obama administration. Daniel Feldman — a long-time Democratic national-security hand, former Clinton-era NSC official, and former aide to the presidential campaigns of Al Gore, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton — will take a job as one of two deputies working for ...
Another member of the National Security Network is ascending to a position in the Obama administration. Daniel Feldman -- a long-time Democratic national-security hand, former Clinton-era NSC official, and former aide to the presidential campaigns of Al Gore, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton -- will take a job as one of two deputies working for U.S. special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, The Cable has learned. Holbrooke's other deputy is Paul Jones. One of Feldman's primary tasks is expected to be coordinating with Congress.
Another member of the National Security Network is ascending to a position in the Obama administration. Daniel Feldman — a long-time Democratic national-security hand, former Clinton-era NSC official, and former aide to the presidential campaigns of Al Gore, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton — will take a job as one of two deputies working for U.S. special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, The Cable has learned. Holbrooke’s other deputy is Paul Jones. One of Feldman’s primary tasks is expected to be coordinating with Congress.
Feldman, now an attorney with Foley Hoag, serves on the board of the Democratic-leaning national security group, the National Security Network. Other NSN board members to have joined the administration include former Clinton and Bush-era NSC official Rand Beers, who is in the confirmation process to become under secretary of national programs at the Department of Homeland Security, former Clinton-era NSC Africa hand Gayle Smith, now the senior director for relief, stabilisation and development in Obama’s NSC, and academic and writer Rosa Brooks, who has become a principal advisor to the under secretary of defense for policy, Michele Flournoy.
Members of NSN’s advisory board who have joined the administration include Holbrooke, former Princeton Woodrow Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter, who is the State Department’s director of policy planning, and Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation Rose Gottemoeller.
Other NSN staffers to have joined the administration: Ilan Goldenberg, who has taken a job last month working in the Office of the Secretary of Defense policy shop advising on Iran, Israel, and Palestinian issues, and Moira Whelan, who serves as the deputy in the DHS office dealing with Gulf reconstruction projects.
"Help wanted," laughed NSN executive director Heather Hurlburt. (Feldman, who did not immediately respond to a query, is expected to start in about a month.)
"Holbrooke is going big, assembling a DC-based staff of 30 or so people, with ambitious plans to deploy staffers to every major Embassy around the world that has a potential role to play on Af/Pak," a Hill foreign-policy staffer told The Cable. "He is hiring young, hard chargers, Foreign Service Officers in their late 20s and early 30s who can work all the time."
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