Report: New names for Foggy Bottom
Laura Rozen, former Cable author, gets some news on State Department appointments in the works: Victoria Nuland, the former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and wife of neoconservative writer Robert Kagan, is in the final stages of vetting for a senior State Department position, administration sources say. Nuland, a career Foreign Service Officer who served as ...
Laura Rozen, former Cable author, gets some news on State Department appointments in the works:
Laura Rozen, former Cable author, gets some news on State Department appointments in the works:
Victoria Nuland, the former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and wife of neoconservative writer Robert Kagan, is in the final stages of vetting for a senior State Department position, administration sources say. Nuland, a career Foreign Service Officer who served as principal deputy national security advisor to former Vice President Dick Cheney, and who worked in the Clinton administration as chief of staff to Strobe Talbott on nuclear disarmament issues, has spent the past year at the National Defense University. She didn’t immediately respond to a query.
Reuben Brigerty, who was set to join the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) last month as the director of the development and security initiative, will instead become a DAS in the State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, reporting to Assistant Secretary Eric Schwartz, POLITICO has confirmed. Brigerty, a former lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, is an expert on post-conflict reconstruction, previously affiliated with the Center for American Progress.
Anne Witkowsky, a former Clinton-era NSC director, is scheduled to come on board shortly as a deputy to Dan Benjamin, the State Department Coordinator for Counter Terrorism. Witkowsky and Benjamin were previously colleagues at CSIS. Benjamin, a former Clinton-era NSC official, is expected to bring on three more senior advisors in the coming weeks.
And more State Department press office news, as department sources say spokesman Robert Wood is under consideration to become deputy chief of mission at one of the U.S. missions in Vienna or Brussels (U.S.-EU). (Wood didn’t respond to a query.)
Wood would become the second State Department spokesman in a row to be deployed to Europe. The White House announced the nomination of Ian Kelly to be America’s representative to the OSCE yesterday.
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