Sentences with phrase «former national ambassador»

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Trump fired Comey unexpectedly, one day after Yates — who was fired by Trump in January after refusing to enforce his first immigration order — testified before Congress that she had warned the White House about former national security adviser Michael Flynn's contact with Russia's ambassador to the US during the transition.

Another factor in the mix has been Trump's pick to replace H.R. McMaster as national security advisor: John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

He also addressed the issue of the «unmasking» of US persons caught up in surveillance of monitored foreign agents — the process by which it was revealed that former national security adviser Michael Flynn had been speaking with Russia's ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, during the presidential transition period.

Senate confirmation is not required for the White House national security post, and Bolton, a former ambassador to the United Nations, will inherit a staff of several hundred specialists from the Pentagon, State Department and U.S. intelligence agencies.

Such was the case with Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser whose communications with Sergey Kislyak, who until last summer was Russia's ambassador to the US, were incidentally collected as part of routine intelligence - gathering while the US monitored Kislyak.

As of late, he has come under fire for his firing of FBI director James Comey, his alleged sharing of guarded intelligence about ISIS with the Russian foreign minister, and allegations that Trump obstructed justice by asking Comey not to look into his former National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, who Trump has since fired for misrepresenting talks he had with Russian ambassador Sergei Kisylak.

The former national security adviser Michael Flynn has been charged with making false statements to federal investigators about his conversations last December with Russia's ambassador to the US at the time, Sergey Kislyak.

Netflix's board now includes Susan Rice, the former United Nations ambassador and National Security Advisor under President Barack Obama.

The firm also secured hundreds of thousands of dollars of business with John Bolton's Super Pac, formed by the hawkish former UN ambassador to support conservative candidates campaigning on national security issues.

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Former national security adviser Michael Flynn confirmed Friday that he is cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller, after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about two conversations he had with the Russian ambassador in the weeks before President Trump took office.

Flynn, who was Trump's national security adviser for 24 days and was also a top campaign adviser, has admitted to lying to the FBI about two of his conversations with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016.

The former national security adviser pleads guilty to lying about two conversations with the Russian ambassador.

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Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

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K. T. McFarland, the former Fox News commentator appointed by Trump as deputy national security adviser and a onetime Senate candidate in New York, is expected to leave her administration position soon and may be nominated to be the United States ambassador to Singapore.

A former spokesman for the Goodluck Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani - Kayode, has said that the suspended Director - General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ambassador...

The firm also secured hundreds of thousands of dollars of business with John Bolton's Super Pac, formed by the hawkish former UN ambassador to support conservative candidates campaigning on national security issues.

A former spokesman for the Goodluck Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani - Kayode, has said that the suspended Director - General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ambassador Ayo Oke did not spend any money on the former President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation.

The United States, U.S, President, Donald Trump has replaced his National Security Adviser, Gen. Herbert McMaster, with former U.S Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton...

All of the announced candidates in the race, including Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus, former Michigan Republican Party chairman Saul Anuzis, former RNC official Maria Cino, former RNC political director Gentry Collins and former ambassador to Luxembourg Ann Wagner, are also slated to attend the Jan. 3 debate, which will be held at the National Press Club.

The PDP had dragged the INEC and former Resident Electoral Commissioner, Ambassador Rufus Akeju before the court seeking a reversal of all actions taken by Akeju as REC after an earlier order of March 28th 2011, given by the same court which restrained him from conducting the 2011 elections to National Assembly as well as State House of Assembly.

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If President Donald Trump taps John Bolton as his next national security adviser, the former U.N. ambassador will be forced to reckon with the fate of his political empire, which includes a super PAC that has spent heavily on the services of embattled voter profiling company Cambridge Analytica.

Onetime new York U.S. Senate candidate K.T. McFarland, former deputy national security advisor to Trump, asked the president to withdraw her long - stalled nomination to be Ambassador to Singapore.

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn said he didn't talk about sanctions on Russia when he spoke with the country's U.S. ambassador late last year.

Trump is expected to choose as director of national intelligence two - time Sen. Dan Coats, a former ambassador to Germany, secret foodie and lover of all things Indiana who also served as a member of his chamber's Intelligence Committee.

President Trump's former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. about conversations with the Russian ambassador last December during the presidential transition, bringing the special counsel's investigation into the president's inner circle.

President Donald Trump has removed H.R. McMaster as his national security advisor, replacing him with former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton, who is viewed as a hawk on many issues.

Also at 6 p.m., the Metropolitan Republican Club holds its Annual Met Dinner, honoring former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, Women's National Republican Club, 3 W 51st St., Manhattan.

German Ambassador To Nigeria, Mr. Bernard Schlagbeck (left) in a handshake with Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu during the former's official visit to INEC Headquarters on 25th October, 2017.

On allegations levelled against the suspended Director - General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke, in which he claimed that former President Goodluck Jonathan approved the sum of $ 289m to his agency in February 2015, Okogie asked Oke to make the claims to the ex-president's face.

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Ambassador Carl Spielvogel shared a table on the opposite side of the dining room from City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Democratic National Committee member Robert Zimmerman.

The committee set up to investigate the suspended Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke, and the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, has shelved plans to invite former President Goodluck Jonathan, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton is backing a rising generation of House Republican national security hawks who are facing primary races in 2016, his political action committee told the Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday.

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Also in April, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was replaced by CIA director Mike Pompeo and John Bolton, a former ambassador to the U.N., was named as the administration's third national security adviser.

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Today Trump tweeted that General H.R. McMaster will step down as John Bolton, a deeply controversial former U.S. ambassador, steps into the role of national security advisor.

Harris worked for John Bolton's super-PAC, which was attempting to bring more attention to national - security issues in three select Senate races ahead of a prospective presidential campaign by the hawkish former UN ambassador.