mark lippert
White House National Security Staffers Shift
Just released from the White House communications shop:
The White House today announced that Deputy National Security Director and National Security Council chief of staff Mark Lippert will be returning to active duty in the U.S. Navy. Denis McDonough will remain Deputy National Security Advisor and assume the role of chief of staff to the [...]
Jim Jones Keeps Getting Kufi Smacked
It seems that the dump-Jim-Jones-rumors wax and wane every few weeks. As April wound to a close, a couple stories went around about the national security adviser’s “problematic tenure,” but then they quieted, only to pick back up in early May before wearing themselves out. Here we are again: both Steve Clemons and Tom Ricks [...]
Sometimes, Jim Jones Gets Kufi Smacked
It’s been going around the foreign-policy interwebs for weeks: Jim Jones, the national security adviser, has what Laura Rozen called “a problematic tenure” at the National Security Council. Joe Klein was like, “I heard that too.” And if you talk to enough White House staffers, you hear that sort of gossip. I don’t know what [...]
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