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Biden Appoints Former Obama Official to Key Role in National Security Council President Joe Biden has appointed lawyer Maher Bitar to be the National Security Council’s senior director for intelligence programs. Bitar has served as general counsel to Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee and as a top legal adviser to its chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) since 2017. “I am thrilled to see him in his new post, though we will certainly miss him on the committee,” Schiff told Politico. “I can’t think of anyone more suited to the role than Maher.” In 2020, Bitar played a ma...

Biden appoints Palestinian-American as senior intelligence director US President-elect Joe Bide in US on 10 March 2020 [Kyle Mazza/Anadolu Agency] January 25, 2021 at 4:27 pm US President Joe Biden has appointed Palestinian-American Maher Bitar as the senior director for intelligence programmes at the National Security Council (NSC), Politico newspaper reported. Bitar served as general counsel to Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee and played a huge role in former President Donald Trump's first impeachment. "I am thrilled to see him in his new post, though we will certainly mis...

Maher Bitar (c) with his wife, daughter, and former boss, Sept. 21, 2015. President Joe Biden on Friday appointed Palestinian-American attorney Maher al-Bitar, who served on President Barack Obama’s National Security Council as Director for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs and as deputy to Samantha Power, to be the new director of the NSC intelligence service. Politico, which broke the news, described Al-Bitar’s new job as “the day-to-day connective tissue between the intelligence community and the White House.” A graduate of Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign ...

Will Myanmar Take Back Rohingya Refugees or is This The Start of a Long Process? Published January 20th, 2021 - 12:17 GMT Myanmar's minority rohingya people wait in a queue to receive tram at Balukhali rohingya camp, Ukhiya in Coz's Bazar Bangladesh on September 25, 2017. (Shutterstock/ File Photo) Highlights Tripartite meeting facilitated by China also agrees to keep global community in Rakhine State during repatriation. Myanmar agreed to calls by Bangladesh at a tripartite meeting facilitated by China to start the much-awaited repatriation of Rohingya in the second quarter of this yea...

Myanmar Agrees To Start Taking Back Rohingya This Year Tripartite meeting facilitated by China also agrees to keep global community in Rakhine State during repatriation. Myanmar agreed to calls by Bangladesh at a tripartite meeting facilitated by China to start the much-awaited repatriation of Rohingya in the second quarter of this year, officials said Tuesday. Bangladesh pushed hard to begin the repatriation, but Myanmar again delayed it, seeking time for logistical arrangements. "We pushed to initiate the repatriation in the first ...