Kenneth L. Wainstein
 Kenneth L. Wainstein    (lawyer, spook) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | Kenneth Leonard Wainstein 1962 | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Virginia, University of California Berkeley | |||||||||||
| Party | Republican | |||||||||||
Leader of Homeland Security Council, biodefense lobbyist
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Kenneth Leonard Wainstein is an American lawyer.[1] He served as the first Assistant Attorney General for National Security, and later as the Homeland Security Advisor to United States President George W. Bush.
Education
Wainstein is a graduate of the University of Virginia and earned his J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
Career
Wainstein worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as General Counsel and as Chief of Staff to the FBI Director. He was United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.
On September 26, 2006, he was sworn in as the Department of Justice's Assistant Attorney General responsible for National Security.[2]
Wainstein was appointed Homeland Security Advisor by President George W. Bush on March 30, 2008. He was also Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism and chaired the Homeland Security Council. He was appointed as the "National Continuity Coordinator" under the auspices of National Security Presidential Directive 51.[3]
Wainstein also serves as a member of the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense, a group that encourages and advocates changes to government policy to spend more money on biodefense.[4]
In October 2020, Wainstein signed a letter, along with 19 other Republican-appointed former U.S. Attorneys, calling President Donald Trump "a threat to the rule of law in our country" and endorsing Joe Biden.[5]
References
- ↑ http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2006/September/06_nsd_655.html
- ↑ https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/government/kwainstein-bio.html
- ↑ https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html
- ↑ http://www.biodefensestudy.org
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republican-us-attorneys-back-biden/2020/10/27/c1b55702-17fd-11eb-befb-8864259bd2d8_story.html
