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The Department of Homeland Security has reinstituted its independent advisory council, nearly a year after Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas dissolved the existing council, ousting a board of independent advisers that included Trump-era officials.
The new council will be made up of 33 new members, including former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, General Motors CEO Mary Barra and Kids in Need of Defense President Wendy Young.
Other members include: CEO of Girls Who Code Tarika Barrett, Chobani founder and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby, immediate past president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives Lynda R. Williams and former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
"We have policy leaders in different areas, cabinet members from both parties. This is a nonpartisan collection of experts, from whom I will obtain advice, with whom I will share ideas," Mayorkas told CNN.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dhs-relaunches-independent-council-after-ousting-trump-era-officials-last-year/ar-AAVcKS3
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)MICHAEL CHERTOFF?
Co-author of the USA PATRIOT ACT. That guy?
Am I missing something here besides the "bi-partisan" part?
Ok, just color me very skeptical and extremely po'd!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)That fuck should not be within 500 miles of a government position.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Served "Dubya"! This is not ok, it reeks!!
He should be living on a deserted island somewhere, nowhere!!!
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grumpyduck
(6,278 posts)jxla
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The new members of the Secretarys Advisory Council include former Cabinet Secretaries from both Democratic and Republican administrations; chief executive officers from the technology, energy, transportation, financial, food and consumer products, and venture capital industries; executive leaders of national law enforcement organizations; Presidents and CEOs of non-profit organizations dedicated to human rights, government accountability, and community security and empowerment; leaders of nonpartisan policy institutes; and other leading professionals.
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Secretary Mayorkas has appointed the following individuals to the HSAC:
Jayson Ahern, Principal, The Chertoff Group
John Allen, President, The Brookings Institution
Dmitri Alperovitch, Co-Founder and Chairman, Silverado Policy Accelerator
Marc Andreessen, Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, Chairwoman, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah
Mary Barra, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, General Motors Company
Tarika Barrett, Chief Executive Officer, Girls Who Code
Noah Bookbinder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
Safra Catz, Chief Executive Officer, Oracle Corporation
Catherine Chen, Chief Executive Officer, Polaris
Michael Chertoff, Former Secretary of DHS and Co-Founder, The Chertoff Group
Carrie Cordero, Senior Fellow & General Counsel, Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
Lynn Good, Chair, President & Chief Executive Officer, Duke Energy
Jamie Gorelick, Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP
Danielle Gray, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Legal Officer, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.
Jane Harman, Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita, The Woodrow Wilson Center
Robert Isom, Incoming Chief Executive Officer, American Airlines
Carie Lemack, Co-Founder, Zed Factor Fellowship
Scott Kirby, Chief Executive Officer, United Airlines Holdings, Inc.
Michael Masters, National Director & Chief Executive Officer, Secure Community Network
Brian Moynihan, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America
Janet Murguía, President and Chief Executive Officer, UnidosUS
Leon Panetta, Former Secretary of Defense and Chairman, The Panetta Institute for Public Policy
Ted Schlein, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins and Executive Chairman, Ballistic Ventures
Sonal Shah, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Network Operations, United Way Worldwide, and Founding President, The Asian American Foundation
Ali Soufan, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, The Soufan Group, LLC
Todd Stern, Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Vincent Talucci, Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer, International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)
Jonathan Thompson, Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer, National Sheriffs Association
Hamdi Ulukaya, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Chobani, LLC
Lynda R. Williams, Immediate Past President, National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE)
Patrick Yoes, National President, Fraternal Order of Police
Wendy Young, President, Kids In Need of Defense (KIND)
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Speechless and will say no more.