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Aug 29, 2025, 76 tweets

Don't mind me, I'm going to take a look at all of these names on this list now, because that Julia Gurganus one is just ridiculous, being involved in the ICA.

Andrew Cedar, former National Security Council, is the Co-Chair of the Global Leadership Council at Seeds of Peace.

Married to Elizabeth Tunick, works at Smithsonian.

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Andrew P. Miller was on the National Security Council from 2014 to 2017, focused on Egypt and Israel. Former Carnegie.

Worked in the State Department on Israel-Palestine until he quit for family reasons. Story by John Hudson.

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Andrew P. Miller wrote a book, "Re-Engaging the Middle East: A New Vision For U.S. Policy", alongside Dafna H. Rand.

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Dafna H. Rand is currently Brookings Institution / MIT.

Former State, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Institute For the Study of Diplomacy, Mercy Corps, Center For a New American Security, NSC and SSCI.

Was State during 2016.

Andrew P. Miller wrote a few articles for Foreign Affairs, with two of them being written alongside Sahar Nowrouzzadeh and Amy Hawthorne.

Also endorsed Kamala Harris.

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Andrew P. Miller is a Senior Fellow at the Center For American Progress.

Well then. That's "impressive".

Also spoke with Lawfare's Scott R. Anderson, alongside Jen Patja.

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Oh, Andrew Cedar and Andrew P. Miller are both on the National Security Action's impeachment letter on September 27, 2019.

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Hmm, I'm struggling with Benjamin A. Cooper. He's not on the impeachment letter, he didn't endorse Kamala Harris, and he's not the guy at the Foreign Policy Research Institute either... no LinkedIn, no nothing...

I've looked into Beth Sanner before, back in July, and concluded she was an idiot then, so there you go.

For 2016, Beth was ODNI / National Intelligence Council.

Former CIA.

She was pushing Trump-Russia very recently.

Beth Sanner, as it shows in the LinkedIn, was the Director of the President's Daily Brief from 2017 to 2019. How was she allowed to stick around?

Anyway, she talked about doing at Intelligence & National Security Alliance 2020, as per Natasha Bertrand.

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During the Russia bounty stupid story, Trump was never verbally told about it and pinpointed Beth Sanner as being responsible for that.

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Brett Holmgren is currently at Capital One, former Acting Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, US State Department, Capital One, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director For Intelligence Programs (2015 - 2017), DoD, NSC, CIA and DIA.

Bret Holmgren is on the Impeachment Letter.

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Brett Holmgren briefed Ezra Cohen-Watnick before Trump's inauguration about Russia as per December 25, 2017 article by Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Jaffe.

FBI "NorthernNight" investigation into Alice Donovan during 2016? Hmm...

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Brett Holmgren is married to Dana Remus, with Obama officiating the wedding back in January 2018.

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Brett Holmgren hates John Ratcliffe and wrote as much on July 16, 2020 for Foreign Policy.

Connected to this, Brett is part of Foreign Policy's "Shadow Government" ,alongside others such as Ned Price, Suzanne Goldberg, Jessica Stern, Matthew Duss, etc.

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Brett Holmgren once wrote for Just Security, "A Model for Countering Foreign Disinformation and Interference in Elections" on March 5, 2020 with Benjamin Haas (Human Rights First).

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Charles A. Kupchan is Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and Government Department's Professor of International Affairs, and Senior Fellow at the Council On Foreign Relations.

He was in the National Security Council from 2014 to 2017.

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Charles Kupchan is on the Impeachment Letter and endorsed Kamala Harris.

As part of the National Security Council, he was a Special Assistant to the President.

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Charles Kupchan wrote "No One's World: The West, The Rising Rest and the Coming Global Turn" for the Council On Foreign Relations.

Acknowledgments: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Cliff Kupchan, Simma Kupchan (Kupchans are family).

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Cliff Kupchan is the Chairman of the Eurasia Group (fluent in Russian, former Clinton State Department).

Simma Kupchan is an Attorney for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Christopher Center annoys me because I'm just finding buildings actually called the Christopher Center.

Corinne Graff is on the Impeachment Letter.

She is the former Director For Democracy and Governance at the National Security Council.

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Corinne Graff, Carlos Pascual and Susan Rice wrote the book "Confronting Poverty".

Corinne is a former Brookings scholar, and also was part of the United States Institute of Peace.

Also, Susan Rice was Director of Brookings from 2002 to 2009.

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Corinne Graff was a part of the Institute of Peace back in June 2020, where she wrote about covid.

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Dilpreet Sidhu is on the Impeachment Letter.

She is the former Special Assistant to the National Security Adviser, part of the National Security Council.

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Dilpreet Sidhu is currently Deputy Mayor of International Affairs in Los Angeles, CA.

Former National Security Council (3 times, including 2015 - 2017), former DoD Deputy CoS, used to work for Mayor of Los Angeles from 2017 - 2021, former State Department, former SALDEF.

Dilpreet Sidhu was honoured as a "Next Generation Leader" back in 2020 by New America.

The Los Angeles Mayor at the time was Eric Garcetti.

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Edward Gistaro was the Deputy Director of National Intelligence For Intelligence Integration, where he argued back in July 2017 that releasing the redacted Russia report would expose sources and methods. TOP SECRET clearance.

Article by Josh Gerstein.

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Team Mueller interviewed Edward Gistaro as part of their investigation on June 14, 2017.

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Edward Gistaro at a hearing back on July 25, 2007 with James Clapper and others about "National Intelligence Estimate of al-Qaida".

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Brooke Singman wrote on July 23, 2020, "Source says FBI agent used 2016 briefing on election interference as 'cover' to question Trump team".

Edward Gistaro was the ODNI briefer to Trump, Flynn and Chris Christie.

Wow.

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Emily J. Horne was the spokeswoman for the National Security Council in the Biden Administration.

She was the former Head of Global Policy Communications at Twitter.

She founded Allegro Public Affairs.

Former Brookings, State.

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Emily Horne's LinkedIn.

Spin Class substack, WestExec Advisors, Allegro Public Affairs, former NSC, Brookings Institution, Twitter, National Security Council (2015 - 2017), State Department, George Washington University.

... Rest of Emily Horne's LinkedIn.

Emily Horne is on the Impeachment Letter and on the endorsements for Kamala.

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Emily Horne's Spin Class Substack:

"... running Twitter's policy comms in the aftermath of the 2016 election..."

She "designed and executed the strategy to declassify and publicly share Russia's plots to invade Ukraine".

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The article the link goes to is "'Something Was Badly Wrong': When Washington Realized Russia Was Actually Invading Ukraine" by Erin Banco, Garrett M. Graff, LAra Seligman, Nahal Toosi and Alexander Ward for Politico on February 24, 2023.

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On September 28, 2017, the House Intelligence Committee had a closed door hearing with Twitter about social media - Emily Horne, Elizabeth Banker and Colin Crowell went to it.

"Twitter Tells Congress It Shut Down 200 Accounts Linked to Russia"

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Harry Hannah is a retired CIA senior analyst. He is on the Impeachment Letter.

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Harry I. Hannah has written for Stimson Center's South Asian Voices, War On the Rocks and the Atlantic Council.

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Harry Hannah was also a part of the Central Intelligence Agency's Red Cell, writing about it for the Stimson Center on February 24, 2023.

Foreign Policy's Micah Zenko wrote about Red Cell for his book, Red Team.

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Now, this one I cannot confirm, but on two separate David Corn articles for Mother Jones - "Mark Meadows, the Chief's Chief Coup Plotter" and "It's Crunch Time For Merrick Garland", there is a Harry Hannah being quoted by him.

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Heather Gutierrez is on the Impeachment Letter.

She is a former Staff Officer of the Office of the Executive Secretary, part of the National Security Council.

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When Alison Spanberger ran for the House race in Virginia back in 2018, her SF-86 form was revealed in August 2018, leading to an open letter by intelligence people. Heather Gutierrez is on it.

Politico article by Rebecca Morin.

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Jamia Jowers is a former Special Assistant at the National Security Council.

She is on the Impeachment Letter.

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Jamia Jowers is now the Executive Director at What's Your Forte Foundation, as well as President of the Board of Directors at the Chicago Refugee Coalition.

Former University of Chicago's Obama Foundation Scholars Director.

NSC African Affairs.

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Jeffrey Prescott is on the Impeachment Letter.

He is a former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director, part of the National Security Council.

Also on the Spanberger Letter, sandwiched between Samantha Power and Ned Price.

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Jeffrey Prescott's most recent role was an Ambassador - US Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome.

Former State Department, National Security Action (Executive DIrector), Penn Biden Center, National Security Council (2015 to 2017), Vice President Office and China Law Center.

Jeffrey Prescott, back on September 2, 2015, was on a press call with both Ned Price and Ben Rhodes.

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Jeffrey Prescott has written for Foreign Policy, having been a part of Foreign Policy's "Shadow Government".

Wrote with Jon Finer, Colin Kahl, Julie Smith, Jake Sullivan, Avril Haines and more.

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Jeffrey Prescott made sure to keep in touch with staffers at the National Security Council who remained at the Trump Administration, as per Nahal Toosi's article, "Inside the chaotic early days of Trump's foreign policy" on March 3, 2019.

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Joel T. Meyer is on the Impeachment Letter.

He is a former Director at the National Security Council.

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Joel T. Meyer is currently at Anthropic and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council.

Former Domino Data Lab, Homeland Security, John Hopkins University, Predata, Dataminr (2013 - 2017), NSC, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld, and the Council On Foreign Relations.

Joel T. Meyer once wrote for The Cipher Brief, is part of the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center For Strategy and Security, part of Geostrategy Initiative, and part of the Adirenne Arsht National Security Resilience Initaitive.

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Joel T. Meyer wrote on August 17, 2016 for The Hill a clear endorsement for Hillary Clinton: "The best choice to keep us safe from terrorism at home is Clinton".

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On November 14, 2018, the Council On Foreign Relations hosted the panel "Moderating Online Content With the Help of Artificial Intelligence" (oh boy...)

Joel T. Meyer presided it, Sarah Roberts, Tiffany Li and Robyn Caplan spoke.

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Joel Willett is on the Impeachment Letter and the Spanberger Letter.

He is a former Directorate of Operations at the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Joel Willett has a LinkedIn profile but no job history on it.

Connected to the Truman National Security Project since January 2016.

He is the CEO of Cybermedia Technologies, has been since July 2024.

Joel Willett was one who, when he got his security revoked, decided to go on a bit of a media spree.

Spoke with NPR's Michel Martin, NBC's Ali Vitali.

He wrote about it in Louisville Courier Journal.

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According to the Lexington Herald Leader, Joel Willett is potentially considering a run for the Democratic Senate in Kentucky.

Just another CIA guy trying to rule the country.

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Joel Willett wrote for the Louisville Courier Journal before, as he wrote about "Trump's intelligence failure" on January 11, 2017.

He wasn't happy with Trump's "attacks on the Intelligence Community", including the Iraq WMDs (?).

CIA from 2010 to 2015.

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Joel Willett has also spoken to NPR's Steve Inskeep on September 25, 2019 about calls between President and world leaders. This states Willett was a part of the National Security Council too (lots of people...)

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Joel Willett wrote for Politico on November 11, 2017: "How to Find a Smoking Gun in the Russia Investigation".

Pushing Trump-Russia.

Just like many others, he once worked in Moscow too.

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John W. Ficklin is on the Impeachment Letter, endorsed Kamala, and on the Spanberger Letter.

He is a former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director, part of the National Security Council.

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John W. Ficklin was a long time person at the National Security Council, much longer than the rest so far - started in 1975, retired in January 2016.

He wrote about it for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Knew Obama.

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I'm skipping Julia Gurganus as her information can be found at Daily Mail or The Federalist.

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Julia Santucci is on the Impeachment Letter and endorsements for Kamala.

She is a former Leadership Analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Julia Santucci is currently an Associate Professor of Practice and Director of the Johnson Institute For Responsible Leadership at the University of Pittsburgh.

Former State Department (2015 - 2017), CIA (2005 - 2015), National Security Council and State Department (again).

Julia Santucci has written for War On the Rocks, The Pittsburgh Catholic, Center For a New American Security (gender equality as a national security priority... ???) and Just Security. Wrote with Regina Waugh and Hallie Schneir.

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Julia Santucci also once spoke with Greg Cresci for his podcast, Uncle Sam Abroad, back on June 6, 2022.

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On November 3, 2022, Fiona Hill visited two classses at the University of Pittsburgh - a class taught by Jan Musekamp and a GSPIA intelligence course taught by Julia Santucci.

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Loren DeJonge Schulman is on the Impeachment Letter and the Spanberger Letter.

She is a former Senior Advisor to the National Security Adviser, part of the National Security Council.

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Loren DeJonge Schulman (pronouns in LinkedIn bio) is currently with the Federation of American Scientists and Telos Lab (founder).

Former Office of Management and Budget, Partnership For Public Service, Center For a New American Security (2015 - 2020)...

... the National Security Council and the Department of Defense.

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