Trump names an ambassador. Pete Hoekstra to Canada. 🇨🇦
Hoekstra bio: Former congressman, diplomat, and chair of the House intelligence committee.
Interesting appointment. Serious political experience. From Michigan, presumably knows Canada. And an intel background.
Hoekstra bio: Former congressman, diplomat, and chair of the House intelligence committee.
Interesting appointment. Serious political experience. From Michigan, presumably knows Canada. And an intel background.
Few thoughts here.
1) This is the first nominee to the US embassy in Ottawa in decades with major elected experience. We’ve had mainly fundraisers and organizers for a while.
2) Given his previous role, he’s probably seen more sensitive intelligence than just about anyone in the Canadian government. Given all the intelligence controversies swirling in Ottawa over 🇨🇳 and 🇮🇳, he’s going to have an interesting perspective on this stuff.
3) He got into trouble on his last posting for interfering in domestic politics.
1) This is the first nominee to the US embassy in Ottawa in decades with major elected experience. We’ve had mainly fundraisers and organizers for a while.
2) Given his previous role, he’s probably seen more sensitive intelligence than just about anyone in the Canadian government. Given all the intelligence controversies swirling in Ottawa over 🇨🇳 and 🇮🇳, he’s going to have an interesting perspective on this stuff.
3) He got into trouble on his last posting for interfering in domestic politics.
Here’s an article about a controversy during his posting in the Netherlands. Where he was accused of hosting a quasi-fundraiser at the US embassy for a far-right Dutch party.
His response: this was not a fundraiser. There were just donors there. And he had hosted events for all parties.
wapo.st/4i07zmI
His response: this was not a fundraiser. There were just donors there. And he had hosted events for all parties.
wapo.st/4i07zmI
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