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Michael McFaul

...of Russian and Eurasian affairs on the NSC [National Security Council] from 200...
...and Eurasian affairs on the NSC [ National Security Council ] from 2009 to 2012. Ambassador McFau...
...job. I didn't go there to be at the NSC . I was like, Okay, I think this wil...
...I was the brand new guy over at the NSC . He also wanted to make clear to th...
...that. I think February we got our first Principals Committee meeting, and we were locked in. The...

...your being offered the position on the NSC . Yes. Can you say a little bi...
...to populate the senior jobs at the NSC . Then there are a bunch of disruption...
...that that's one way I could work at the NSC if Jones has to—if they take his perso...
...Committee meetings on it and a PC, a Principals Committee , meeting. Then it was taken to th...
...president. We decided we didn't need an NSC . And by the way, that's good. Anothe...
...more militant than anybody at the NSC , to try to have as much decisio...
...Deputies Committee, let alone to the Principals Committee , because that meant that we didn'...
...I was one of the people that left the NSC the earliest of all the senio...
...I told—by that time, Donilon is the NSC advisor. And they're like, “Oh, com...
...of Russian and Eurasian affairs on the National Security Council from 2009 to 2012. In this intervie...
...of the United States and his entire National Security Council . How intense was the pace of meeting...

Jeffrey Feltman

...director for the Middle East at the NSC [National Security Council], so he wa...
...for the Middle East at the NSC [ National Security Council ], so he was sort of my NS...
...Security Council], so he was sort of my NSC counterpart. Dan and I went out ...
...this?” That was State [Department], NSC , AID [Agency for Internationa...
...of State proposals and the NSC —again, Dan Shapiro was m...

...Derek Chollet, who had been at the NSC , and I went to see some of Gaddafi'...

Daniel Russel

...director for Asian affairs on the National Security Council [NSC]. From 2013 to 2017, he wa...
...on the National Security Council [ NSC ]. From 2013 to 2017, he was assistan...
...initially as the director in the NSC for Japan and North and South Korea...
...had about the division of labor in the NSC team, so we'll be sure to cover that...
...you immediately prior to joining the NSC ? You were a consul general, correct...

...campaign. He said he was going to the NSC . He was trying to put together an Asi...
...chronology: When did you start on the NSC ? Were you there on day one, or was i...
...there on day one. I started at the NSC on January twenty-first. I don't kno...
...and changed my life, because the NSC was a ghost town for that time, an...
...was one of a very small number of new NSC staff to join. There were a handful o...
...together, but the vast majority of NSC directors and senior directors wer...
...nobody besides me to do the work in the NSC , so I wrote the memos and so on. Thi...
...of the horrors of a new secondee to the NSC is discovering that all of the materia...
...2011—a tremendous debate within the NSC , within the Obama team, about whethe...
...thinking about then, after 2011, on the NSC ? What was occupying your mind tha...
...Asia and the Pacific Affairs within the NSC . Number two, there's the challenge o...
...for Asia, and I was very content at the NSC . I wasn't really interested in leavin...
...in the Executive Office Building at the NSC . I was out in the field. I wa...
...incredibly busy as I was at the NSC , I could pretty much do all the work...
...part of my work first in the NSC , but then as assistant secretary. I'l...
...assistant secretary. I'll skip over the NSC stuff only to say that I had worked o...
...I guess I also was still at the NSC when we arranged for Thein Sein, th...
...etc., etc. I also, coming out of the NSC , had not only great ties with Be...
...shall we say, hearts. But I had, in the NSC , engineered an important visit for ...
...even I, with all my connections in the NSC , couldn't get the White House t...
...probably Susan Rice, or somebody at the NSC —it must have been Susan—saying, “Wha...
...in the State Department and the NSC , and others, argued that we can't jus...

Derek Mitchell

...apparently. She had briefings from the NSC [National Security Council] on Burma...
...She had briefings from the NSC [ National Security Council ] on Burma. They imposed a series o...
...could have been State, could have been NSC , depending where—as you may know, o...
...Department, I think, maybe some in NSC , but I think it came out of State an...
...at Burma—State Department or the NSC —extended into South Asia, into what w...

Michèle Flournoy

...and then the Principals, and ultimately NSC [National Security Council] meetings...
...the Principals, and ultimately NSC [ National Security Council ] meetings. So we appended ourselves t...
...ourselves to or leveraged the normal NSC process to vet and refine an...
...as did others in State and NSC , trying to create a more strategi...
...Department, State Department, with the NSC overseeing. But there was also a mor...

...people before we thrust them into the National Security Council staff, or we thrust them into th...
...My understanding is, the pace of NSC meetings, Deputies Committee meetings...

Jim Steinberg

...also to see this from the broader NSC [National Security Council], Whit...
...also to see this from the broader NSC [ National Security Council ], White House perspective. I would sa...
...as part of the principals and cabinet NSC -type processes. Did it surprise yo...
...positions that were taking shape on the National Security Council and other folks that Obama was seekin...
...that you, and you felt like maybe the NSC or the foreign policy establishment a...

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