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Elizabeth Phu

...Asian Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council [NSC] from 2007 to 2009; director o...
...of the National Security Council [ NSC ] from 2007 to 2009; director of th...
...and East Asia Security Affairs on the National Security Council staff; and in 2016, she returned to th...
...had your first experience on the National Security Council staff. How did that come about? I ha...
...ask me, “How do I get a job on the NSC staff?” I taught recently at Georgetow...

...you can apply for a position on the National Security Council staff. They are referred jobs. Peopl...
...what happened. My counterpart at the National Security Council staff was leaving. She had worked wit...
...And it's that way because the National Security Council staff is so small, and you spend s...
...I come back for my second tour on the National Security Council staff. So, 2007, 2008, I spent mor...
...the highlights of my second time on the National Security Council staff was actually meeting Aung San Su...
...to go back to your old haunt on the NSC staff. I wanted to ask how tha...
...to talk to the senior director and the NSC staff to see if he had suggestions o...
...by our global engagement team on the NSC staff, but scoped and focused to mak...
...and trade. Thinking big picture at the NSC and the White House, what was th...
...but I'm wondering if, among the NSC staff, among people talking about TPP'...
...the room who are like that. We had an NSC mom's lunch once a month. I probabl...
...There are senior levels in the National Security Council staff. But even if you start at th...
...you start at the director level of the National Security Council staff, the number of people who wer...
...as well. He was my last boss on the National Security Council staff. He knew the focus from the Whit...

James Clapper

...So I think the president, in every NSC [National Security Council] meeting w...
...I think the president, in every NSC [ National Security Council ] meeting we had, we always started of...
...ask you about being present at the NSC . Was this shared throughout th...
...We had, as time grew nigh, a series of NSC meetings about the raid. It wa...
...Thursday, I believe, it was the last NSC meeting we had on the subject. As th...

...famous—I believe it's a Friday night NSC meeting— Yes, I was— —in which th...

John Brennan

...Council staff, and there was also a National Security Council staff. So Jim Jones, who was th...
...in the Deputies Committee meetings, the Principals Committee meetings, and the National Securit...
...Principals Committee meetings, and the National Security Council meetings. It seemed like one afte...
...So there were a lot of people in the National Security Council , and also in the Intelligenc...
...assemble a group, or he would hold National Security Council meetings, I felt as though I had th...

...at the Deputies, Principals, and National Security Council level to review the intelligence, tak...
...Again, I participated in the meetings, National Security Council meetings in the White House Situatio...
...the Homeland Security Council into the National Security Council . Was this something that...
...covered in the broader purview of the NSC after those groups emerged? Well, i...
...where he sought your counsel in the NSC , aside from the NSC, as you look back...
...your counsel in the NSC, aside from the NSC , as you look back? I'd be curious...

Rumana Ahmed

...and Strategic Communications on the National Security Council [NSC] staff from 2014 to 2017. In thi...
...on the National Security Council [ NSC ] staff from 2014 to 2017. In thi...
...working with him down the line in the National Security Council . That's such an excellent place t...
...joined the Public Engagement Office and National Security Council , both with my own voice but also b...
...to Jon Carson. Then when I joined the National Security Council , my portfolio expanded significantly...

...that wouldn't happen until I joined the National Security Council later on. I want to ask you abou...
...point, I'm sure on the back end at the NSC , they were talking about what the Ira...
...Again, I had moved over to the National Security Council by this point. But they continued t...
...community as well. So, it was the National Security Council staff. At that time it was Bernadett...
...to make sure, before we move on to the National Security Council , that there aren't any stories tha...
...your biography. How did the position at NSC come about? Where does that stor...
...how I then transferred over to the National Security Council . One of the first things that Ben wa...
...up the discussion of your work on the NSC , I want to ask: How was it differen...
...had now moved over with me to the National Security Council . I was doing the White House iftar...
...in itself is interesting because the NSC —people think of it as the most close...
...part of the central structure within NSC , which was through this office. I...
...one of the directorates within the National Security Council . So some of it was building off o...
...all the acronyms. As you mentioned, the National Security Council is very closed. It had to be a lot o...
...definitely was not the case within the National Security Council . I was really excited to get to pla...
...why I told you why I joined the National Security Council is, Well, we haven't had a conversatio...
...that I got to work on within the NSC that was really important for me. I'...

Robert Gates

...would be the years that I spent on the National Security Council staff under presidents Nixon, Ford, an...
...a lot of that time at the NSC [National Security Council]—secretarie...
...a long one, and from my perch at the NSC , I saw the consequences of that. S...
...In fact, she had worked for me on the NSC under the first President Bush. So ...
...for me, with all my experience on the NSC , under the national security advisor...

...was different from all the previous National Security Council staffs that I had served on an...
...national security positions at the NSC had aligned themselves with ...
...more than a few of those on the NSC staff. You mentioned earlier the wa...
...the national security staff, or the National Security Council staff, became operational under Obama...
...months into the administration. The NSC and the White House staff clearl...
...lot of the people around Obama, on the NSC as well as in the White House staff...
...staff and the more senior people on the National Security Council and national security staff that th...
...was on the agenda of the very first NSC meeting that Obama held. And th...
...I used to formulate it that the way NSC meetings always went was that the Stat...

Susan Rice

...organizations and peacekeeping on the NSC [National Security Council] staff fro...
...and peacekeeping on the NSC [ National Security Council ] staff from 1993 to 1995, and a...
...our agenda and focus the efforts of the Principals Committee and the Deputies Committee on how w...
...thing within the White House in the NSC . We did that and it was pretty—it wa...
...wondered from your vantage point on the NSC , how do you prepare the ground t...

...What was your viewpoint from the National Security Council ? Where does the story of Paris reall...

Chuck Hagel

...to come from the White House and the National Security Council [NSC] and the president, along wit...
...and the National Security Council [ NSC ] and the president, along with Stat...
...Well, the White House through the National Security Council , through the national securit...
...we'd had a lot of discussions in the National Security Council with our Central Command and with th...
...and strategic guidance from the National Security Council staff under the guidance of th...

...confined in the White House than the National Security Council . And, I might add, the Stat...
...August becomes an urgent issue at the NSC about whether the United States shoul...
...We had many meetings about this in the National Security Council . What we did, we wanted to firs...
...options. We went around the table, the National Security Council , and all agreed. We agreed on th...
...to the United States. They had one last National Security Council meeting before they pushed the butto...
...out about it. The next morning we had a National Security Council meeting. He then explained, which th...
...the president saying to me and National Security Council , “I want no boots on the ground i...
...East. But I remember going back to National Security Council meetings right after that happened, an...
...and we had a number of people in the National Security Council wanted to immediately, abruptly...
...I had a lot of meetings. We had National Security Council meetings. I think it was pretty clear...
...they did that. I remember one day, a National Security Council meeting. It was on a Friday. Th...

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