This is really interesting. Bidens' NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR - Jake Sullivan exhibiting his brilliance.
Bret Baier on White House response to Taliban takeover: 'I was stunned'
'Special Report' host reacts to Washington's plan to ease tensions in Afghanistan.
video.foxnews.com
Watching different interviews, Press conferences and segments on Fox News it got me wondering about this guy. The Fox segments are bad enough to watch, but here's an even worse one with George Snuffleupegus from Axiom:
Jake Sullivan: Biden didn't think it was "inevitable" Taliban would take control
https://www.axios.com/biden-taliban-afghanistan-jake-sullivan-a3827f36-c038-4f60-9e46-9fe6e3cccf7f.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=email
The part that is pathetic and sad to me is how Joe Biden got stuck with this rube as his
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR:
Here's his background per Wiki:
Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan (born November 28, 1976) is an American political advisor who serves as the
United States National Security Advisor to President Joe Biden. He was previously a senior policy advisor to
Hillary Clinton's
2016 presidential election campaign and her deputy chief of staff at the
Department of State when she was Secretary of State. Sullivan was also a senior advisor to the U.S. government for the
Iran nuclear negotiations and a visiting professor at
Yale Law School.
Sullivan worked in the
Obama administration as deputy assistant to the president and the vice president's national security advisor, when Biden was
U.S. Vice President. He also served as the
Director of Policy Planning at the Department of State.
On November 23, 2020, President-elect Biden announced that Sullivan would be appointed as his national security advisor. He took office January 20, 2021.
Sullivan was born in
Burlington, Vermont, and grew up in
Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
[1][2] His father worked for the
Star Tribune and was a professor at the
University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and his mother was a high school guidance counselor.
[1] Sullivan attended
Southwest High School in Minneapolis, where he graduated in 1994. He was a
debate champion, president of the
student council, and voted "most likely to succeed" in his class.
[3]
Sullivan attended
Yale University, where he majored in
international studies and
political science and was awarded the
Alpheus Henry Snow Prize.
[4][2] He was inducted into
Phi Beta Kappa his senior year and graduated
summa cum laude with distinction in 1998 with a
Bachelor of Arts.
[4][5] Sullivan won a
Rhodes Scholarship[6] to attend
Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied
international relations.
[4] He was awarded a
Marshall Scholarship the same year but turned it down in favor of the Rhodes.
[4] While at Oxford, Sullivan served as a managing editor of the
Oxford International Review and was on the second place team at the 2000
World Universities Debating Championship in Sydney, Australia.
[6][2] In 2000, he graduated with a
Master of Philosophy in
international relations.
[2] He graduated with a
Juris Doctor from
Yale Law School in 2003.
[5]
At Yale, he was an editor of the
Yale Law Journal and the
Yale Daily News. He was a member of the
Yale Debate Association and earned a
Truman Scholarship in his junior year.
[4][7] He also worked for
Brookings Institution president
Strobe Talbott at the
Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.
[8]