عزرا كوهين-واتنك

(تم التحويل من Ezra Cohen-Watnick)
عزرا كوهين-واتنك
Ezra Cohen-Watnick
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Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Acting
في المنصب
November 10, 2020 – January 20, 2021
الرئيسDonald Trump
سبقهJoseph D. Kernan
خلـَفهDavid M. Taylor (Acting)
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict
Acting
في المنصب
August 10, 2020 – November 10, 2020
الرئيسDonald Trump
سبقهChristopher C. Miller (acting)
خلـَفهJoseph Tonon (Acting)
تفاصيل شخصية
وُلِد
Ezra Cohen-Watnick
الحزبRepublican
الزوجRebecca Miller
التعليمUniversity of Pennsylvania (BA)
University of Chicago (JD)

عزرا كوهين-واتنك Ezra Asa Cohen-Watnick (وُلِد في 18 مايو 1986) هو مدير مخضرم سابق لبرامج التجسس في United States National Security Council (NSC).

إقالة عزرا كوهين-واتنك (31 سنة)، مدير المخابرات في مجلس الأمن القومي الأمريكي، ضمن حملة لتطهير البيت الأبيض من معتنقي نظرية تحالف العالميين والإسلاميين لهزيمة أمريكا. عزرا تزوج، في نوفمبر 2016، من عاملة في لوبي أمريكي لصالح روسيا. وكان الجنرال مايكل فلن قد عيّنه في المنصب في الأسبوعين الذي تولى فيهما منصب مستشار الأمن القومي. الجنرال فلن أقيل لإخفائه معلومات عن تلقيه أموال من روسيا وتركيا.

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مجلس الأمن القومي

عزرا كوهن في 2017.

كما أقيل العقيد (المتقاعد) دِرِك هارفي، كبير المستشارين حول الشرق الأوسط، من مجلس الأمن القومي، والذي كان حليفاً لعزرا في التشدد في ضرورة توجيه ضربة للقوات المناصرة لإيران في سوريا. وكلاهما محط كراهية الأوساط المخابراتية. بعد إقالة فلن، كان عزرا كوهين-واتنك (الصورة العليا) يتمتع بحماية من جارد كوشنر وستيف بانون. ولكن اليوم مع وصول جون كلي مستشارا للأمن القومي، فقد أصبح كوشنر (صهر الرئيس) وبانون يحتاجان إذناً من الجنرال كِلي للحديث مع الرئيس ترمب.

Cohen was brought into the United States National Security Council by Michael T. Flynn, the former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and President Donald Trump's first National Security Advisor. He was named the NSC's Senior Director for Intelligence Programs.[1] This directorship was intermittently held by detailed CIA officers. Like Cohen, the immediate preceding Senior Director from the Obama Administration was a political appointee.[2][3] Some viewed Cohen's appointment as a sign of Trump's mistrust of the CIA.[4]

Following Flynn's resignation in February 2017, the new National Security Advisor, H. R. McMaster, attempted to remove Cohen, but he was overruled by Trump.[5] McMaster attempted to replace Cohen with veteran CIA official Linda Weissgold.[6]

It is alleged that Cohen inadvertently identified reports suggesting that members of Trump's campaign team had been subjected to incidental surveillance by the United States intelligence community, as part of an unrelated review of privacy procedures.[7][8] This information was passed on to Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes by Assistant White House Counsel Michael Ellis.[9][7]

It has been reported that Cohen has advocated using the American intelligence community to overthrow the current Iranian government.[5][10]

The White House announced Cohen's dismissal on August 2, 2017, following policy disagreements with National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster over Afghanistan, Iran, and Intelligence Oversight.[11][12][13] According to The Washington Post, Cohen resigned following a power shift under McMaster.[14] Upon Cohen departure, the White House commented that "General McMaster appreciates the good work accomplished in the NSC's Intelligence directorate under Ezra Cohen's leadership... General McMaster is confident that Ezra will make many further significant contributions to national security in another position in the administration."[15][16]

In late September 2017, Cohen was reportedly succeeded by Michael Barry.[17]


وزارة الدفاع

In May 2020, Cohen was appointed as deputy assistant secretary of defense for counternarcotics and global threats.[18][19] By September 2020, he had been promoted to acting assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict.[20][21] On November 10, 2020, President Trump relieved a number of senior defense officials including Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Joseph Kernen resigned in anticipation.[22] Trump appointed Cohen to fill the role as acting undersecretary[23] with principal deputy Joseph Tonon assuming the day-to-day duties of the role of ASD SO/LIC.[24]

In December 2020, Cohen was appointed by Trump to chair the Public Interest Declassification Board.[25] He continued serving into Joe Biden's presidency.[26]

الحياة الشخصية

Cohen is a member of the Union League of Philadelphia, a Republican-leaning patriotic society.[27] He married Rebecca Miller, who served as deputy assistant secretary for public affairs at the Treasury Department, in November 2016, in a Jewish ceremony.[28][29][30]

Some adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory believed Cohen to be the eponymous "Q", a belief Cohen said he found disturbing.[31] In a January 2021 interview, he criticized the Trump administration for not doing more to delegitimize QAnon.[31]

الهامش

  1. ^ Warren, Michael. "McMaster Interviewed CIA Operative to Replace Trump NSC Official". The Weekly Standard. Archived from the original on March 16, 2017. Retrieved March 31, 2017. The current NSC official is Ezra Cohen-Watnick, a 30-year-old former intelligence operations officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency who was brought into the Trump White House by the former DIA director, Mike Flynn. Flynn resigned as national security advisor last month. Like Flynn, Cohen-Watnick has been critical of the CIA's perceived politicization during the Obama administration.
  2. ^ "Brett Holmgren". trumanproject.org (in الإنجليزية الأمريكية). Archived from the original on June 5, 2017. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  3. ^ "Donilon out, Rice in; POGO releases draft IG report on Panetta, ZD30; Well, that went well: chiefs exasperate senators during sexual assault hearing; Brett Holmgren is a TSA for Ash; PowerPoints gone wild; And a bit more". Foreign Policy. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  4. ^ Moran, Christopher R.; Aldrich, Richard J. (April 24, 2017). "Trump and the CIA". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved April 24, 2017.(يتطلب اشتراك)
  5. ^ أ ب Gray, Rosie (July 23, 2017). "The Man McMaster Couldn't Fire". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on July 24, 2017.
  6. ^ "McMaster Interviewed CIA Operative to Replace Trump NSC Official". The Weekly Standard. March 16, 2017. Archived from the original on March 16, 2017. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  7. ^ أ ب Miller, Greg; DeYoung, Karen (March 30, 2017). "Three White House officials tied to files shared with House intelligence chairman". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 31, 2017.
  8. ^ "Obama aide denies using intel to spy on Trump advisers". AP News (in الإنجليزية الأمريكية). Associated Press. April 4, 2017. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  9. ^ "Trump removes Bannon from National Security Council". AP News (in الإنجليزية الأمريكية). Associated Press. April 5, 2017. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
  10. ^ Rosenberg, Matthew; Goldman, Adam (June 2, 2017). "C.I.A. Names New Iran Chief in a Sign of Trump's Hard Line". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 2, 2017. And Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the council's senior director for intelligence—the main White House liaison to intelligence agencies—has told other administration officials that he wants to use American spies to help oust the Iranian government, according to multiple defense and intelligence officials.
  11. ^ Groll, Elias; McLaughlin, Jenna (August 2, 2017). "Top Intelligence Official on National Security Council Is Out". Foreign Policy.
  12. ^ "H.R. McMaster Cleans House at the National Security Council". The Atlantic. August 2, 2017.
  13. ^ "Flynn holdover Cohen-Watnick removed from Nat'l Security Council". United Press International. August 3, 2017.
  14. ^ Bump, Philip (February 8, 2018). "Analysis | Thirty-seven administration officials who've resigned or been fired under Trump". The Washington Post (in الإنجليزية الأمريكية). ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
  15. ^ Gray, Rosie (August 2, 2017). "H.R. McMaster Cleans House at the National Security Council". The Atlantic (in الإنجليزية). Retrieved September 17, 2022.
  16. ^ Johnson, Eliana; Toosi, Nahal; Watkins, Ali (August 2, 2017). "McMaster dismisses another Flynn hire from National Security Council". Politico (in الإنجليزية). Retrieved September 17, 2022.
  17. ^ "CIA Officer Joins NSC Staff As Agency Vows To Be More "Vicious"". BuzzFeed (in الإنجليزية). Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  18. ^ Cooper, Helene (May 11, 2020). "Aide Ousted From White House Reappears Again in Administration Job". The New York Times.
  19. ^ Jacobs, Jennifer; Capaccio, Anthony (May 11, 2020). "Ex-Trump Security Aide Who Left in Controversy Rejoins Pentagon". Bloomberg. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  20. ^ "Agenda". National Defense Industrial Association. Archived from the original on October 2, 2020. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
  21. ^ McLeary, Paul [@paulmcleary] (September 26, 2020). "Remember Ezra Cohen-Watnick? He landed as DoD's acting (unconfirmed) secretary for Special Operations, and he's speaking at a Special Ops conference Friday. ndia.org/events/2020/10/2/2020-virtual-solic/agenda" (Tweet) – via Twitter. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  22. ^ Macias, Amanda (November 10, 2020). "Trump loyalists elevated to powerful roles at the Pentagon after firing of Defense Secretary Esper". CNBC (in الإنجليزية). Retrieved November 11, 2020.
  23. ^ Mehta, Aaron (November 10, 2020). "Top policy, intelligence civilians resign amid Pentagon shakeup". Defense News (in الإنجليزية الأمريكية). Retrieved November 11, 2020.
  24. ^ Altman, Meghann Myers, Howard (November 19, 2020). "Pentagon shakeup means more civilian oversight for special operations". Military Times (in الإنجليزية الأمريكية). Retrieved November 30, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  25. ^ Niedzwiadek, Nick (December 22, 2020). "Trump nominates Hope Hicks, Ric Grenell to government posts". Politico. Trump also tapped Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the acting undersecretary of Defense for intelligence and security, to chair the Public Interest Declassification Board.
  26. ^ Bender, Bryan (September 29, 2021). "How a former Trump aide is pressing Biden to loosen national security secrets". Politico. Retrieved October 24, 2021.
  27. ^ "Banner" (PDF). Union League of Philadelphia. June 2012. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 30, 2017. Ezra A. Cohen-Watnick
  28. ^ خطأ استشهاد: وسم <ref> غير صحيح؛ لا نص تم توفيره للمراجع المسماة Newsweek
  29. ^ "Report: Trump overrules national security adviser in order to keep NSC aide Cohen-Watnick". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. March 15, 2017. Archived from the original on March 30, 2017. Retrieved March 30, 2017. Cohen-Watnick celebrated his engagement to Rebecca Miller in November at Ohr Kodesh Congregation, a Conservative synagogue outside Washington, D.C., according to a synagogue newsletter.
  30. ^ Guttman, Nathan (March 30, 2017). "Meet Ezra Cohen-Watnick, The Secret Source At The Center Of Trump Russia Probe". The Forward. Archived from the original on March 30, 2017. Cohen-Watnick grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, just outside the nation's capital and attended the nearby Conservative synagogue Ohr Kodesh. Last November he celebrated his engagement to Rebecca Miller at the synagogue.
  31. ^ أ ب "'Are you QAnon?': One Trump official's brush with an internet cult gone horribly wrong". Politico (in الإنجليزية). January 19, 2021. Retrieved June 15, 2021.
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