WASHINGTON (JTA) — President-elect Joe Biden named David Cohen, the deputy CIA director under President Barack Obama, to his old job.
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Cohen, who rose up through the intelligence ranks as an Iran sanctions enforcer, will be able to start as soon as Biden is inaugurated on Jan. 20, as the deputy director is not subject to Senate confirmation.
His experience at the agency will prove useful to Biden as the likelihood increases that the president will not have any Senate-confirmed officials in place by Jan. 20. Cohen’s Iran experience, at Treasury and the CIA, also will be handy as Biden seeks to immediately reenter the Iran nuclear deal.
Congress has come to a standstill as it deals with the fallout of President Donald Trump’s insistence that he has won the election. In the past, key Cabinet secretaries have been in place by Inauguration Day or shortly thereafter.
Cohen reportedly was on Biden’s shortlist for CIA director. Biden ultimately nominated William Burns, a State Department veteran with deep experience in the Middle East and in Russia.
Cohen since his youth has been involved in Jewish causes and issues. One of his first jobs was working for Nathan Lewin, an attorney who sought to defend the right of towns to display Hanukkah menorahs on public property.
Sayn, onother Yid. Biden get serious, who will be the shabbos goy if you only hire yiden.
The swamp is back in full
Most if not all Jews who worked for Obama were pro the Iran Nuclear Deal. I.e, Wendy Sherman, Ben Rhodes, Jack Lew. That deal was idiotic from inception and disastrous in effect. Biden and his appointee Wendy Sherman want to resurrect it. Biden has stated post election that he wants to restart it with no preconditions. Such stupidity is dumbfounding. And all these Jews will help him do it, to Israel’s detriment.