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GREENWICH, Conn., May 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ One River Digital Asset Management (together with its parent, One River Asset Management) announced the addition of two new members to the firm s Academic and Regulatory Advisory Council: Courtney Simmons Elwood and Harold Ford, Jr. They will join Jay Clayton, former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Kevin Hassett, former Chairman of the White House s Council of Economic Advisers, and Jon Orszag, former Economic Policy Advisor on President Clinton s National Economic Council.
Ms. Elwood served as General Counsel of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency from June 2017 to January 2021. From 2001 to 2007, she held a number of senior positions in the federal government, including as Associate Counsel to the President, Deputy Counsel to the Vice President, and Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Attorney General. Before and after that stint in the government, Courtney
so we see different motivations here at play, potentially. annie, i want to get you on the record about another sort of character in the impeachment drama we haven t talked about much, but you and your colleagues have reported on him a good deal. he s the person in the white house counsel s office sort of detailed or assigned to dealing with matters of national security. this is from some reporting from sort of the beginning of this scandal about the cia also reaching out to this lawyer who had the two alarms raised from alexander vindman. you guys reported this. the cia s general counsel courtney simmons elwood called john a. eisenberg, a deputy counsel and counterpart at the national security counsel according to three people familiar with the matter. he was already aware of vague concerns about the call. ms. elwood, mr. eisenberg and their deputies spoke multimillimultiple times the following week. they decided the accusations had a reasonable basis. so mr. eisenberg now is in re
been engaged in trying to push back against corruption in ukraine, for quite some time. meanwhile, the president blasting out a series of tweets today, he attacked everything from the whistle-blower s account, to the media, to senator mitt romney. and this comes a day after the heads of three big house committee, elijah cummings, adam schiff, elliot engel, they subpoenaed the white house and vice president mike pence for documents related to the house impeachment investigation. this came after repeated requests for the documents earlier this week that were ignored. we also learned overnight, from bloomberg, that following the first whistle-blower complaint, the president ordered a substantial staff reduction at the national security council. that s according to five people familiar with those plans. but that s not all for you. also, within the past 24 hours, u.s. officials tell nbc news that the c.i.a. s top lawyer courtney simmons elwood made what she considered to be a criminal ref
for him to do it is unusual. attorney/client privilege is communications between a lawyer and client to get legal advice. this is rudy, he even says, i wasn t acting as his lawyer, talking to everyone in ukraine, et cetera, no real plausible argument he s somehow communicating with trump to give trump legal advice. that s the short answer. that is the answer we ll leave it with. i appreciate your time, peter baker from the new york times and harry, washington post columnist. ukraine s top where joe biden s son sat on the board. ukraine s involvement and be sure to watch tomorrow night on msnbc, 9:00 p.m. eastern time. ari mehl ber holber looking int
new nbc news reporting a top cia official, one appointed by president trump, mind you, concluded that potential crime had been committed weeks before the whistleblower report became public. the cia s top lawyer made a criminal referral about the whistleblower allegations that president trump abused his office in pressuring the president. josh joining me from dc on this. the top cia lawyer, courtney simmons elwood is her name. she filed this criminal complaint. what happened next? this is painting a picture of the whistleblower trying to sound the alarm within the u.s. government in as many ways as possible. this is all before the whistleblower had filed the formal whistleblower complaint. raised concerns with cia lawyers because he was a cia employee. that made it up to courtney simmons elwood, nominated by trump. former lawyer for president george w. bush and what did she do with the information?