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President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for a top Pentagon post has a lengthy Twitter history of defending British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited dossier and promoting allegations of Trump-Russia collusion.A statement issued on Wednesday said Colin Kahl, a former deputy assistant to President Barack Obama and national security adviser to then-vice president Biden from 2014 to 2017, was announced as Biden's nominee for undersecretary of defense for policy, along with Kathleen Hicks picked as deputy defense secretary. Biden said Kahl would “help lead the Department of Defense with integrity and resolve†and “safeguard the lives and interests of the American people.†He currently works as co-director of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation and as a strategic adviser at the Penn Biden Center....Kahl began his defenses of Steele's dossier and public flirtation with claims of President Trump colluding with Russia in early 2017. He attacked the House Intelligence Committee Republicans' memo on alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses in early 2018, which had its conclusions largely vindicated by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s scathing December 2019 report that criticized the Justice Department and FBI for 17 "significant errors or omissions" in the FISA process related to the wiretapping of 2016 Trump campaign associate Carter Page.
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Topic: 'Russia on the brain': Biden pick for top Pentagon post was a vocal Steele dossier promoter (Read 149 times)
