The senior DOJ official told Fox News that while Sullivan's wife, Maggie Goodlander, is currently a counsel to Garland, she has no connection to the Durham investigation, adding that among her. Margaret Maggie Goodlander is a Christian. Just went down a pretty interesting rabbit hole on these two. Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, CI, GCVO, GCStJ, CD (Margaret Rose; 21 August 1930 - 9 February 2002) was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and the younger sister and only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II.. Margaret was born when her parents were the Duke and Duchess of York, and she spent much of her childhood with them and her elder sister. Aaron Weinberg:Currently the director of government relations at the Israel Policy Forum, he has served in the US House of Representatives working on foreign policy and other issues. SPECIAL ENVOY FOR HOLOCAUST ISSUES (No Senate confirmation required). 2023 Center for a New American Security (en-US). The FBIs investigation revealed that the email server at issue was not owned or operated by the Trump organization, but rather had been administered by a mass-marketing email company that sent advertisements for Trump hotels and hundreds of other clients, Durham wrote in his indictment. Steve Israel:The former New York congressman campaigned for Biden and is respected on both sides of the partisan and ideological spectrum, including within the Jewish and pro-Israel community. Condoleezza Rice, a national security adviser and secretary of state under President George W. Bush, described the job in her memoir as rarefied staff. Mr. Sullivan is also a product of Washingtons insular foreign policy establishment, a cohort whose traditional support for muscular U.S. foreign policy interventions has fallen out of favor across the political spectrum in the aftermath of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. During his time in the Obama administration, Rhodes was known to be responsible for creating an echo chamber to promote the Iran nuclear deal. The Justice Departments standing guidance calls for employees to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest, especially when it comes to ongoing criminal investigations, Grassley, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said. I feel like thats when I started seeing his name pop up. Goodlander was born on 1986 November 4, in Nashua. Information regarding Margaret Maggie Goodlander's parents is currently not available to the media. , In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the American Diabetes Association. Maggie Goodlander had been married to Jake Sullivan. [10][17], Since then, Sullivan has regularly attended bilateral consultations with Iran in Geneva as a member of the U.S. delegation on the Iran nuclear negotiations. Eric Lynn:He was a Jewish liaison for the 2008 Obama presidential campaign and served in the Obama administration. [5] He was awarded a Marshall Scholarship the same year but turned it down in favor of the Rhodes. They say he (Sullivan) was briefed on the progress of developing opposition research materials which tied former President Trump to Alfa Bank, as well as being aware of the participants in the project. Get unprecedented access to some of the most powerful stories that the media refuses to show you. Yeah, I'm not even that bothered by all the globalist BS. She is also a foreign affair to Senator Joseph Lieberman, also a Governmental Affairs Committee. Mr. Sullivan in Scotland this month. Jason Foster, founder and president of Empower Oversight, a watchdog group, told the Free BeaconGoodlanders recusal would be no imposition on the Justice Department, while her recusal would build public reassurance that the probe is carried out justly. [5][8] He also worked for Brookings Institution president Strobe Talbott at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. [36] They also discussed the potential deal to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Sussmann, a former partner at the firm Perkins Coie, is accused of lying to an FBI lawyer about his reasons for investigating suspicious computer traffic between Trumps real estate company and Alfa Bank, a Russian bank. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque. It's just that he, Nuland, Blinken, the Kagans, Kristol, Frum, Boot are in the psycho club that wants 140 million dead Russians. The Washington Examiner reports that a number of people are calling for Goodlander to recuse herself from the Russia probe, which would seem to make sense given her husbands involvement in the scam. Meanwhile, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) as well as a government watchdog group, Empower Oversight say Goodlander must be formally recused from the Durham investigation in order to maintain public trust in the investigation. According to a Justice Department spokesman, Goodlander has no role in Mr. Durhams investigation, however it isnt clear if she formally recused herself from the matter or whether the Durham probe is outside her Justice Department portfolio, the Free Beacon wrote. To be honest with you, Marc [Elias] wears a tremendous number of hats, so I wasnt sure who he was representing, Sullivan testified under oath. [5][6] Sullivan won a Rhodes Scholarship[7] to attend Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied international relations. In a world of social media and billions of cellphones, he could never have snuck off to China., Colleagues characterize Mr. Sullivan as ambitious and intense, but not in the obnoxious manner of a Washington type. US SECRETARY OF STATE (Requires US Senate confirmation). [8] When Clinton became Secretary of State, Sullivan joined as her deputy chief of staff[11] and Director of Policy Planning, and he travelled with her to 112 countries. He was one of the minds behind the Russia hoax. In yet another example of how deep the DC swamp is, Conservative Treehouse is reporting that Attorney General Merrick Garlands legal counsel, Margaret Goodlander, is married to Bidens national security advisor Jake Sullivan. GOODLANDER - Ronald J., Sr. December 27, 2021, age 60. Part of that investigation involves Sullivans involvement in the collusion hoax and his likely false testimony to a Congressional subcommittee. Norm Eisen:The Democratic counsel during the US House Judiciary Committees impeachment inquiry of Trump, Eisen served in the Obama administration as an ethics czar and US ambassador to the Czech Republic. [20] Sullivan was prominent in many of the Podesta emails released by WikiLeaks during the 2016 US presidential election, including Sullivan questioning if Democratic primary candidate Martin O'Malley's 100% clean energy by 2050 plan was "realistic". A GOP Senate would likely be receptive to Blinken, as he said during the campaign that a Biden administration would keep some US sanctionson Iran and reiterated Bidens stance that the United States would not return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal unless Iran returned to compliance. Ultimately, though, the situation in Afghanistan reflected the reality of a job that often involves more damage control than decision-making. Maggie spent her entire childhood in New Hampshire. As a strong Democratic ally of Israel, he could be in contention for the ambassador role and would likely be easily confirmed by a GOP-controlled Senate. The involvement of Goodlander raises serious questions as to how impartial Garlands office will be in cooperating with the Durham investigation. Lied about independent computer scientist uncovered it. How do we even ask the question without becoming the disconnected, condescending elite that we are talking about?, In a strange turn of events, some critics of Mr. Bidens foreign policy say it includes certain hallmarks of the Trump administration. Sussmann indictment notes that he communicated w/ Clinton campaign about Alfa Bank scam, including the "foreign policy advisor." All rights reserved. December 13, 2021 Breitbart Jake Sullivan's wife, Margaret Goodlander, is under pressure to recuse herself from Special Counsel John Durham's Trump-Russia probe, which involves her husband who worked for the 2016 Clinton campaign. Hes the National Security Advisor who skyrocketed to stardom in Democrat circles from seemingly nowhere, advising Amy Klobuchar, Hillary Clinton, Obama, and Biden. margaret_goodlander@hsgac.senate.gov Academic Year: 2009-10 Direction: From Yale Exchange Partners: Tel Aviv University Research Interest: Reconsidering the Camp David Accords As the United States enters a new era of international leadership, pressing questions about America s role in the Middle East remain unsolved. [32], After the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Sullivan said that the collapse of the government of Afghanistan occurred because at the "end of the day, despite the fact we spent 20 years and tens of billions of dollars to give the best equipment, the best training and the best capacity to the Afghan national security forces, we could not give them the will and they ultimately decided that they would not fight for Kabul and they would not fight for the country. by Margaret Goodlander, edited by Ryan Lowe and Joshua Silverstein Contents 5 19 28 56 61 82. Commendations for Homoeopathy; Products. Sullivan even tried to claim that he didnt know that Elias was working for Perkins Coie, a well-known Democrat-connected law firm. Jake Sullivan, President Bidens national security adviser, has told colleagues that he is determined not to have his tenure defined by the bloodshed in Afghanistan. For starters, he is in a position of enormous responsibility but circumscribed authority. Friends describe him as polite, curious and Midwestern in temperament, with strong allegiance to his native Minnesota. Those materials were then submitted by Sussmann to the FBI. The death toll eventually rose to 13 U.S. service members. Marc [Elias]would occasionally give us updates on the opposition research they were conducting, but I didnt know what the nature of that effort wasinside effort, outside effort, who was funding it, who was doing it, anything like that, Sullivan testified. In his 2017 testimony Sullivan denied knowing of Fusions involvement in the Alfa Bank opposition research. Deborah Lipstadt:One of the worlds preeminent Holocaust scholars, Emory University professor and historian Lipstadt supported Bidens campaign and appeared in virtual Jewish outreach events during the campaign. 2023 Copyright Law Enforcement Today - All Rights Reserved. Sen. Josh Hawley asked that Margaret Goodlander, the. The politics and business news you need to stay up to date, delivered daily in a must-read newsletter. [12] As of 2020[update], he was a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. [6], At Yale, he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Daily News. I saw an article the other day that named him and Victoria Nuland. White House officials bristle at comparisons to the Trump administration. He was previously Director of Policy to President Barack Obama, National Security Advisor to then Vice President Biden and Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary Hillary Clinton at the U.S. Department of State.