Laura Rozen, former Cable author, gets
some news on State Department appointments in the works:
Victoria Nuland, the former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and wife of
neoconservative writer Robert Kagan, is in the final stages of vetting for a
senior State Department position, administration sources say. Nuland, a career
Foreign Service Officer who served as principal deputy national security advisor
to former Vice President Dick Cheney, and who worked in the Clinton
administration as chief of staff to Strobe Talbott on nuclear disarmament
issues, has spent the past year at the National Defense University. She didn't
immediately respond to a query.
Reuben Brigerty, who was set to join the
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) last month as the director
of the development and security initiative, will instead become a DAS in the
State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, reporting to
Assistant Secretary Eric Schwartz, POLITICO has confirmed. Brigerty, a former
lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, is an expert on post-conflict reconstruction,
previously affiliated with the Center for American Progress.
Anne Witkowsky, a former Clinton-era NSC director, is scheduled to come on
board shortly as a deputy to Dan Benjamin, the State Department Coordinator for
Counter Terrorism. Witkowsky and Benjamin were previously colleagues at CSIS.
Benjamin, a former Clinton-era NSC official, is expected to bring on three more
senior advisors in the coming weeks.
And more State Department press office news, as department sources say
spokesman Robert Wood is under consideration to become deputy chief of mission
at one of the U.S. missions in Vienna or Brussels (U.S.-EU). (Wood didn't
respond to a query.)
Wood would become the second State Department spokesman
in a row to be deployed to Europe. The White House announced
the nomination of Ian Kelly to be America's representative to the OSCE
yesterday.
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