The Center for a New American Security picked up three top Democrat
foreign-policy hands, all of whom recently left government service: Ike
Skelton, former House Armed Services Committee chairman, Anne-Marie
Slaughter, former State Department policy planning director, Rich Verma,
former assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs.
The
think tank was founded in 2008 by Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia Kurt
Campbell and Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy.
After Campbell and Flournoy entered the Obama administration, they handed over
the reins to current CEO Nate Fick and President John Nagl.
Fick and Nagl announced the moves in an e-mail on Monday. Nagl said
Skelton "will prove an invaluable member of
our team, particularly through helping to further our mission of educating and
training the next generation of national security leaders."
Fick praised Slaughter's work at
State leading the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) and her
academic experience (she was dean at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and now
teaches there). "Her understanding of our most pressing national security
challenges and her practical, analytical approach make her a welcome addition
to the Center," he said. In addition to her work at Princeton and CNAS,
Slaughter has been furiously tweeting here.
On Verma, Nagl referred to both his
time at State and his long Capitol Hill career, which included a stint with
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
(D-NV). "Rich brings to CNAS expertise in legislative affairs and national
security policy and a substantive background in non-proliferation and the
prevention of terrorism," said Nagl. Verma's day job is at the consulting firm
of Steptoe & Johnson.
The three Dems join a bipartisan board of directors at the relatively
new national security think thank. CNAS is chaired by former Navy Secretary Richard
Danzig and the board also includes former Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright, former Deputy Secretary of State Rich Armitage, former
Defense Secretary Bill Perry, and former undersecretary of State Nick
Burns.
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