Biden taps Kahl as national security aide
Vice President Joe Biden has picked Colin Kahl, former Pentagon Middle East adviser, to serve as top national security aide.
Vice President Joe Biden has picked Colin Kahl to serve as his top national security adviser, the White House has announced.
Kahl, the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East in Barack Obama’s first term, currently serves as a professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Center for New American Security (CNAS). He declined to comment.
He will succeed Jake Sullivan, who departed the White House last month to teach at Yale Law School but who has been retained as a senior adviser on the Iran nuclear talks currently underway in New York.
Kahl served as the top civilian Pentagon Middle East adviser from 2009 through 2011, working closely with then-Defense Secretaries Robert Gates and Leon Panetta to deepen security ties to US Middle East allies in Israel and the Gulf States, as well as coordinating US policy toward Iraq and Iran.
