#NationalSecurityCouncil

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Ben Buchanan Georgetown CSET cyber and AI scholar hired into the Biden White House under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act, who became its first Special Advisor for AI and later an outside advisor to Anthropic.
Brent Scowcroft Vice chairman of Kissinger Associates, where he advised Banca Nazionale del Lavoro for fees, who as national security adviser kept agricultural credits flowing to Iraq in 1990 while his staff resisted measures singling Iraq out.
Jeff Alstott IARPA program manager and National Security Council technology director who became founding director of RAND's Technology and Security Policy center and helped shape the compute thresholds in Biden's AI executive order.
Kash Patel Former federal prosecutor and House intelligence committee counsel, confirmed 51 to 49 as FBI director in 2025, whose bureau joined the July 2025 memo finding no Epstein client list warranting further disclosure.

40 Committee National Security Council subcommittee that approved CIA covert action under Nixon, chaired by Henry Kissinger, which voted 1.665 million dollars to El Mercurio and was never told of the 1970 order for a coup in Chile.

National Security Act of 1947 Statute of July 26, 1947, that created the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Military Establishment, barring the new agency from police, subpoena, law-enforcement or internal-security functions.

White House The presidential residence and executive office in Washington, the point where the vault's intelligence, arms and money stories reach the president's staff, and the source of many of their authorizations.