Many of the highest-ranking members of the Biden administration came from the same shadowy firm. It is a relatively new name among revolving-door power brokers in Washington D.C., which makes it all the more surprising.
Founded in 2017, WestExec describes itself as a “diverse group of senior national security professionals with the most recent experience at the highest levels of the U.S. government. With deep knowledge and networks in the fields of defense, foreign policy, intelligence, cybersecurity, international economics, and strategic communications, our team has worked together around the White House Situation Room table, deliberating and deciding our nation’s foreign and national security policies.”
WestExec Advisors gets its name from “West Executive Avenue,” which the official site says is “the closed street that runs between the West Wing of the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. It is, quite literally, the road to the Situation Room, and it is the road everyone associated with WestExec Advisors has crossed many times en route to meetings of the highest national security consequence.”
WestExec has staffed the administration with over 23 of its executives, who have sprawled out across the national security and intelligence apparatus. The Intercept and The American Prospect dug into these profiles, and some of the biggest names in government are among them, including:
- Tony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State; Co-founder and managing partner of WestExec
- Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence; Principal
- David S. Cohen, Deputy Director at the CIA; Principal
- Lisa Monaco, Deputy Attorney General; Principal
- Chris Inglis, National Cyber Director; Principal
- Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary; Senior Adviser
- Ely Ratner, Asst. Sec. of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs; Senior Adviser
All multi millionaires from big oil investments. When trump won they panicked because they didn’t have tax money at their disposal anymore to throw around abroad. Sad we are changing our language, biology, history and people with in the same year.