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The top lawyer for the intelligence community, who played an integral role in the decision to keep from Congress the whistleblower complaint that sparked the impeachment inquiry into President Trump is leaving his post, CBS News has learned.
Jason Klitenic, general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, will step down from his position next month and return to the private sector, the office, which oversees the 17 intelligence agencies, said. Klitenic has served as the top lawyer for the intelligence community since August 2018 after he was unanimously confirmed by the Senate.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jason-klitenic-office-director-national-intelligence-general-counsel-ukraine-whistleblower-resigns/
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Klitenic was a partner at Holland & Knight before joining the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and also was the first deputy general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security and deputy associate attorney general of the Department of Justice.
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Jason Klitenic, ODNI general counsel: Klitenic joined Holland & Knight in 2010 and led its national security team in Washington.
Klitenic, who is the brother-in-law of FBI Director Christopher Wray, was also on the Trump transition team.
Klitenic got a shoutout from Wray at the FBI director’s confirmation hearing in 2017, when Wray thanked Klitenic and his wife Kate by name.
“A commitment like this affects the whole family, and I have no words to adequately express my gratitude to all of them,” Wray said at the time.
Klitenic in July 2017 reported receiving $828,483 from Holland & Knight in salary and bonus, according to his financial disclosure form.
He’s no stranger to working with federal agencies, as Klitenic previously worked with the Homeland Security, State and Defense departments. Since joining ODNI, he’s likely to have regularly coordinated with the Justice Department, as he has during the whistleblower controversy.
Klitenic is now in the spotlight for letters he wrote to the House and Senate Intelligence committees earlier this week, on behalf of ODNI. In the letters, he argued that a whistleblower complaint sought by the House panel did not have to be shared with Congress because it didn’t reach the statutory standards needed for disclosure.
During his confirmation hearing in 2017, Klitenic told Senators in his opening statement: “I also believe strongly in my responsibility, if confirmed, to keep the Congress fully and currently informed and my responsibility to support your oversight over the IC. The IC’s unique missions are often practiced in secrecy, to protect critical sources and methods in support of our national security.”
https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2019/09/20/2-key-lawyers-in-whistleblower-saga-have-lauded-oversight-now-they-are-divided/?slreturn=20200123213458
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