{"id":287484,"date":"2016-12-28T02:24:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T01:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-taps-ex-bush-aide-for-counterterrorism-post\/"},"modified":"2016-12-28T02:24:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T01:24:55","slug":"trump-taps-ex-bush-aide-for-counterterrorism-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-taps-ex-bush-aide-for-counterterrorism-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump taps ex-Bush aide for counterterrorism post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>US President-elect Donald Trump has appointed a top national security aide under former President George W. Bush as his homeland security and counter-terrorism adviser.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">In a statement on Tuesday, Trump picked for the post Thomas Bossert, who was a deputy homeland security adviser in the last year of the Bush administration in the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">&#8220;Tom brings enormous depth and breadth of knowledge and experience to protecting the homeland to our senior White House team,\u201d Trump said in the statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cHe has a handle on the complexity of homeland security, counter-terrorism, and cybersecurity challenges. He will be an invaluable asset to our Administration,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The Trump transition team said Bossert\u2019s role will be expanded under the president-elect administration and that the appointee is to be given an &#8220;independent status alongside the National Security Advisor.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The team further noted that Bossert\u2019s focus will be on the protection of the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/28\/503763\/Thomas-Bossert-George-W-Bush-counterterrorism-adviser-Donald-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President-elect Donald Trump has appointed a top national security aide under former President George W. Bush as his homeland security and counter-terrorism adviser. In a statement on Tuesday, Trump picked for the post Thomas Bossert, who was a deputy homeland security adviser in the last year of the Bush administration in the White House. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}