In its Nov. 23 issue, Politico published a detailed profile of WestExec Advisors, the consulting firm founded in 2017 by Joe Biden’s Secretary of State-designate Tony Blinken and Defense Secretary hopeful Michèle Flournoy, under the headline “The Secretive Consulting Firm That’s Become Biden’s Cabinet in Waiting.” The company, which 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,” is in fact now “lending” a portion of its personnel — almost all of whom are alumni of the Obama Administration — to Biden, to serve in various advisory roles, if not already chosen to fill posts in what he hopes will be his presidency. And, that presidency would without doubt be “Obama-3.”
Without exception, every single one of the company’s principals, as described on its website, has held a leading post at the White House, the State Department, Treasury, National Security Agency, the CIA, National Security Council, as well as in the military — under Obama. Now, five WestExec staffers are currently on leave from the firm to help “staff Biden’s review teams for the Pentagon, the Treasury Department, the Council of Economic Advisers and other agencies,” Politico reported. A former principal is Avril Haines, Biden’s choice for Director of National Intelligence. Presumably, when Blinken and Flournoy founded the firm in 2017, they were confident that Trump would be defeated in 2020. WestExec was so prepared to “storm a new Democratic West Wing,” Politico explains, that it negotiated a clause when renting its office space that states it can break the lease “if members are called back to public service,” as reported by the American Prospect this month.
