that lists himself as “Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense and the War Department,” which hasn’t existed since 1947.Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the 34-year-old who was installed in November as the acting undersecretary of defense for intelligence, which oversees the Pentagon’s three intel agencies: the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
In other cases, the “acting” heads appear just plain unqualified. In firing Esper, Trump confoundingly passed over the Pentagon’s Senate-confirmed deputy to install Christopher Miller, who worked as a deputy assistant secretary at the Pentagon last year until he was installed as the head of the National Counterterrorism Center in August.
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