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Avril Haines
Deputy National Security Advisor
In office
January 11, 2015 – January 20, 2017
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byTony Blinken
Succeeded byK. T. McFarland
4th Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
In office
August 9, 2013 – January 10, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byMichael Morell
Succeeded byDavid Cohen
Personal details
Born
Avril Danica Haines

(1969-08-29) August 29, 1969 (age 55)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseDavid Davighi
EducationUniversity of Chicago (BA)
Georgetown University (JD)

Avril Danica Haines (born August 29, 1969) is an American lawyer and former government official who served as the White House Deputy National Security Advisor, serving in Barack Obama's administration.[1] She previously served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the first woman to hold this position.[2] Prior to her appointment to the CIA, she served as Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs in the Office of White House Counsel.

Her term as CIA Deputy Director coincided with the global surveillance disclosures, the CIA hacking into the computers of U.S. Senate employees, and the release of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture. She replaced Tony Blinken as White House Deputy National Security Advisor, a position she held until the end of the Obama administration.[3] In 2020 she was revealed to be Joe Biden's nominee for director of national intelligence.[4]

Early life and education

Haines was born in the New York City borough of Manhattan on August 29, 1969, to parents Adrian (née Rappin) and Thomas Haines.[5] Her mother was a painter. Adrian developed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and contracted avian tuberculosis, leading to her death when Haines was fifteen years old.[5] Her father is a biochemist and professor emeritus at City College, who helped found the City University of New York medical school, where he served as the chair of the biochemistry department.[6] After graduating from Hunter College High School, Haines traveled to Japan for a year and enrolled in Kodokan, an elite judo institute in Tokyo.[5] In 1988, Haines enrolled in the University of Chicago where she studied theoretical physics. While attending the University of Chicago, Haines worked repairing car engines at a mechanic shop in Hyde Park.[5] In 1991 Haines had taken up flying lessons in New Jersey, where she met her future husband, David Davighi. She later graduated with her Bachelor of Arts in physics in 1992.[7]

Haines in 2013

In 1992, Haines moved to Baltimore, Maryland where she enrolled as a doctorate student at Johns Hopkins University. However, later that year, Haines dropped out and alongside her future husband, purchased an auctioned bar in Fell's Point, Baltimore which had been seized in a drug raid;[5] turning the former bar into an independent bookstore and café.[8] She named the store Adrian's Book Cafe, after her late mother; Adrian's realistic oil paintings filled the store.[8] The bookstore won City Paper's "Best Independent Bookstore" in 1997 and was known for having an unusual collection of literary offerings, local writers, erotica reading nights, and small press publications.[9] Adrian's hosted a number of literary readings, including erotica readings, which became a media focus when she was appointed by the President to be the Deputy Director of the CIA.[10][11] She served as the president of the Fell's Point Business Association until 1998,[12] when she enrolled at the Georgetown University Law Center. Haines later received her Juris Doctor from Georgetown in 2001.[13]

Career

L to R: Susan E. Rice, Avril Haines and Lisa Monaco, (2015)

From 2001 until 2002, Haines was a legal officer at the Hague Conference on Private International Law.[14] From 2002 until 2003, she served as a law clerk for United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Judge Danny Julian Boggs.[15]

From 2003 until 2006, Haines worked in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the Department of State, first in the Office of Treaty Affairs and then in the Office of Political Military Affairs.[16]

From 2007 until 2008, Haines worked for the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations as Deputy Chief Counsel for the Majority Senate Democrats (under then-chairman Joe Biden).[17] She then worked for the State Department as the assistant legal adviser for treaty affairs from 2008 to 2010.[18]

In 2010, Haines was appointed to serve in the office of the White House Counsel as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs at the White House.[19]

On April 18, 2013, Obama nominated Haines to serve as Legal Adviser of the Department of State, to fill the position vacated after Harold Hongju Koh resigned to return to teaching at Yale Law School.[20] However, on June 13, 2013, Obama withdrew Haines' nomination to be Legal Adviser of the Department of State, choosing instead to select her as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.[21] Haines was nominated to replace Michael Morell, the CIA's deputy and former acting director. The office of the deputy director is not subject to Senate confirmation, with Haines subsequently taking office on August 9, 2013, the final day of Morrell's tenure.[22] Haines was the first woman to ever hold the office of the deputy director, while Gina Haspel was the first female career intelligence officer to be named Deputy Director.[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] In 2015 Haines was tasked with determining whether CIA personnel involved in the hacking of the computers of Senate staffers who were authoring the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture would be disciplined. Haines chose not to discipline them, overruling the CIA Inspector General.[31] Subsequently, she was involved in the CIA project of redacting the Senate report[32] for release. She was also the first female Deputy National Security Advisor (DNSA).

During her years in Obama White House, Haines played a significant role working closely with John Brennan in determining administration policy on "targeted killings" by drones. The ACLU strongly criticized the Obama policy on drone killings as failing to meet international human rights norms.[33] During the Democratic National Committee email leak during the 2016 presidential campaign, Haines as DNSA convened a series of meetings to discuss ways to respond to the hacking and leaks.[34]

After government service

In 2018, Haines was an outspoken supporter of President Trump's controversial nomination of Gina Haspel to serve as CIA director. While not commenting on Haspel's record, she praised her knowledge of the agency and intelligence, a position hailed by the White House as it promoted Haspel's confirmation.[35][36] Haspel was reportedly involved in the operations of CIA secret black site torture sites in 2002 and 2003. She also has admitted her role in helping destroy videotapes of torture by CIA interrogators.[37] At least one progressive nonprofit leader has said he or she feared "professional reprisal" for speaking out publicly in criticism of Haines' support of Haspel as CIA director.[38]

After leaving the White House, Haines was appointed to multiple posts at the Columbia University. She is a senior research scholar working on the Columbia World Projects, a program designed to bring to bear academic scholarship on some of the most basic and fundamental challenges the world is facing. Haines is also a fellow at the Human Rights Institute and National Security Law Program at Columbia Law School.[39]

Haines also serves on the bipartisan National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service. The commission was created by Congress both to develop recommendations to inspire more Americans, in particular young people, to participate in public service and to review the military selective service process.[40]

Haines has consulted for a variety of for-profit entities with business interests related to American national security policy, including Palantir Technologies and WestExec Advisors.[41] In late June 2020, shortly after taking on the role of overseeing foreign policy and national security considerations for the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign transition team, references to Palantir and other corporations for which she had worked were abruptly removed from her resume as posted on the website of the Brookings Institution, in relation to a fellowship she held there.[42] In 2020, Haines was named a candidate for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency or Director of National Intelligence under the Biden Administration.[43]

References

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  2. ^ AFP (2013-06-12). "Avril Haines appointed first female CIA deputy director". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
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  19. ^ Kimberly Dozier (June 13, 2013). "CIA deputy director retires". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
  20. ^ White House Office of the Press Secretary (April 18, 2013). "Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate". whitehouse.gov.
  21. ^ Scott Shane (June 12, 2013). "C.I.A. to Get First Woman in No. 2 Job". The New York Times.
  22. ^ Karen DeYoung, Greg Miller (June 12, 2013). "CIA's deputy director to be replaced with White House lawyer". The Washington Post.
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  39. ^ "Avril Haines | Inspire2Serve". www.inspire2serve.gov. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
  40. ^ "Who We Are | Inspire2Serve". www.inspire2serve.gov. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
  41. ^ https://www.brookings.edu/experts/avril-haines/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  42. ^ Murtaza Hussain (June 26, 2020). "CONTROVERSIAL DATA-MINING FIRM PALANTIR VANISHES FROM BIDEN ADVISER'S BIOGRAPHY AFTER SHE JOINS CAMPAIGN". The Intercept.
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Government offices
Preceded by Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
2013–2015 		Succeeded by
Preceded by United States Deputy National Security Advisor
2015-2017 		Succeeded by
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