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Tom Donilon

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(Lawyer,spook,deep state operative)
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BornThomas Edward Donilon
1955-05-14
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
NationalityUS
Alma materCatholic University of America, University of Virginia
Children2
SiblingsMike Donilon,Terry Donilon
SpouseCatherine Russell
PartyDemocratic Party (United States)
Spooky Bilderberger. Has advised the presidential campaigns of Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Joe Biden, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, designing policy, managing conventions, preparing candidates for debates, and overseeing presidential transitions. His brothers are also deep state operatives.

Thomas Edward Donilon is an American lawyer, government official and deep state operative who was the 23rd National Security Advisor in the Obama administration from 2010 to 2013.[1][2] Donilon also worked in the Carter and Clinton administrations, including as Chief of Staff of the U.S. State Department, and sat on the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.

Per 2021, he is Chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute, the global think tank of the biggest capital manager company in the world.[3]

Tom's brother Michael Donilon is Joe Biden’s chief strategist, and has been with him since 1981. In addition to advising the Biden campaign, Michael is also managing director of the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware. Tom and Michael have a third brother, Terry. Terry works Secretary of Communications at the Archdiocese of Boston and spokesman for Boston’s ordinary, Sean Cardinal O'Malley, the most powerful bishop in the United States.[4]

Career

Originally from Providence, Rhode Island, Donilon spent his early career in Democratic politics and then in foreign policy and national security. He has advised the presidential campaigns of Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Joe Biden, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, designing policy, managing conventions, preparing candidates for debates, and overseeing presidential transitions. In 1992, Donilon was named Chief of Staff and Assistant Secretary of State at the U.S. Department of State. During his tenure in the Clinton administration, Donilon played a leading role in NATO's expansion eastwards, the imposing of the the peace treaty in Bosnia, and conducted diplomacy in more than 50 countries.

During the Obama transition, Donilon served together with diplomat Wendy Sherman as Agency Review Team Lead for the State Department.[5] and then, early in the Obama administration, as Deputy National Security Advisor. Donilon was named as National Security Advisor on October 8, 2010.[6] Donilon tendered his resignation as National Security Adviser on June 5, 2013, and was succeeded in office by Susan Rice.[7]

Since leaving government, Donilon was in an advisory role as Chair of the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, appointed by Obama;[8] and as vice chairman of the international law firm O'Melveny and Meyers. During Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, Donilon was co-chair of the Clinton-Kaine Transition Project, as its foreign-policy lead.[9]


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