BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN/NSA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The National Security Agency is moving forward with hiring a Trump administration loyalist, the agency said on Sunday, after the acting defense secretary ordered he be made the spy agency’s top lawyer…
Mr. Ellis’s allies had pushed for him to be installed before President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is inaugurated. While it will be difficult to fire Mr. Ellis under Civil Service rules, the Biden administration could easily reassign him to another, less important post…
When he was on the Intelligence Committee, Mr. Ellis was a trusted adviser to Representative Devin Nunes, Republican of California. Mr. Ellis held various roles in the Trump administration, including serving as a lawyer for the National Security Council and then the White House’s senior director for intelligence.”
-Julian E. Barnes and Michael S. Schmidt, “N.S.A. Installs Trump Loyalist as Top Lawyer Days Before Biden Takes Office,” nytimes.com, Jan. 19, 2021