Kashyap Pramod Patel, popularly known as Kash Patel, was a former senior anti-terrorism attorney
Washington:
Indian-American Kash Patel has been appointed chief of staff to US Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller, the Pentagon announced.
The Pentagon’s new appointment comes a day after Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper and appointed the director of the National Counter-Terrorism Center, Chris Miller, as Acting Secretary of Defense.
Chris Miller assumed the roles and responsibilities of the new position on Monday, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
Kash Patel, currently on the staff of the National Security Council, has been appointed by Acting Secretary Chris Miller as its Chief of Staff, the Pentagon announced Tuesday.
She replaces Jen Stewart, who resigned earlier that day.
Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Dr. James Anderson, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Joseph Kernan have submitted letters of resignation.
Kashyap Pramod Patel, popularly known as Kash Patel, had previously served as a senior counterterrorism attorney on the House Standing Select Committee.
In June 2019, Patel, 39, was appointed senior director of the National Security Council (NSC) Counter-Terrorism Directorate at the White House.
New York-born Kash Patel has his roots in Gujarat. However, her parents are from East Africa, the mother from Tanzania and the father from Uganda. They came to the United States from Canada in 1970. The family moved to Queens in New York, which is often referred to as Little India, in the late 1970s.
After his studies in New York and college in Richmond, Virginia, and law school in New York, Kash Patel went to Florida, where he was a state public defender for four years and then a federal public defender for another four years.
From Florida, he moved to Washington DC as a terrorism prosecutor in the Department of Justice. Here he was an international terrorism prosecutor for approximately three and a half years. During this period, he worked on cases around the world, in America in East Africa, as well as in Uganda and Kenya.
While still employed by the Department of Justice, he went as a civilian to join the Special Operations Command in the Department of Defense.
At the Pentagon, he served as a Justice Department attorney with individuals from the Special Forces and worked on collaborative interagency operations around the world.
After a year in this delicate position, Congressman Davin Nunes, chairman of the House Standing Committee on Intelligence, appointed him as senior adviser on fighting terrorism.
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