Maher Bitar

Maher Bitar serves as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs on the White House’s a National Security Council staff.[1] He served during Barack Obama's administration and Joe Biden's. He is Palestinian.

Maher and his family with U.S. president Barack Obama

Bihar has a Master's degree from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.[2] He studied at Georgetown Law School.[3][4] He was a legal representative for U.S. Representative Adam Schiff.[5]

He succeeds Michael Ellis.[6]

He has written about political organizing among Palestinian refugees.[3] He has worked for the U.S. government since 2011 when he was a student trainee.[7]

Bitar is pro-Palestinian and was in a photo in October 2023 showing support of apartheid of Jews in Israel.

Normam Eisen's book about the first impeachment of U.S. president Donald Trump describes him.[8]

References
  1. "Maher Bitar (L'12)". www.law.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
  2. Bar, Netta (January 25, 2021). "Biden appoints Palestinian American to key intelligence role". JNS.org.
  3. https://www.fmreview.org/sites/fmr/files/FMRdownloads/en/protracted/bitar.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwj9-tOe-7vuAhUbQzABHUPODpU4ChAWMAN6BAgDEAE&usg=AOvVaw0D7RzNwxwai-Aq-Z-lTx6P
  4. "Maher Bitar (L'12)". www.law.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  5. https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/01/25/biden-appoints-palestinian-american-to-key-intelligence-role/
  6. "He helped Adam Schiff impeach Trump. Now he's joining Biden's NSC". www.politico.com. 21 January 2021.
  7. "Employee Profile of Maher B. Bitar — Foreign Affairs Personnel".
  8. Eisen, Norman (28 July 2020). A Case for the American People: The United States V. Donald J. Trump. Crown. ISBN 9780593238431.
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