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Ken Wainstein
Official portrait, 2022
Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis
Incumbent
Assumed office June 13, 2022
President	Joe Biden
Preceded by	David Glawe
4th United States Homeland Security Advisor
In office March 30, 2008 – January 20, 2009
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Frances Townsend
Succeeded by	John O. Brennan
United States Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division
In office September 28, 2006 – March 30, 2008
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Patrick Rowan
United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
In office May 2004 – September 28, 2006
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Roscoe Howard
Succeeded by	Ronald Machen
Personal details
Born	Kenneth Leonard Wainstein 1962 (age 61–62)
Education	University of Virginia (BA) University of California, Berkeley (JD)

Kenneth Leonard Wainstein (born 1962) is an American lawyer. He served as the first assistant attorney general for national security, and later as the homeland security advisor to United States President George W. Bush. In 2022 under the Biden administration, he was appointed under secretary of homeland security for intelligence and analysis.

Education

Wainstein is a graduate of the University of Virginia and earned his JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Career

Wainstein worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as General Counsel and as Chief of Staff to the FBI Director. He was the United States attorney for the District of Columbia.

On September 26, 2006, he was sworn in as the Department of Justice's assistant attorney general responsible for National Security.

Wainstein was appointed homeland security advisor by President George W. Bush on March 30, 2008. He was also assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism and chaired the Homeland Security Council. He was appointed as the "national continuity coordinator" under the auspices of National Security Presidential Directive 51.

Wainstein also serves as a member of the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense, a group that encourages and advocates changes to government policy to strengthen national biodefense.

In 2020, Wainstein, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement asserting that President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "to that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him."

In October 2020, Wainstein signed a letter, along with nineteen other Republican-appointed former U.S. attorneys, calling President Donald Trump "a threat to the rule of law in our country" and endorsing Joe Biden.

On November 5, 2021, President Joseph Biden nominated Wainstein for the position of under secretary of homeland security for intelligence and analysis. The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence held its open hearing on his nomination on January 12, 2022. The United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held its hearing on his nomination on February 3, 2022. The full Senate voted to confirm Wainstein 63–35 on June 7, 2022. He was sworn in on June 13, 2022.

See also

• List of Jewish American jurists

References

1. ^ "Kenneth L. Wainstein Sworn in as First Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division: Other Senior National Security Division Officials Announced". United States Department of Justice. 2006-09-26. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
2. "Statement by DNI Haines on the Confirmation of Kenneth L. Wainstein to Lead the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis". www.dni.gov. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
3. ^ "Kenneth L. Wainstein, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland Security." Roll call vote 217, via Senate.gov
4. "Official Bio". Retrieved October 25, 2011.
5. "National Security Presidential Directive". Retrieved October 25, 2011.
6. "Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense". www.biodefensestudy.org. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
7. "Former Republican National Security Officials for Biden". Defending Democracy Together. 20 August 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
8. Hamburger, Tom; Barrett, Devlin (October 27, 2020). "Former U.S. attorneys — all Republicans — back Biden, saying Trump threatens 'the rule of law'". Washington Post. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
9. "Hearings | Intelligence Committee". www.intelligence.senate.gov. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
10. "Nominations of William J. Valdez to be Under Secretary for Management, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Dimitri Kusnezov to be Under Secretary for Science & Technology, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; and the Honorable Kenneth L. Wainstein to be Under Secretary for Intelligence & Analysis, U.S. Department of Homeland Security". U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. 2022-02-03. Archived from the original on 2022-02-01. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
11. United States Department of Homeland Security (June 13, 2022). "Today @SecMayorkas swore in Kenneth L. Wainstein, our new Undersecretary for Intelligence and Analysis" (Tweet). Retrieved 2022-06-17 – via Twitter.

External links

Media related to Kenneth L. Wainstein at Wikimedia Commons

• Appearances on C-SPAN

v t e United States homeland security advisors
Ridge Gordon Townsend Wainstein Brennan Monaco Bossert Joyce (acting) Fears Brown Nesheiwat Sherwood-Randall Miller (designate)
Currently styled as Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

• 1962 births
• Biden administration personnel
• George W. Bush administration personnel
• Living people
• UC Berkeley School of Law alumni
• United States assistant attorneys general
• United States Attorneys for the District of Columbia
• University of Virginia alumni