Avril Haines
Avril Danica Haines (born August 27, 1969) is an American lawyer who serves as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in the Biden administration.
Avril Haines was sworn in as the Director of National Intelligence on January 21, 2021. She is the seventh Senate-confirmed DNI in our nation’s history and the first woman to lead the U.S. Intelligence Community.
Director Haines has deep national security experience. During the Obama administration, she served as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor from 2015-2017, during which time she led the National Security Council’s Deputies Committee.
From 2013-2015, Haines was the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. She was the first woman to hold both of these positions. She initially joined the federal government as a civil servant and over the last two decades has worked in all three branches of government, in and outside of the intelligence community, and in academia as a research scholar at Columbia University and a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. 1)
Early Life and Family
Haines was born in New York City on August 27, 1969 to Adrian Rappin and Thomas Haines.
Parents
Thomas Haines is a biochemist at Rockefeller University who focuses on the structure and function of the living cell membrane.
Brookings Resume
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Avril Haines is a deputy director of Columbia World Projects, a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School, and a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. She was appointed by President Obama to serve as a member of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service, and serves on a number of boards and advisory groups, including the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Bio Advisory Group, the Board of Trustees for the Vodafone Foundation, the Advisory Board for Foreign Policy for America, and the Refugees International Advisory Council.
Prior to joining Columbia University, Avril served as assistant to the president and principal deputy national security advisor to President Obama. Before that, she served as the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Avril also held a number of senior legal positions in the government, including legal adviser to the National Security Council. Avril received her bachelor’s in physics from the University of Chicago and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.
Affiliations: American Bar Association, Standing Committee on Law and National Security, member Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Encryption Working Group, member Fairfax Security Solutions, LLC, consultant Foreign Policy for America, advisory board, member National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service, member National Security Action, advisory council and governance board, member Network 20/20, advisory council, member Nuclear Threat Initiative, advisory group, member Palantir, consultant Refugees International, policy advisory council, member Syracuse University, National Security Practice, distinguished professor Tikehau Investment Management, international advisory board, member U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Simon Skojdt Center for the Prevention of Genocide Advisory Group, co-chair Vodafone Foundation, trustee WestExec Advisors, consultant Women in National Security, leadership council, honorary advisory committee World Economic Forum, Global Future Council on Geopolitics, member 2)
Disappearing History
Controversial Data-Mining Firm Palantir Vanishes From Biden Adviser’s Biography After She Joins Campaign
Within a few days of joining the Biden campaign, the biography of former top intelligence official Avril Haines no longer listed her work for Palantir.
The Intercept by Murtaza Hussain June 26 2020,
In addition to her past national security work and impressive presence in the D.C. think tank world, Haines has in the past described herself as a former consultant for the controversial data-mining firm Palantir. Haines’s biography page at the Brookings Institute, where she is listed as a nonresident senior fellow, boasted of this affiliation until at least last week, when it suddenly no longer appeared on the page.
The nature of the consulting work that Haines did for Palantir is not clear. As of press time, requests for comment to her, the Biden campaign, Palantir, and Brookings were not answered. Prior to being removed from the Brookings page, the connection to the data-mining company was listed alongside a long list of other affiliations that were similarly pared down.
Palantir’s history that raises questions. The company has also been accused in the past of plotting to intimidate journalists involved in reporting documents released by WikiLeaks. And Palantir has also provided services to police — another move that appears to put the company out of step with the current political moment. The company also aided the National Security Agency by creating the tools to facilitate worldwide spying. 3)
Great Reset Agenda
Cloak and dagger’ military-intelligence outfit at center of US digital vaccine passport push Jeremy Loffredo and Max Blumenthal·October 26, 2021
Private spies and CIA firm among MITRE’s COVID-19 coalition
As a member of VCI’s governing steering group, MITRE runs its own “COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition” while describing itself as “a longstanding, trusted partner to the defense and intelligence communities.”
Among the members of MITRE’s own COVID-19 coalition is Palantir, a private intelligence firm founded in 2003 by Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel. Palantir has established itself as a leader in predictive policing programs and raked in lucrative contracts with the CIA. The firm once participated in a proposed smear campaign against anti-corporate activists and journalistic critics including Glenn Greenwald.
Avril Haines, the current Director of National Intelligence and CIA’s former Deputy Director was paid $180,000 to consult for Palantir – a gig she scrubbed from her bio.
Haines was also a lead participant in the Gates, WEF, and John Hopkins Center for Health and Security-sponsored Event 201 pandemic simulation in October 2019. During this exercise, public health professionals, intelligence officials, and business leaders gamed out a hypothetical coronavirus epidemic that killed 65 million people worldwide.
Haines emphasized to fellow panelists the need to counter criticism of the official pandemic response by “flood[ing] the zone with trusted sources” of media and cultural influencers “in order to try to amplify the message that’s coming through.”
Palantir has also provided Covid data-tracking technology to the UK’s National Health Service alongside Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. Conservative British political strategist Dominic Cummings, who enjoys links to Palantir and provided the firm with special access to the Prime Minister’s office, has been advising Boris Johnson and the UK government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) on Covid policy.
Back in the US, Palantir has supplied the US Department of Homeland Security and Center for Disease Control with various Covid-related technologies.
The CIA’s venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, is also listed among MITRE’s Covid-19 Healthcare Coalition.
This September, the Vice President of In-Q-Tel’s technical staff, Dan Hanfling, was quoted in the Washington Post arguing that unvaccinated people should be denied healthcare in the name of triage: “that group of individuals who have willingly chosen not to vaccinate, for illegitimate reasons, it would be fair to place them at the back of the line,” Hanfling proclaimed..
The Washington Post did not note Hanfling’s affiliation with the CIA; instead, it described him simply as an “emergency physician.” 4)