Former GOP operative Michael Ellis placed on administrative leave from NSA top lawyer job [View all]
Source: Washington Post
The director of the National Security Agency, who was ordered over the weekend to install a former GOP political operative as the agency’s top lawyer, on Wednesday placed that individual on administrative leave, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.
The NSA director, Gen. Paul Nakasone, placed Michael Ellis, a former Trump White House official, on leave pending an inquiry by the Pentagon inspector general into the circumstances of his selection as NSA general counsel, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.
Nakasone was ordered on Saturday by then acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller to install Ellis by 6 p.m. Ellis officially started the job on Tuesday.
Ellis, then a political appointee, had been named to the post in November after a civil service competition. But he had not taken up the job pending completion of administrative requirements and concerns by Nakasone about, among other things, whether Ellis’s selection was consistent with personnel policies that apply to senior career officials in the intelligence community.
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