It made it all the way up to the head of the national security division, John O'Neill, who would become a mentor and friend (O'Neill later became head of security at the World Trade Center and was killed on 9/11).
His appointment comes one month after the head of the national security division, John Carlin, announced a series of new hires and changes within the division to counter growing threats of state-sponsored cyber spying and violations of export control laws.
The JDA also tipped off the head of the national security division in the prime minister's office.
Oliver Meier, the deputy head of the international security division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, said: "Trump's sudden decision to terminate INF puts Germans in a difficult spot.
NBC News reported in January that Carl Kline, who until recently served as the head of the personnel security division and was Ms. Newbold's boss, had overruled a decision by career security officials concerned about granting Mr. Kushner a clearance.
"The way Viber handles to pop-up its messages on smartphones' lock screen is unusual, resulting in its failure to control programming logic, causing the flaw to appear," said Nguyen Minh Duc, head of Bkav's security division.
In March, Marc B. Minor, former head of the securities division for the New Jersey attorney general, was named bureau chief of the investor protection unit in the New York attorney general's office.
Mr. Taubman is a former co-head of the institutional securities division of Morgan Stanley and a star merger banker whose credits include Comcast's takeover of NBC Universal.
