Jane Harman, a former nine-term congresswoman who served on House security committees, called it "magnificent," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
And John C. Martin, who served on the security detail, was also removed from the team and had his gun and badge taken away after raising concerns about how Mr. Pruitt's security was being handled.
Some of the 15 members have served on his security team and traveled in the United States during visits by senior Saudi officials, including the crown prince, according to passport records reviewed by The Post.
He is the one Democrat unfalteringly to pass the national security test, having served on the national security council for eight years and been known in the Clinton administration as hawkish.
In the mid-1990s, Mr. Berezovsky served on Russia's security council, only to be dismissed from that post by Mr. Yeltsin in 1997.
When Rubio served on the Florida security committee, he already had begun to cement an image in the capital as a young man in a hurry, a lawmaker who wanted to be everywhere at once.
"It's much easier to quantify the casualties than the benefits of a war," says Peter D. Feaver, a political science professor at Duke University in North Carolina, who served on the national security staffs of Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush and worked on the Iraq war for George W. Bush.
Judge Robertson, who served on the national security court that oversees government surveillance from 2002 until resigning in December 2005, also criticized the surveillance court system because only the government generally submits filings to it, so judges do not benefit from adversarial debate.
"It does seem that they have drawn the conclusion that it is in their interest to move as quickly as possible to obtain additional stocks of separated plutonium," said Daniel Poneman, an expert on proliferation who served on the national security council for President George H.W. Bush and President Clinton.
I am a member of the Internet Engineering Task Force, and am currently serving on the Security Area Directorate of the IETF.
