User:Valereee/Miles Taylor (security expert)

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Miles Taylor is a former Trump administration staffer in the Department of Homeland Security who made an ad for Republican Voters Against Trump during the 2020 US Presidential election.

Taylor received a BA in International Security Studies from Indiana University, which he attended as a Harry S. Truman Scholar and Herman B. Wells Scholar.[1] He received an M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University, which he attended as a Marshall Scholar.[1]

Taylor was a political appointee in the administration of George W. Bush.[1] He was a staffer for the House Appropriations Committee and then the Committee on Homeland Security, where he was advisor to its chair, Michael McCaul.[1] He was McCaul's chief speechwriter and the Majority Staff Lead for the congressional task force on Combating Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel.[1] In 2015 he was named a Penn Kemble Fellow.[2]

In September of 2019 Taylor was hired by Google as a government affairs and public policy manager with a title of Head of National Security.[3][4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Miles Taylor". National Endowment for Democracy. 2015-09-22. Retrieved 2020-08-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "2015-2016 Penn Kemble Fellows". National Endowment for Democracy. Retrieved 2020-08-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "Google Hired A Former Top DHS Staffer Who Once Defended The Travel Ban". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  4. ^ Palmer, Anna; Sherman, Jake. "POLITICO Playbook: Behind the president's struggles with impeachment". POLITICO. Retrieved 2020-08-20.