Ellen Knight is returning to her outdated function on the Nationwide Safety Council, after she was pushed out of the Trump administration over an argument involving former nationwide safety adviser John Bolton's guide. Knight is returning to her submit because the senior director for information, entry, and data safety administration on the NSC.
Knight oversaw the preliminary prepublication evaluation of Bolton's memoir about his service within the Trump White Home, "The Room The place It Occurred," for categorised info. In a court docket submitting in 2020, she detailed "unprecedented" involvement by political appointees within the White Home who "commandeered what is meant to be an apolitical course of."
"Ellen Knight is a devoted profession public servant," NSC spokesperson Emily Horne informed CBS Information. "We're grateful to have her return to the Nationwide Safety Council because the Senior Director for Information, Entry, and Data Safety Administration and profit from her intensive expertise in categorised info administration."
The Trump administration sued Bolton over his guide to cease it from being revealed, claiming its publication would jeopardize nationwide safety info. The guide was revealed by Simon & Schuster, a division of Paramount World.
Bolton applauded Knight's return in an announcement.
"I applaud the choice of the White Home to reinstate Ellen Knight as an NSC senior director," he mentioned Wednesday. "Trump's disgraceful firing of Ms. Knight is one other stain on his presidency. These within the NSC and White Home Counsel's workplace who tried to intimidate Ms. Knight, after which carried out Trump's private vendetta, needs to be held to account."