Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s pick for a top Pentagon position has a history of promoting British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited dossier that played a key role in the Trump-Russia collusion probe. Biden said in a statement on Wednesday that if he wins the White House, Colin Kahl, who once served as deputy assistant to former President Barack Obama and as national security adviser to the former vice president, is his nominee for undersecretary of defense for policy. Kahl, who now serves as co-director of Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and is a professor of political science at Stanford University, would “help lead the Department of Defense with integrity and resolve” and “safeguard the lives and interests of the American people,” Biden said. “I know how hard the professionals in Policy work every day to keep America safe,” Kahl wrote in a tweet following Biden’s announcement. “I would be …Read More
