Trump picks Navy veteran as top counterterrorism official

Navy Times: President Donald Trump is nominating a Navy special operations veteran to be the nation’s top counterterrorism official.

Trump announced Friday that he’s picked Joseph Maguire to lead the National Counterterrorism Center.

Since 2013, Maguire has been president and chief executive officer of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. His last government assignment was deputy director for strategic operational planning at the counterterrorism center where he was a member of the National Security Council’s counterterrorism security group.

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