President Joe Biden has appointed three new members to an independent board that advises the White House on the effectiveness of the nation’s intelligence community and its plans for the future.
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, former justice of the Supreme Court of California; Ronald Moultrie, former undersecretary of defense for intelligence and security; and Calvin Smyre, former state representative of Georgia, have been appointed members of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, the White House said Friday.
Cuellar is president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a nonprofit research institution dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations to address the most pressing global problems. He was a professor at Stanford University, where he led the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Center for International Security and Cooperation.
Moultrie previously held senior leadership positions throughout the Department of Defense and the intelligence community, including director of operations of the National Security Agency, senior member of the CIA’s Senior Intelligence Service and principal on the secretary of the Navy’s Cybersecurity Readiness Review.
Smyre served nearly five decades in the Georgia General Assembly and helped advance pieces of legislation that established the GA HOPE Scholarship Program, created a new Georgia state flag, penalized hate crimes and repealed the 1863 Citizens Arrest Law.
He was nominated by President Biden and appointed by the State Department to serve as the U.S. representative to the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
