Biden to nominate Elliott Abrams, who lied over Iran-Contra, to key panel
by Mary Yang from US news | The Guardian on (#6CT33)
President's pick for bipartisan public diplomacy commission, 75, convicted of unlawfully withholding information from Congress
Joe Biden intends to nominate Elliott Abrams, a former Trump appointee on Venezuela and Iran who was famously convicted for lying to Congress over the Iran-Contra affair, to the bipartisan US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
The announcement came wrapped in a list of eight Republican picks for bipartisan boards and commissions released in a White House statement on Monday.
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