For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 2, 2001
Statement by the Press Secretary
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice announced today the
appointment of John B. Bellinger, III, as Senior Associate Counsel to
the President and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council,
effective February 12.
Mr. Bellinger served as Counsel for National Security Matters in the
Criminal Division of the Department of Justice from 1997 to
2001. He previously served as Counsel to the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence (1996), as General Counsel of the Commission
on the Roles and Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community
(1995-1996), and as Special Assistant to Director of Central
Intelligence William H. Webster (1988-1991). From 1991 to
1995, Mr. Bellinger practiced law with Wilmer Cutler & Pickering in
Washington, D.C.
Mr. Bellinger received an A.B. from Princeton University's Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, an M.A. in Foreign
Affairs from the University of Virginia, and a J.D. from Harvard Law
School. He and his wife, Dawn, live in Arlington, Virginia,
with their two daughters, Catharine and Ann.
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