PRESS RELEASE from Newt 2012
February 15, 2012

 
Atlanta, GA - Newt 2012 today announced that Stephen Yates and Christian Whiton have joined us as Senior Campaign Advisors.  In addition, Mr. Yates will be the Director of National Security Staff and Mr. Whiton will be the Deputy Director.
 
Stephen Yates served as Vice President Cheney's Deputy National Security Advisor from 2001-2005.  Mr. Yates previously was a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation from 1996-2001, and from 1991-1996 was an international affairs analyst at the Department of Defense.
 
Christian Whiton served as a Department of State official from 2003-2009, first as a special advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, and then as a deputy special envoy.
 
"We need fundamental change in Washington to confront the foreign threats that Barack Obama and our elite foreign policy establishment have allowed to draw ever nearer," Newt Gingrich said.  "As we continue the process of building out my campaign team, I am pleased that Steve and Christian will manage an expanded national security staff.  They bring foreign policy experience and the determination to challenge the Washington bureaucracy that other campaigns lack."
 
Herman Pirchner is Chairman of Newt's Foreign Policy Advisory Group, which includes James Woolsey, Robert McFarlane, David Wurmser, Bill Schneider, Norman Bailey, John Fonte, Ilan Berman, Ken DeGraffenreid, Tina Ramirez, Kiron Skinner, Abraham Wagner, Stephen Yates, Christian Whiton, Otto Reich, Angelo Codevilla, Fredo Arias King, George Janis, James E Livingston, Lani Kass, Phil Christianson, and Richard McCormack.