The appointments to the panel come following a similar purge and replacement at the Defense Business Board.
The Pentagon named eight new members to the Defense Policy Board on Monday, including Trump loyalist and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, less than a month after purging many of the group’s influential members.
The appointments to the panel, which advises Pentagon leaders on policy issues, follow a similar purge and replacement at the Defense Business Board, another top advisory group.
New members: Chief among the new board appointees is Gingrich, an ally of President Donald Trump.
The other appointees are Thomas Carter, Edward Luttwak, Scott O’Grady, Thomas Stewart, former Rep. Randy Forbes, former Sen. Robert Smith and Charles Glazer.
O’Grady, a former Air Force F-16 pilot who was shot down over Bosnia in 1995 and survived for nearly a week in hostile territory, was nominated by Trump in November to be assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. The Senate hasn’t acted on O’Grady’s 11th-hour nomination.
CNN reported that O’Grady, a Trump supporter, shared baseless conspiracy theories on Twitter that called the president’s loss to former Vice President Joe Biden a “coup.”
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The Pentagon has named eight new members to the Defense Policy Board including Newt Gingrich. The appointments come less than a month after a purge of many of the group's influential members.https://t.co/5nqgPubLAi
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