Counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan will be replaced by Lisa Monaco, former head of the justice department's National Security Division.

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Alexiev served for nearly two decades as a senior analyst in the national security division of the Rand Corporation.

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From September 2001 to June 2012, he served as the Chief of the Intelligence Branch, National Security Division, in a career Senior Executive Service position.

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What happened after that is the Department of Justice's National Security Division had launched this preliminary investigation just days after Hayden announced that they destroyed the tapes.

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Copies of this correspondence will be provided to the Department of Justice's Counterespionage Section in the National Security Division, which is responsible for enforcing FARA and prosecuting violations of that act.

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This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys William Weinreb and Aloke Chakravarty from the Anti-Terrorism and National Security Unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts, with assistance from the Counterterrorism Section of the Justice Department's National Security Division.

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"We have just gone through a period when people in Japan felt extreme anxiety about national security, " Yasuhide Nakayama, a lawmaker who heads the LDP's National Defense Division responsible for the recommendations, said in an interview Thursday.

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