1. Joseph Maguire was born on August 14,1951 and is an American officer who served as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center and Acting Director of National Intelligence under President Donald Trump.
19 Facts About Joseph Maguire
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Joseph Maguire retired from the United States Navy as a vice admiral in 2010 after 36 years of military service.
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On September 13,2019, the House Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena to Joseph Maguire alleging that he was unlawfully withholding a whistleblower complaint from the committee; he testified before the committee on September 26.
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Joseph Maguire graduated from Manhattan College with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1974.
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Joseph Maguire joined the Navy in November 1974 and spent his career as a Naval Special Warfare Officer.
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From 1979 to 1981, Joseph Maguire was the Flag Lieutenant to Commander Amphibious Forces Seventh Fleet.
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Joseph Maguire served with SEAL Team Two from January 1982 to July 1983 and completed a deployment to Europe with Naval Special Warfare Unit Two.
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Joseph Maguire attended Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and graduated with a master's degree in Scientific and Technical Intelligence in 1985.
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Joseph Maguire then served as Commanding Officer, SEAL Team Two from December 1992 to 1994.
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Joseph Maguire was Commanding Officer, Naval Special Warfare Center from 1997 to 1999 and then Deputy Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command from October 1999 to July 2001.
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From 2004 to 2007, Joseph Maguire served as Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command.
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Joseph Maguire retired from the Navy in 2010 with the rank of Vice Admiral.
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Joseph Maguire currently serves as the Executive Director of The Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Joseph Maguire served for three years on the board of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, a foundation which provides financial assistance to severely wounded special operations troops as well as support for the children of those troops who have died.
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Joseph Maguire then became the President and Chief Executive Officer of the foundation in 2013.
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In June 2018, Joseph Maguire was nominated to be the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center by President Donald Trump.
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Trump then announced he would be replacing Joseph Maguire, who resigned on February 21,2020, and was immediately replaced with Richard Grenell as acting chief.
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Joseph Maguire was acting DNI at the time that a member of the United States Intelligence Community submitted a formal whistleblower complaint to the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, regarding President Donald Trump's communications with a foreign leader; the complaint said Trump had made a troubling "promise" to the foreign leader.
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The report said Joseph Maguire had "expressed his displeasure to White House counsel Pat Cipollone and others that the White House had put him in the untenable position of denying the material to Congress over a claim that it did not fall within his jurisdiction as leader of the intelligence community".