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    Trump appointee who downsized counterterrorism efforts to resign

    by David Willman, Los Angeles Times Oct 02, 2019 3 minutes

    WASHINGTON - James F. McDonnell - a presidential appointee who over the past two years downsized the Department of Homeland Security's efforts to prevent terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction - has agreed to resign.

    McDonnell's resignation, they said, comes at the request of acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin K. McAleenan and would become effective at Thursday, Oct. 3, according to an email McDonnell sent his staff at 12:57 p.m. Wednesday. McDonnell's seven-sentence memo did not provide a

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