Several leadership changes are coming to the Justice Department’s National Security Division, with FBI chief of staff John Carlin and the director of intelligence programs Anita Singh joining the division just as chief of staff Donald Vieira departs.
Vieira, who has held the chief of staff position since March 2009, will leave the department to join the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as a partner.
Before joining the division, he served as deputy chief counsel and staff director of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He has also been a federal prosecutor in the DOJ’s Counterespionage Section.
But two new additions will beef up the division’s leadership team.
Singh will join the National Security Division’s leadership as deputy chief of staff and counsel.
She comes from the DOJ’s Criminal Division, where she works on detail with the White House’s National Security Staff. She has also served as a counsel in the division’s front office and as a trial attorney in the honors program.
Also joining the division, Carlin currently works as chief of staff and senior counsel to FBI Director Robert Mueller, but he was recently selected to join the National Security Division as principle deputy assistant attorney and chief of staff.
Before the FBI, Carlin joined the DOJ through the Attorney General’s Honors Program and worked as a trial attorney in the Tax Division, an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and the national coordinator of the Justice Department’s Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property program.
