2 Quotes & Sayings By Michael E Krauss
Michael Krauss is the president of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC and a former United States Ambassador to Israel. Ambassador Krauss was appointed by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate in 2008. He served as U.S
Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs from 2001 to 2005 and as President George W. Bush's nominee to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2005, but withdrew his nomination when Senator John McCain considered it a potential conflict of interest. He also served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, within which capacity he was responsible for coordinating U.S.
responses to terrorism incidents around the world, from the September 11 attacks through the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and 2002, respectively; he also coordinated U.S. responses to terrorist incidents in Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen during his tenure in government service.