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In a case that should have the Founders of the USA spinning in their graves, The Intercept has got hold of documents relating to Peter Thiel's NZ citizenship. These documents reveal that Thiel would not normally qualify for citizenship, which requires the holder to actually reside in New Zealand. NZ law provides for citizenship under "exceptional circumstances and public interest" for people who don't plan to live in NZ.
Thiel's extreme wealth was the exceptional circumstance that allowed for citizenship and which in turn allowed Thiel to avoid certain administrative protocols that a non-citizen would have had to follow relating to the purchase of his large estate in NZ.
As part of taking up citizenship, Thiel had to pledge an oath of loyalty to HM Queen Elizabeth II (in her role as Queen of New Zealand), which certainly raises questions about either his sincerity or his fitness to be an advisor to the President.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 06 2017, @05:34AM
Just on the off-chance that there are actually requirements to be an "advisor" to the president, I did a quick Google search. I found nothing at all.
As for examples of people with foreign loyalties giving "bad advice" to presidents, we need go no further that this:
A 1939 letter from Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard Letter warned President Roosevelt that the growing German threat in Europe might seek to develop atomic weaponry and that the United States ought to develop its own research program to push the nuclear agenda forward.
http://www.allday.com/albert-einstein-and-the-people-who-built-the-atomic-bomb-2180777162.html [allday.com]
By the fall of 1941, it was clear that atomic research and the war effort needed to bond together. And so, under the command of the Army, a top policy group was established, made up of the President, Vice President Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson (right), Chief of Staff of the Army General George Marshall (left), Vannevar Bush, and chemist turned diplomat James B. Conant.
One of their first acts was to confirm American research support for and collaboration with the British nation via a direct telegram to Prime Minister Winston Churchill.