For the politically sensitive post of White House counsel, Mr. Trump chose Donald F. McGahn II, a Washington election lawyer who pushed to deregulate campaign finance and election laws.  Story highlights McFarland will be the Deputy National Security Advisor 
 
 McFarland served in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations 
 
 (CNN) National security analyst KT McFarland will join President-elect Donald Trump's administration as the deputy national security adviser, the transition announced Friday, also naming Donald McGahn, general counsel for Trump's campaign, to be White House counsel. For the equally critical job of deputy national security adviser, Mr. Trump chose K. T. McFarland, an aide in three Republican White Houses and a Fox News commentator. Obama Critic 
 
 “I am proud that KT has once again decided to serve our country and join my national security team,” Trump said in a statement. “She has tremendous experience and innate talent that will complement the fantastic team we are assembling, which is crucial because nothing is more important than keeping our people safe.” 
 
 McFarland would report to retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, who was named Trump’s national security adviser last week. “Foreign policy, national security, defense is not the president-elect’s skill,” she said last week on Fox News. She has been highly critical of President Obama’s approach to combating terrorism — a view that aligns her with Mr. Trump’s choice for national security adviser, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn.
– In naming KT McFarland his deputy national security adviser Friday, Donald Trump is adding another person with "hard-line views on the fight against terrorism" to his team, the New York Times reports. According to Bloomberg, McFarland served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affair under Ronald Reagan. She also worked for the Nixon and Ford administrations, spent time as a national security analyst and adviser to Henry Kissinger, and is a frequent guest on Fox News. She also unsuccessfully ran for Hillary Clinton's senate seat in 2006. In her new position, McFarland will work with Trump's new national security adviser, former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. McFarland has been a frequent critic of President Obama's approach to terrorism and says the threat of global Islamism needs to be addressed. "She has tremendous experience and innate talent that will complement the fantastic team we are assembling, which is crucial because nothing is more important than keeping our people safe," CNN quotes Trump as saying in a statement. In a statement of her own, McFarland says: "Nobody has called foreign policy right more than President-elect Trump, and he gets no credit for it." Flynn added in a tweet that McFarland "will help us #MAGA." Her appointment doesn't require senate confirmation.