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Published 1/7/2009 by Karen DeYoung and Joby Warrick at Wash Post In Congress
President-elect Barack Obama said yesterday that he has selected a "top-notch intelligence team" that would provide the "unvarnished" information his administration needs, rather than "what they think the president wants to hear."
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