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Published 1/9/2009 at Reuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama named two intelligence outsiders on Friday to head the top U.S. spy agencies and play a leading role in restoring what he has called a tarnished U.S. image abroad.
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