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Published 11/5/2008 at Reuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama will get his first intelligence briefing as president-elect on Thursday, a U.S. official said, as the first-term senator prepared to face security challenges from terrorism to a resurgent Russia.
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