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Obama to name Dennis Blair as intelligence director

 

Published 12/20/2008 at L.A. Times - Politics

Blair is the former head of the U.S. Pacific Command. The search for a candidate to head the CIA has not been settled. > President-elect Barack Obama has selected retired Navy Adm. Dennis C. Blair to serve as the nation's next intelligence director but has not concluded his search for someone to lead the CIA, according to government officials familiar with the selection process. (link)

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