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Obama to officially announce Panetta, Blair nominations Friday

 

Published 1/9/2009 by rsinderbrand at CNN Political Ticker

(CNN) – Two officials close to the transition confirm to CNN that on Friday morning the President-elect will announce Leon Panetta as CIA Director and Dennis Blair as Director of National Intelligence. The officials also say that John Brennan will be named Friday as White House homeland security adviser and deputy national security adviser for [...] (link)

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