Published 11/13/2008
by rsinderbrand
at CNN Political Ticker
WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Defense Department will give president-elect Barack Obama's transition team a list of "key decision" that the new administration will face during the first three months of its administration, a Pentagon spokesman said.
The list of issues will be "non-prescriptive," in that it will not be pressing a policy per se, but will [...]
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