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Blair Tapped as Intelligence Czar
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — Sources tell NBC News that President-elect Obama has picked former Admiral Dennis Blair as the new Director of National Intelligence. Blair, a 34 year Navy veteran, Rhodes Scholar and Russian speaker "is considered a 'brainiac' who has experience in managing large organizations.  A commander of Pacific Command he's known for pushing political and diplomatic engagement over military confrontation."

Obama picks Blair as intel chief
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Barack Obama has selected Admiral Dennis C. Blair to as Director of National Intelligence, the super-executive overseeing all of the US efforts at clandestine information gathering.  The choice again emphasizes the center-right “realist” school of American foreign policy Obama has apparently decided to pursue.  One issue could complicate his confirmation, however: Sources involved in President-elect Obama’s transition confirm that former Admiral Dennis Blair has been selected as the new Director of National Intelligence. A 34-year Navy veteran, Blair was commander of the U.S. ...

NBC: Dennis Blair to Be Head of Intel
Hoffmania! — ... Diplomacy over shocking and awe-ing. Sources involved in President-elect Obama's transition confirm that former Admiral Dennis Blair has been selected as the new Director of National Intelligence. A 34-year Navy veteran, Blair was commander of the U.S. military's Pacific Command, was director of the Joint Staff, but also worked with the CIA and National Security Council. Blair, a Rhodes Scholar and Russian speaker is considered a "brainiac" who has experience in managing large organizations. A commander of ...

Amygdala — DENNIS BLAIR AND EAST TIMOR. Blair has been named as National Intelligence Director. Let's see lots of questions asked about these events of 1999: [...] US officials say that this past April, as militia terror escalated, a top US officer was dispatched to give a message to Jakarta. Adm. Dennis Blair, the US Commander in Chief of the Pacific, leader of all US military forces in the Pacific region, was sent to meet with General Wiranto, the Indonesian armed forces commander, on April 8. Blair's mission, as one senior US official told me, was to ...