latimes.com - 11/27/2008
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Reporting from Washington -- The leading candidate to be CIA director for President-elect Barack Obama withdrew from consideration Tuesday amid mounting opposition from liberal groups, marking the first time that the incoming administration appeared to bow to outside pressure on a high-level ...
harpers.org - 11/25/2008
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harpers.org —
Today at a press conference in Chicago Barack
Obama introduced his economic team. The market reacted by
giving the president-elect a big kiss, with the Dow closing up about 400 points. The team shaping up behind the new president will reassure many; ...
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SCOTT HORTON—John Brennan for CIA? Think Again
firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 11/25/2008
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firstread.msnbc.msn.com —
From NBC's Robert WindremIn a letter to President-elect
Obama, John Brennan has asked that his name be
withdrawn from consideration as CIA director. Brennan was thought to be the leading candidate for the job. He was the former chief of staff to ...
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Brennan withdraws name for top spy
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... That was the period when NATO ISAF expanded out of Kabul to cover the whole of Afghanistan, so useful background there in seeing just how much NATO as an organization can do as the effort in Afghanistan moves forward. Gen. Jones may also be...
Bad News for Hillary
The above senior national security officials are scary if you're a bad guy: al Qaeda, Taliban, or other Jihadis (Mumbai?).
But there is a bone for the president-elect's campaign true believers:
John Brennan ...
Who has the President-elect's foreign policy ear?
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... of the CIA is one of “the more treacherous patches” of Obama’s transition to governance, the Times’ Mark Mazetti and Scott Shane ...
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