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latimes.com - 11/8/2008

Obama's foreign policy goals will face a reality check - Los Angeles Times

— latimes.com — During a campaign that drew extraordinary attention around the world, Barack Obama offered a sharp break from the Bush administration's interventionist and often unilateral approach to foreign affairs. He promised to rebuild strained alliances and ... (more) Obama's foreign policy goals will face a reality check - ...

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washingtonindependent.com - 11/14/2008

A Window Into Obama’s Foreign Policy

— washingtonindependent.com — In April 2007, as the United States was enmeshed in two wars, a Brookings Institution scholar and Clinton-era State Dept. official testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in favor of taking military action as a last resort to stop the ... (more) A Window Into Obama’s Foreign Policy

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newsweek.com - 11/10/2008

Newsweek: Obama can take time on foreign policy

— newsweek.com — The foreign-policy and national-security inbox shows that, even on pressing issues, the president-elect has the luxury of time. (more) Newsweek: Obama can take time on foreign policy

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Obama Transition Tries to Control International Message
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... Email to wide circle of advisers lays down the law: "Do not under any circumstances speak to the press, any foreign officials, or embassies on behalf of the transition or President-elect Obama. . . .  It would be highly damaging for foreign governments or media to receive information that they believe falsely to represent the views of the President-Elect."       ...

Tight Lips
The Stump — ... variety of leaks coming from Obamaland these days, the Democratic foreign policy community seems particularly disciplined about secrecy. A few folks in Obama's orbit have summarily refused to talk, even on background, and one such personwouldn't even suggest other people to contact in his stead. One veteran foreign affairs hand not affiliated with Obama told me today that the secrecy around that side of the transition is "unprecedented" in his experience. Guess everyone got the memo. ...

If It Didn't Come from Obama's Camp, It's Not a Leak
Hoffmania! — ... (Obama has more than 700 titled advisors on foreign policy alone. There's good reason why they received a memo that instructed "do not under any circumstances speak to the press." You can't shoot a cannon ball up Pennsylvania Avenue these days without hitting two or three of them, but that doesn't put them in the loop, and the ones that are in the loop aren't talking to Andrea Mitchell or anybody in the press about inside information.) ...