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firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 11/4/2008
Pentagon briefings to start 'almost immediately'
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From NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski Since the upcoming political transition will be the first in wartime since Vietnam, Pentagon officials say they are prepared to begin briefing the President-elect's transition team, "almost immediately" after today's elections on a wide range of military operations and Pentagon programs.  "We are undertaking Herculean efforts to ensure the transition goes as smoothly and seamlessly as possible," according to one official. The officials tell NBC News they ...

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Report: Pentagon to begin briefing president-elect’s transition team ‘almost immediately.’
Think Progress — ... NBC News reports that because “the upcoming political transition will be the first in wartime since Vietnam,” Pentagon officials are prepared to begin briefing the new president-elect’s transition team “almost immediately” after today’s elections. Officials tell NBC that “they intend to expedite the security-clearance process so that transition members would actually be able to sit alongside top Pentagon and military leaders during secure satellite briefings with combatant military commanders from Iraq and Afghanistan.” “We ...

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