yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/26/2008
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Okay, the new national security team is now officially unofficially leaked . We’ll have General James Jones as National Security Adviser with Tom Donilon as his Deputy. And Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, with James Steinberg as her deputy. And Robert Gates will stay on at the ...
commentarymagazine.com - 11/26/2008
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commentarymagazine.com —
According to the latest news reports, President-elect Obama
will nominate a national security team next week that
is stunning in its moderation. The headliners–Bob Gates staying at Defense, Hillary Clinton becoming Secretary of State, retired ...
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Obama’s Picks
thewashingtonnote.com - 11/26/2008
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thewashingtonnote.com —
Bob Gates is keeping his Pentagon perch (which
has been quite clear for some time). I had
moved close to the view that Gates should go. My thinking at the time was that Gates played a vital role "Out-Cheneying Cheney" in the last couple of ...
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Robert Gates: Should He Have Stayed?
mudvillegazette.com - 11/26/2008
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mudvillegazette.com —
First, your U.S. history trivia for the day:
Henry Lewis Stimson, Secretary of War throughout World War
Two under Democrat Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, was a Republican. ***** And now back to the news. If the rumors are true, then Politico ...
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Gates Stays on at Pentagon?
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Gates As Obama Defense Chief: Another Centrist Obama Administration Sign
The Moderate Voice —
... from the recent past that we might as well have canceled the election, saved a couple billion in campaign costs, and let Bush keep running things.
Meet the new bosses, same as the old bosses…
--The Danger Room:
As predicted, Robert Gates will be staying on as Defense Secretary in the new Obama administration.
Count me as psyched. I’ve been of fan of Gates’, for quite some time.
–Mathew Yglesias:
I would only reiterate that I think it’s very possible to ...
Obama's National Security And Foreign Policy Team
Newshoggers.com —
... And, despite the frantic attempts of the Cretindens of the Right to spin it otherwise, few left-of-centrists are going to be too upset about keeping Gates for a year or so when everyone saw (and the Right are hoping we've forgotten) that Gates was an adult imposed by Poppy Bush's realists to supervise the incompetent neocon kiddies of the Bush Junior administration in the first place. Progressives might not be ecstatic about keeping Gates, but ...
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Obama's National Security And Foreign Policy Team
crooksandliars.com 11/27/2008 — Thanks to Faiz at Think Progress for the vid. Following the S.O.P. of making the leak the story, the Obama transition team has now unofficially officially announced the headliners for national security and foreign policy roles. Secretary of Defense ...
What Would Obama Do?
openleft.com 12/9/2008 — Michael Tomasky writing in the Guardian about how anyone who thought Gates was a bad pick are complete idiots:
And people who can't see that Obama needs to reassure the political establishment by doing things like re-appointing Robert Gates at the ...
The Debate Over Gates
openleft.com 11/25/2008 — The most important appointment decision Obama will make during the transition, bar none, is who becomes, or remains, Secretary of Defense. As I have noted in the past , the Department of Defense oversees the expenditure of 52% of all discretionary ...
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washingtonmonthly.com 11/26/2008 — GATES.... As has been widely reported, Barack Obama will keep Defense Secretary Robert Gates at his post next year. This is not a surprise -- speculation about Gates staying on was common even before the election -- but it is...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 11/26/2008 —
I think there’s a lot of logic to keeping Bob Gates on as Secretary of Defense. But I also thought Chris Bowers’ concerns about this are reasonable:
The most important appointment decision Obama will make during the transition, bar ...
BREAKING NEWS: Gates to remain at Pentagon
the-reaction.blogspot.com 11/26/2008 — By Michael J.W. Stickings CNN : Several officials close to President-elect Barack Obama's transition tell CNN that Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to stay on the job for at least the first year of the new administration. One source ...
Times: Gates to Stay at Defense
dailykos.com 11/26/2008 — Peter Baker and Thom Shanker at The New York Times write: Obama Plans to Retain Gates at Defense Department : President-elect Barack Obama has decided to keep Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in his post, a show of bipartisan continuity in a ...
Hullabaloo
digbysblog.blogspot.com 11/12/2008 — Monday, November 10, 2008 Change by digby Podesta also said Obama is working to build a diverse Cabinet. That includes reaching out to Republicans and independents — part of the broad coalition that supported Obama during the race against Republican ...
Officials: Obama to ask Pentagon chief to stay —
msnbc.com: Politics 11/26/2008
Seeking experience in wartime, President-elect Barack Obama intends to re-enlist Defense Secretary Robert Gates as head of the Pentagon — if only temporarily — and has chosen a retired Marine general to be White House national security adviser, ...
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