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AND SO it begins. The Obama cabinet shuffle.
President Obama is considering asking Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to serve as his next defense secretary, part of an extensive rearrangement of his national security team that will include a permanent replacement for former CIA director David H. Petraeus.
Although Kerry is thought to covet the job of secretary of state, senior administration officials familiar with the transition planning said that nomination will almost certainly go to Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
John O. Brennan, Obama’s chief counterterrorism adviser, is a leading contender for the CIA job if he wants it, officials said. If Brennan goes ahead with his plan to leave government, Michael J. Morell, the agency’s acting director, is the prohibitive favorite to take over permanently.
Such imagination, such creativity, such breadth. ” Bring out your dead, bring out your dead.”
Swell. With John Brennan on the list we know that the next four years will become Bush IV. Read on:http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/14/honoring-a-terror-war-architect/
Yep. One of the pieces I wrote back in 2009 on Brennan here.
Rendition, baby.
What could possibly go wrong…
What’s really astonishing is how many people were onto this even back then. Heck, I wrote this a week and a half after the 2008 election, because so many people understood who John Brennan was that I knew who John Brennan was.
Yet many progressives seem shocked to learn that there’s rendition going on in this establishment.
Good job.
Please! Do NOT make John Kerry Secretary of Anything! If his senate seat opens up, it is certain that we from Massachusetts will have to endure another Scott Brown campaign. Just shoot me!
Better get accustomed to losing your senator, yankeegal.
Kerry wants State, but I don’t think he’d turn down Defense.