{"id":193634,"date":"2008-12-01T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/01\/obama-national-security-team-named\/"},"modified":"2008-12-01T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T01:23:00","slug":"obama-national-security-team-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/01\/obama-national-security-team-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama National Security Team Named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President elect Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/20390\/obama-names-national-security-team\">rolled out his new national security team<\/a>: (cut and paste from the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Washington Independent<\/span>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as secretary of state.<\/li>\n<li>Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, to remain in his current position.<\/li>\n<li>Eric Holder, a former federal prosecutor and deputy attorney general, as attorney general.<\/li>\n<li>Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, as secretary of homeland security.<\/li>\n<li>Gen. James L. Jones (Ret.), as national security adviser.<\/li>\n<li>Susan Rice, national security adviser to Obama\u2019s presidential campaign, as ambassador to the United Nations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An interesting side story on all this is that <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/1208\/Not_resigning.html?showall\">Hillary Clinton will not resign until she is confirmed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that notwithstanding the famous collegiality of the Senate, she figures that there is at least <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">one<\/span> Republican willing do pull the secret hold crap, either to screw with her or Bill, and she just sent a message to them that if they do, she will be in the room with them for a <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">long<\/span> time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President elect Obama rolled out his new national security team: (cut and paste from the Washington Independent) Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as secretary of state. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, to remain in his current position. Eric Holder, a former federal prosecutor and deputy attorney general, as attorney general. Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, as secretary &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1006,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-military","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}