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White House lawyer replacing retiring CIA deputy
CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell is stepping down and being replaced by White House lawyer Avril Haines, who will be the first woman to hold the post. When President Barack Obama named a successor to former CIA Director David Petraeus in January, Morell was passed over in favor of the ...
CIA deputy director Michael Morell retires
CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell, who defended harsh interrogation techniques and was involved with the fallout after the attack on the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, announced his retirement Wednesday. When President Barack Obama named a successor to former CIA Director David Petraeus last January, Morell was passed over in ...
RICE TO REPLACE DONILON IN THE TOP NATIONAL SECURITY POST
c.2013 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON —President Barack Obama announced Wednesday afternoon that Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, would replace Tom Donilon, who is resigning, as national security adviser in a major shakeup of his foreign-policy inner circle. The appointment, which Obama made in ...
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c.2013 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON —President Barack Obama announced Wednesday afternoon that Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, would replace Tom Donilon, who is resigning, as national security adviser in a major shakeup of his foreign-policy inner circle. The appointment, which Obama made in ...
DONILON TO RESIGN AS NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER
c.2013 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON — In a major shake-up of President Barack Obama’s foreign-policy inner circle, Tom Donilon, the national security adviser, is resigning and will be replaced by Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, White House officials said Tuesday. The appointment, which ...
US intelligence embraces debate in security issues
In the months leading up to the killing of Osama bin Laden, veteran intelligence analyst Robert Cardillo was given the nickname "Debbie Downer." With each new tidbit of information that tracked bin Laden to a high-walled compound in northern Pakistan — phone records, satellite imaging, clues from other suspects — ...
IN TERROR SHIFT, OBAMA TOOK A LONG PATH
c.2013 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON — The pivot in counterterrorism policy that President Barack Obama announced last week was nearly two years in the making, but perhaps the most critical moment came last spring during a White House meeting as he talked about the future of the nation’s ...
4 Americans killed since 2009 in US drone strikes
The Obama administration acknowledged publicly for the first time that four U.S. citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 in Pakistan and Yemen. The disclosure comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama in which he plans to pledge more transparency to ...
CIA nominee defends Obama drone attacks
Ignoring demonstrators in the hearing room and frustrated Senators on the committee dais, CIA nominee John Brennan used a hearing to strongly defend Obama Administration plans to use drones to target Americans overseas who are linked to Al Qaeda. "I think the American people would be quite pleased to know ...
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