CNAS Co-Chair Is Helping Run Obama’s Pentagon Headhunting Team

Just as my piece on Saturday predicted, look who the Obama people just announced would help lead their Pentagon headhunting team. From an Obama press release:

Michèle A. Flournoy is president and co-founder of the Center for a New American Security.  Previously, she was a senior adviser at CSIS and a distinguished research professor at NDU.  In the Clinton administration, she was dual-hatted as principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and threat reduction and deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy.  She is on the board of the Institute for Defense Analyses, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Aspen Strategy Group, the executive board of Women in International Security, and a former member of the Defense Policy Board.

Counterinsurgents everywhere, rejoice. Flournoy is going to be reviewing your resumes. Also on the list for helping with the agency-review process: Sarah Sewall, noted counterinsurgent and human-rights advocate.