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Maybe Give This Guy a Job? UPDATED BECAUSE HE HAS ONE

Politico’s Ben Smith adds to Laura Rozen’s report on President-elect Barack Obama’s South Asia-themed dinner last week. Ben learns that Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi was there, along with an important defense adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign, Air Force Maj. Gen. Scott Gration (Ret).
That raises a question: why doesn’t — as best I can tell — [...]

Obama’s Dinner With His Old Friends And His Potential South Asia Policy

On her excellent new Foreign Policy blog, Laura Rozen has a great scoop about a secret dinner last week between President-elect Obama at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars downtown. In attendance were Democratic foreign-policy wise man Lee Hamilton — whom, as Laura notes, has mentored many of Obama’s foreign policy advisers — and [...]

Want To Embarrass An Obama Aide? Link Him To Me

So did you see that bonkers New York Times piece about how you have to disclose all your embarrassing IMs and Facebook messages and Twitters if you want a job in an Obama administration? Well, perhaps it’s too late for some. The New York Observer’s Gillian Reagan did a piece about the Facebook lives of [...]