I ask, Mike Allen answers. So long, Eric Edelman:
EXCLUSIVE: Secretary Gates’ deputy at the Pentagon is slated to be Richard Danzig, who was Navy secretary under President Clinton. The #3 (policy) will PROBABLY be Michelle Flournoy, a Clinton administration veteran who was dual-hatted as principal deputy assistant
Retiring Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel was once called “(R-France)” on the cover of National Review for his various conservative unorthodoxies. According to Sam Smith at Huffington Post, Hagel vented some long-suppressed agita today against his own Republican Party at a Johns Hopkins forum:
To build on DeLong’s great Sam Nunn post… actually, it’s hard, because he said a lot of what I wanted to say.
So one thing. In comments to a post I wrote on Bob Gates yesterday, commenter Fit4Service pointed out, “It is hard to visualize Gates staying on More…
More Gates-love. This is a post written by Dave Dilegge, editor of the invaluable counterinsurgency blog Small Wars Journal, the day after Obama’s election:
The House Financial Services Committee, on Sept. 24, grilled Treasury Sec. Henry Paulson Jr. about the $700-billion financial bailout plan. The high-profile hearing signaled that lawmakers were not going to pass just any rescue bill before recessing to campaign.
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Blink and you’ll miss Secretary of Defense Bob Gates giving the back of his hand to Vice President Dick Cheney during a Q&A session yesterday at the National Defense University:
Q: Captain Stevewright (ph), United States Navy. Do you think that the mid- and long-term economic challenges, domestic economic
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