Sunday, March 1, 2009

CIA vet aids Obama on anti-terrorism

From The Washington Times:

If terrorists threaten Americans or plot to crash the nation's cyber infrastructure, President Obama's first phone call will almost certainly be to John O. Brennan.

A multilingual CIA veteran from New Jersey who shares the president's love for basketball, Mr. Brennan is Mr. Obama's envoy to what former Vice President Dick Cheney called the "dark side": the community of analysts, operators and intelligence managers who work with allied security services to disrupt terror networks.

The job — officially known as homeland security adviser and deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism — is in part a consolation prize for being passed over as director of the CIA.

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My Comment: This is a job that I am not envious about .... because if you screw up .... you really screw up.

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