Emerging players in Obama’s national security team

Barbara Starr
CNN
Monday, November 24 2008

When the phone rings at 3 a.m. in the White House during a crisis, President Barack Obama won’t lack for advice. But the question may be whose advice will be the loudest?

Obama’s potential national security team looks like an all-star lineup: Sen. Hillary Clinton is on track, sources say, to be secretary of state; Defense Secretary Robert Gates may stay on; and retired Gen. Jim Jones is a leading candidate for national security adviser.

And according to The New York Times, retired Adm. Dennis Blair may be named as director of national intelligence. He did a tour of duty at the CIA, and his expertise is clandestine military operations.

Observers may wonder if so much high-power talent can get along.

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“Are there downsides? Sure. When you have people with this much stature, there can be ego clashes,” said CNN contributor David Gergen. “Everybody’s ego has got to get into the same room … and in at least one or two of those cases, I’m sure people think that their egos are big enough to fill the room all by themselves.”

Clinton has applauded Gates’ candor but early on put him on notice.

“We need a strong secretary of defense — but that doesn’t mean strong-headed,” Clinton said during Gates’ confirmation hearings in 2006.

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3 Responses to “Emerging players in Obama’s national security team”

1. Kshatriya Says:
   November 25th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

   Pray for Alex. He is a warrior, fighting for Truth, fighting for your children, my children, and the future of all that is good, all that is pure, and wholesome. Please be praying as much as you can, this is a spiritual battle bros. and sisters. The great battle of Good vs. evil. There are forces already in motion that would chill the very blood in your veins. Pray for courage, pray for the Holy Spirit to touch the hearts of the illuminati figures, pray Holy Spirit to convict the heart and conscience of a high ranking secret-society leader. Pray they will realize that they are killing their own children too, realize they have been decieved by the evil One, let the Spirit shake them to their core, compelling them to confess on mainstream media that there are diabolic plans in effect to kill a major portion of the planets people. Shaking and trembling and crying with remorse, they beg forgiveness and admit to the world that these plans are real and reveal some of the secrets of 911 and other coverups, so that our sleeping brothers and sisters will rise up and awaken. We only need one illuminati leader to be convicted by the Holy Spirit, help me to press and petition Holy Spirit to do this. We have to ask, we must press, and ask, over and over, AND IT WILL HAPPEN. Lets do this. You will be amazed when it happens. So we are all praying at the same time, let us pray for Holy Spirit to convict one high ranking illuminati to be totally convicted in his heart to the point of full confession on prime-time mainstream media. We will pray at the top of each hour. It only takes 30 seconds at the top of each hour. Spread this all over the movement. We will change the world with our God-given Divinity.

   

   Patricia Reply:
   January 22nd, 2009 at 8:54 pm

   I WILL PRAY!

2. hubert Says:
   November 25th, 2008 at 11:49 pm

   Hi, a friend just noticed something while driving home! An obama biden bumpersticker she thought she had read OsAMA BInlaDEN…. what a nasty coincidence!