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Morning Update: Panetta Tapped for CIA

by campaign2008
January 6, 2009

President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly chosen Leon Panetta (San Jose Mercury News), former chief of staff to Bill Clinton, as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Obama also tapped retired Adm. Dennis Blair to be director of national intelligence. 

SOUTHWEST ASIA: Vice President-elect Joe Biden will travel to Southwest Asia (Reuters) on a fact-finding trip later this week. The countries Biden will visit have not yet been announced for security reasons, according to his spokeswoman.

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