President Elect Barack Obama officially nominated Admiral Dennis Blair to be Director of National Intelligence. “The intelligence serviece will support you, with fact, interpretations, assessments in a straight forward manner and we will tell you how well we know what we know and we’ll tell you what we don’t know”, said Blair. Obama slso nominated Leon Panetta, White House chief of staff to former President Bill Clinton, as CIA director. John Brennan, Obama’s original choice for CIA director was named as his homeland security adviser.

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