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Petraeus Goes to the CIA, Panetta to the Pentagon
There's been a major shift of familiar figures in the Obama security team. When Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a holdover from the Bush Administration, decided to call it quits, President Obama had a problem. He's decided to solve it by moving CIA Director Leon Panetta to the Pentagon and General David Petraeus to the CIA.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readThere's been a major shift of familiar figures in the Obama security team. When Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a holdover from the Bush Administration, decided to call it quits, President Obama had a problem. He's decided to solve it by moving CIA Director Leon Panetta to the Pentagon and General David Petraeus to the CIA. Petraeus became America's favorite military leader after the successful troop "surge" in Iraq. President Obama gave him command of the war in Afghanistan. But the shakeup goes beyond those jobs.
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2 of 4Musical Chairs in DC as the Space Shuttle Program Winds Down- 0:00Deadly Tornadoes Rip through Alabama and the Deep South
- 7:38Petraeus Goes to the CIA, Panetta to the PentagonYou’re reading this
- 23:22Endeavour's Last Ride: Countdown to the End of the Shuttle Era
- 44:12Gabby Giffords' Struggling Recovery