President-elect Barack Obama made it official this morning. Retired Admiral Dennis Blair will be Director of National Intelligence, and Leon Panetta, once President Clinton’s Chief of Staff, will head the CIA. Spencer has much more on this above.

You can see remarks from Blair and Panetta here, and the Q&A with the press corps here.


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