Posted on 12/23/2008 12:37:48 PM PST by BGHater
Two people who served as top aides in the Clinton administration are expected to join the State Department when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes secretary of state.
James Steinberg, a deputy national security adviser under President Bill Clinton, will be nominated for deputy secretary of state. Jacob J. Lew, the budget director under Clinton, will oversee management and budget issues. People familiar with President-elect Barack Obama's transition team confirmed the appointments on condition of anonymity because the decisions were not yet public.
In a unique division of authority, Steinberg is expected to focus on foreign policy issues while Lew will handle day-to-day operations. Hillary Clinton is also known to be exploring the appointment of special mediators for trouble spots such as the Middle East.
While Steinberg's appointment would fill out the traditional State deputy role codified under the Bush and Clinton administrations for taking on broad policy and administrative functions, Lew's nomination would break new ground, providing Clinton with a strong advocate for increased funding and resources inside the Obama administration.
Lew, 53, the chief operating officer of Citi Alternative Investments, a division of Citigroup, is well schooled in government budget issues from his stint running the Office of Management and Budget. He spent several years in senior positions at the OMB in the Clinton administration before being named as the office's director in 1998.
Before working at OMB, Lew worked in the Clinton White House and had a key role drafting the national service initiative and health care reform legislation. His Washington career began in 1973 as a legislative aide on Capitol Hill.
In 1979, Lew became a principal domestic policy adviser to House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. He spent nearly eight years at the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.
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What did he know about 9-11 and when did he know it?
What is his position on the destruction of notes by Sandy Berger?
What is the level of responsibility we are going to ask from these people who have already failed America?
I wonder when Hillary requests to be called Madame Co-President?
Wow! The kinds of ineptness that brought us preparation for 9-11 returns to the scene of the crime. I’m looking forward to world cluelessness that can only come from ivy league lib arts majors. This should be fun - until we get hit again.
Looks like OBL will get a “get out of sights free” card from BHO and only have his picture taken again.
Remember when we were all saying the klintoons would be elected to a third term? The machine behind the klintoons is behind Ossama Obama. All the same people are in place.
The one Clintonoid for whom they have yet to announce a position is Sandy Burglar. His security clearance should have been restored by now, per the Bush Justice Dept’s slap-on-the-wrist deal. What will he be in charge of? Mining the Nat. Archives for secrets to sell our enemies? Managing the Memory Hole, to make sure that embarrassing facts about the Obama-Clinton regime never come to light?
I thought the SD was already full of Clintonistas.
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