12-22-2012, 03:00 PM
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday announced the nomination of Sen. John Kerry as his next secretary of state, making the first move in a sweeping overhaul of his national security team heading into a second term.
If confirmed, Kerry would take the helm at the State Department from outgoing Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has long stated her intentions to leave early next year. Kerry, a longtime Massachusetts senator, is expected to be easily approved for the Cabinet post by his longtime Capitol Hill colleagues.
Kerry, 69, is the first Cabinet nomination Obama has made since winning a second term, and the first piece in an extensive shuffle of his national security team. The president is also expected soon to nominate a new defense secretary to take over for retiring Leon Panetta and a new director of the Central Intelligence Agency to replace former spy chief David Petreaus, who resigned last month after admitting to an affair with his biographer.
full story here:
http://news.msn.com/politics/obama-nomin...=ansnews11
Kerry's a qualified choice, imo. Some really significant changes in national security leadership are pending for term 2; interested to learn who's next in line for Panetta and Petreaus's posts.
If confirmed, Kerry would take the helm at the State Department from outgoing Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has long stated her intentions to leave early next year. Kerry, a longtime Massachusetts senator, is expected to be easily approved for the Cabinet post by his longtime Capitol Hill colleagues.
Kerry, 69, is the first Cabinet nomination Obama has made since winning a second term, and the first piece in an extensive shuffle of his national security team. The president is also expected soon to nominate a new defense secretary to take over for retiring Leon Panetta and a new director of the Central Intelligence Agency to replace former spy chief David Petreaus, who resigned last month after admitting to an affair with his biographer.
full story here:
http://news.msn.com/politics/obama-nomin...=ansnews11
Kerry's a qualified choice, imo. Some really significant changes in national security leadership are pending for term 2; interested to learn who's next in line for Panetta and Petreaus's posts.