Bob Gates is keeping his Pentagon perch (which has been quite clear for some time). I had moved close to the view that Gates should go. My thinking at the time was that Gates played a vital role “Out-Cheneying Cheney” in the last couple of years of G.W.
Recently, Politico issued a roster of top policy and political hands who would be in line for key positions in an Obama government. At the time, I thought it very odd that Clinton Middle East coordinator Dennis Ross was not on the list.
Here is a very quick clip of my views on the Citibank bail-out and the importance of realigning the interests of US-based multinational firms that take taxpayer money with the interests of America’s workers. This segment played on PRI’s The World which airs on National Public Radio affiliates around the country.
A bit more than a decade ago, I received a briefing at Sandia National Weapons Laboratories on a few of their private-public partnerships, or CRADAs (Cooperative Research and Development Agreements). Intel had a CRADA with Sandia and Los Alamos Labs on developing extreme ultra-violet lithography. Many other top tier firms did too.
A senior Obama campaign official shared with The Washington Note that in July 2008, the McCain and Obama camps began to work secretly behind the scenes to assemble large rosters of potential personnel for the administration that only one of the candidates would lead.
This is the segment I did last night on Countdown with David Shuster standing in for Keith Olbermann. I’m back in the U.S. and can report that enthusiasm for Barack Obama throughout Europe is off the charts.
Just arrived in Washington from Barcelona. And now I’m off to chat with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC’s Countdown tonight. We will be discussing themes from this article on President-elect Obama’s plans for Hillary Clinton.
I’m flying back from Spain. We’ll have much to discuss after I arrive back home.
I will be back to Washington on Friday after an excellent program in Madrid with the Spain- based alums of the London School of Economics. I am now in Barcelona.
Today, Google CEO Eric Schmidt who is also Chairman of the Board of Directors at the New America Foundation (where I work) will give a speech and answer questions at an event organized by my organization and which I will stream live here at The Washington Note from 1:00 pm til 2:30 pm EST.
