From Foreign Policy:
Yes, it's anxiety time for the hundreds of would-be Obama foreign policy advisors. Soon enough there will be some pretty big names left without a chair to sit on. Meantime, here's our agency-by-agency guide to the Great Job Scramble of 2009, national security edition.
The National Security Council:
Although President-elect Obama pretty quickly tapped retired Marine Gen. James L. Jones as national security advisor and Tom Donilon, former Clinton assistant secretary of state for public affairs, as his deputy, there's been precious little word since on who will join them (though Obama campaign foreign policy aide Mark Lippert is said to be a lock on NSC chief of staff).
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My Comment: The Leon Panetta appointment puts everything up in the air. President Obama is moving in the direction that is independent from the intelligence and national security establishment .... one can imagine on who the under-secretaries and minor appointments will now be.