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23 Nov, 5 tweets, 3 min read
If President-elect Joe Biden’s emerging national security team looks awfully familiar, that’s because it is — with most of the names announced so far those of people who held senior jobs in the Barack Obama administration politico.com/news/2020/11/2…
For secretary of State, Biden has selected Antony Blinken, a longtime aide who held senior foreign policy posts during the Barack Obama years politi.co/3o2YVHl
Another Obama-era pick close to Biden, Jake Sullivan, will be national security adviser politi.co/3o2YVHl
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a veteran diplomat who was an assistant secretary of State in the Obama years, will be nominated as ambassador to the United Nations politi.co/3o2YVHl
Other former Obama vets named on Monday: Avril Haines as director of national intelligence; Alejandro Mayorkas as Homeland Security secretary; and John Kerry as a special envoy focused on climate change politi.co/3o2YVHl

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