The Cable
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Latin America: Sources tell The Cable that former Clinton-era NSC official Arturo Valenzuela is likely to be tapped as assistant secretary for Western hemispheric affairs, but that he is not expected to take up the post until after the spring semester ends. Valenzuela, professor and director of Georgetown University’s Center for Latin American Studies, did ...
Latin America: Sources tell The Cable that former Clinton-era NSC official Arturo Valenzuela is likely to be tapped as assistant secretary for Western hemispheric affairs, but that he is not expected to take up the post until after the spring semester ends. Valenzuela, professor and director of
Still undecided is who will get the job of NSC senior director on
Vikram Singh, also a fellow at CNAS and a former aide in the office of the assistant secretary of defense for global security affairs, is slated to take a job at DoD advising on Afghanistan and Pakistan issues. CNAS co-founder Michèle Flournoy was confirmed earlier this week by the Senate as undersecretary of defense for policy.
On Tuesday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs announced that Flournoy would cochair with U.S. special representative Richard Holbrooke a review panel on U.S. policy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, in coordination with veteran NSC and CIA official Bruce Riedel. Riedel, currently a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who served as the senior lead to the Obama campaign’s South Asia foreign policy team, would take a 60-day leave to conduct the review, and will report directly to President Obama and national security advisor James L. Jones, Gibbs said.