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More White House appointments

The White House announced several anticipated appointments in the past day on the foreign policy front. Among then, Obama has at long last officially announced his intent to nominate Kurt Campbell as assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, replacing Chris Hill, who has arrived in Baghdad three days after being confirmed ...

The White House announced several anticipated appointments in the past day on the foreign policy front. Among then, Obama has at long last officially announced his intent to nominate Kurt Campbell as assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, replacing Chris Hill, who has arrived in Baghdad three days after being confirmed as the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq.

The White House announced several anticipated appointments in the past day on the foreign policy front. Among then, Obama has at long last officially announced his intent to nominate Kurt Campbell as assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, replacing Chris Hill, who has arrived in Baghdad three days after being confirmed as the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq.

Other intents-to-nominates Obama has announced: the Brookings Institution’s Daniel Benjamin, a former Clinton-era NSC director for transnational threats, to be his nominee for the State Department’s coordinator for counterterrorism, with the rank and status of ambassador at large; career Foreign Service officer and current U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka Robert O. Blake, to be assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs; the Connect U.S. Fund’s Eric Schwartz, a former Clinton-era NSC official, to be assistant secretary of state for populations, refugee and migration; and Philip Mudd, a former CIA analyst, CTC and FBI official, to be under secretary for intelligence and analysis at the Department of Homeland Security.

Laura Rozen writes The Cable daily at ForeignPolicy.com.

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