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FOX News:

Gen. James Jones is calling it quits as President Obama's national security adviser, Fox News has confirmed. His resignation will be effective in two weeks.

Tom Donilon, the deputy national security adviser, will succeed Jones, Fox News has learned.

President Obama will announce the change on Friday afternoon in Rose Garden ceremony with Jones and Donilon.

While Jones' resignation is not unexpected, he is the latest high-profile official to leave Obama's administration following Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's departure last week.

Last month, Christina Romer stepped down as Obama's top economic adviser and Larry Summers announced he would leave as director of the president's National Economic Council at the end of the year. Budget Director Peter Orszag left the administration in July. Dennis Blair resigned as the nation's intelligence director in May.

More leadership changes are expected as Obama nears the two-year mark of his term and the grueling pace of the White House takes a toll. :snip:

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Another one bites the dust... Grueling pace... sounds like more vacations are in order!
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ABC-Jake Tapper

Gates in 2010: Donilon Would Be a "disaster" as National Security Adviser; Jones: Donilon Has "No Credibility With the Military"

 

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Throughout the Af/Pak review in 2009, Donilon, a former vice president for embattled mortgage giant Fannie Mae, had heated disagreements with Gates. In Jan. 2010, Gates praised Jones to The Washington Post’s David Ignatius, calling him “the glue that holds the team together.”

 

Reports Woodward: “Gates did this in part, he told an aide, because he did not think Donilon would work out as Jones’s successor. Gates felt that Donilon did not understand the military or treat its senior leadership with sufficient respect. The secretary later told Jones that Donilon would be a ‘disaster’ as Obama’s national security adviser.”

 

The book also describes a scene where Jones called Donilon into his office.

 

Jones, clearly thinking of his retirement, is described as thinking Donilon was “indispensible,” with "substantive and organizational skills.”

 

But he also resented the close relationship his deputy had with chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, senior adviser David Axelrod and others. The main “pipeline continued to be Emanuel-Donilon, who were like two tuning forls – when one vibrated, so did the other.”

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Jake Tapper:

Admin official tells ABC News that new DEPUTY Natl Security Adviser will likely be Denis McDonough, current NSS chief of staff

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"The secretary later told Jones that Donilon would be a ‘disaster’ as Obama’s national security adviser.”

 

So guess who got the job?

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"The secretary later told Jones that Donilon would be a ‘disaster’ as Obama’s national security adviser.”

 

So guess who got the job?

 

Um, the last person anybody with a shred of common sense(naturally, that means liberals will love him) would want in the job. No wonder Obambi immediately tapped him to replace a real general with a failed Fannie Mae exec. :blink:

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