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Obama Set To Announce Security Team

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Mon Dec 01, 2008 at 06:30:03 AM PST

According to several reports, Senator Clinton will be in Chicago today to be formally named as the nominee for Secretary of State. According to Beth Fouhy with the AP, the Obama team negotiated with Bill Clinton to set the following terms:

To make it possible for his wife to become the top U.S. diplomat, the officials said, former President Clinton agreed:
_to disclose the names of every contributor to his foundation since its inception in 1997 and all contributors going forward.
_to refuse donations from foreign governments to the Clinton Global Initiative, his annual charitable conference.
_to cease holding CGI meetings overseas.
_to volunteer to step away from day-to-day management of the foundation while his wife is secretary of state.
_to submit his speaking schedule to review by the State Department and White House counsel.
_to submit any new sources of income to a similar ethical review.

In addition to Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, it is expected Obama will name retired Marine General James M. Jones to serve as national security adviser and formally announce Robert Gates will stay on as Sec of Defense for at least a year.

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