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Article: Obama planning overhaul of National Security Council.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
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- February 8, 2009
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Obama planning overhaul of National Security Council
Washington, Feb 8 (PTI) -- US President Barack Obama is planning a sweeping overhaul of the National Security Council, expanding it and increasing its authority to set strategy across a wide range of international and domestic issues.
The result will be a "dramatically different" NSC from that of the Bush Administration or any of its predecessors, National Security Adviser James L Jones told New York Times.
"The world that we live in has changed so dramatically in this decade that organisations that were created to meet a certain set of criteria no longer are terribly useful," the top security ...