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Article: Experts' Report Urges Changes in National Security System
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 4, 2008
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A bipartisan panel of foreign policy experts, including some
associated with the incoming Obama administration, has recommended
changes in the White House national security apparatus that would
provide the president and his staff with new tools to ensure
interagency cooperation.
Chief among its recommendations is merging the National Security
and Homeland Security councils and creating a director for national
security who would manage implementation of the president's policies
rather than just coordinate the views of Cabinet members and present
them to the president, as the national security adviser currently
does.
"The basic deficiency of the current national security system is
that ...