Hillary Picks Cheney Aide Nuland to Replace PJ Crowley at State Department

[KoKo]

Hillary Picks Cheney Aide Nuland to Replace PJ Crowley
State Department to name new spokesperson
by Laura Rozen

Victoria "Toria" Nuland, the current U.S. special envoy for conventional forces in Europe and a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, will be named the new spokesperson for the State Department this week, officials and foreign policy hands told the Envoy.

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The appointment is expected to be announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as early as Monday, sources told the Envoy.

Nuland, a career foreign service officer, has previously served as U.S. Ambassador and deputy ambassador to NATO, former principal deputy national security adviser to then Vice President Dick Cheney, and as chief of staff to Clinton-era Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, now President of the Brookings Institution.

"Toria is very skilled and talented and will do very well here," one denizen of the State Department's "executive level" seventh floor said, noting that given Nuland's ties to GOP circles - her husband is Brookings foreign policy scholar and Washington Post columnist Robert Kagan, and she previously served as an adviser to Cheney -- "who better...to aggressively defend the Administration's foreign policy?"

More at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theenvoy/20110515/ts_yblog_theenvoy/state-department-to-name-new-spokesperson

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. The Creeping Terror

[KoKo]

10. truly...a definite "creeping terror."

:eyes:

[BlueStater]

2. I read that as "Cheney Nude" for a second.

:scared: :puke:

[Owlet]

3. It doesn't seem to matter who we vote for...

...it's always the same old crowd calling the shots.

"Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and a prominent neoconservative writer. He cofounded, with Wiliam Kristoland other likeminded figures, the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), a successor to their now defunct advocacy group, the Project for the New American Century. Kagan’s father, Donald, and brother, Frederick, are also well known neoconservative figures who advocate for a stronger, more interventionist U.S. military." More here..

[bigwillq]

7. Yup.

At the end of the day, they're all just one big happy family while the rest of us suffer.

[Citizen Worker]

4. When will we realize that there's very little that differentiates the two party duopoly?

[KoKo]

11. It will take more years..

more pain...more suffering and killing.

[Wilms]

5. Her hubby is a Skull and Bones member, according to Wiki.

Not that it should mean anything at all.

[AtomicKitten]

6. eeew! Touched by a Cheney (or Cheney-adjacent).

[Enrique]

8. the connection to Kagan is much worse, imo

Brookings scholar and Wash Post columnist sound so benign, don't they. Well, Kagan is about as hard core a neocon as you're going to find.

[Dr Fate]

9. Don't worry folks, just some harmless, clear eyed centrism.

N/t

[OwnedByFerrets]

12. More change we can believe in? Makes me want to vomit.