Ed. What a power team! Obama seems to be hitting his stride!
AP sources: Panetta to Pentagon, Petraeus to CIA
Wednesday – 4/27/2011, 11:09am ET
By ANNE GEARAN and KIMBERLY DOZIER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama plans to name CIA Director Leon Panetta as the next secretary of defense and move Gen. David Petraeus, now running the war in Afghanistan, into the CIA chief’s job in a major shuffle of the nation’s national security leadership, administration and other sources said Wednesday.
The changes would probably take effect this summer. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has already said he will leave this year, and the White House wants to schedule Senate confirmation hearings in the coming months.
All sources spoke on condition of anonymity because the changes haven’t been announced by the president.