New Delhi: US President-elect Barack Obama's intelligence team has been chosen and ready and this is what it will look like. He has chosen Leon Panetta, a former White House Chief of Staff, to run the CIA, and retired admiral Dennis Blair as Director of National Intelligence.
Obama has also named former CIA official John Brennan as White House homeland security adviser and deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism.
Outgoing DNI chief Mike McConnell has been nominated to the foreign intelligence advisory board.
While naming his intelligence heads on Friday, Obama said good intelligence is not a luxury but a necessity in these dangerous times.
Obama has now made all major appointments to his incoming team before he takes office on 20 January.
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