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Exclusive: Obama Taps New Homeland Security Secretary

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October 17, 2013


Jeh Johnson, the top Pentagon lawyer during Obama's first term, will be nominated to succeed Janet Napolitano at the Department of Homeland Security. Daniel Klaidman reports.


The White House has settled on a former high-ranking Pentagon official to replace Janet Napolitano as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, two senior Obama administration officials confirm to The Daily Beast.


President Obama plans to announce his intention to nominate Jeh Johnson, who served as the Defense Department's general counsel during the administration's first term, at a White House ceremony tomorrow, one of the sources said.


Johnson, a well-known and trusted figure in the Obama White House, was a central player in many of the administration's most sensitive national security and counterterrorism policies, including the ramping up of the drone program, the revival of military commissions to try suspected terrorists, and the repeal of the Defense Department's ban on gays serving openly in the armed forces.


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