http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20628439/site/newsweek/page/0/Battle for the Best and Brightest
Behind the scenes, the Clinton and Obama camps are competing fiercely for foreign policy aides to the 42nd president.
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The more experienced Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, has relied largely on her husband and a triumvirate of senior officials from his presidency—former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, former U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke and former national-security adviser Sandy Berger (who tries to keep a low profile after pleading guilty in 2005 to misdemeanor charges of taking classified material without authorization). Hillary also consults with an informal group of 30 less prominent advisers. But she has shown increasing anxiety over Obama's active recruiting effort—so much so that she recently hired Lee Feinstein, a prominent and well-connected scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations, to launch an "outreach" program similar to Obama's. Perhaps the hardest loss for the Clintonites is Greg Craig, the former lawyer for President Clinton who, along with former Albright protégée Susan Rice, a Clinton-era assistant secretary of state for Africa, and former national-security adviser Tony Lake, is considered one of Obama's closest confidants.
(more... )The WashPost also listed him as her #2 security advisor on Oct. 2nd:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/documents/the-war-over-the-wonks.html{i]A list of the national security and foreign policy advisers to the leading presidential candidates from both parties.
DEMOCRATS
Hillary Clinton
Madeleine K. Albright, President Clinton’s secretary of state and now chairperson of the National Democratic Institute, foreign policy adviser
Samuel R. Berger, President Clinton’s national security adviser and now a principal at business consultancy Stonebridge, foreign policy adviser
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