Per Obama’s transition website, www.change.gov, the following individuals have been nominated for the various positions for his National Security squad:

President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden today announced the following nominees to their administration: Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Eric Holder as Attorney General, Governor Janet Napolitano as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Susan Rice as Ambassador to the United Nations, and General Jim Jones, USMC (Ret) as National Security Adviser. President-elect Obama also announced that he has asked Robert Gates to stay on as Secretary of Defense.

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