Pittsburgh InfraGard Security News

President-elect Barack Obama yesterday introduced a war cabinet that is more diverse than that of any other president in recent history, appointing three women and two African Americans to his top national security and foreign policy posts. But the six folks nominated mirror the national security slates of the last three presidents in one key demographic: age.

Obama appointed a record number of women to his top national security posts, naming three — Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state, Janet Napolitano as secretary of homeland security and Susan E. Rice as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations — to key jobs.

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By Eric Lipton

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 — House Democrats intend to fulfill a campaign promise this week by passing broad new antiterrorism legislation, but some Senate Democrats and the Bush administration object to security mandates in the plan, citing concerns about their cost and practicality.

The House measure, the Sept. 11 Commission Bill, is intended to write into law recommendations by the group that investigated the 2001 terror attacks. They include initiatives intended to disrupt global black markets for nuclear weapons technology and to enhance cargo inspection.

“Today marks a giant leap forward toward a safer and more secure America,” said Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi, the new chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, as he unveiled the bill Friday.

Read More:  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/washington/09terror.html