{"id":330921,"date":"2010-02-17T11:05:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76811"},"modified":"2010-02-17T11:05:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:05:54","slug":"all-hands-afghanstanpakistan-meeting-at-the-white-house-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/330921","title":{"rendered":"All-Hands Afghanstan\/Pakistan Meeting at the White House Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever&#8217;s happening with <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/76768\/could-baradars-arrest-damage-taliban-reconciliation-efforts\">the Baradar capture<\/a>, President Obama convenes his national security team today for what I think is the first all-hands meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan since the December West Point speech. The (very long) guest list:<span id=\"more-76811\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Vice President<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Hillary Clinton<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of Defense Robert Gates<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Susan Rice, Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (via videoconference)<\/p>\n<p>Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (via videoconference)<\/p>\n<p>Anne Patterson, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan (via videoconference)<\/p>\n<p>Under Secretary of Defense Michele Flournoy<\/p>\n<p>Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/p>\n<p>General James E. Cartwright, USMC, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/p>\n<p>General David Petraeus, U.S. Central Command<\/p>\n<p>General Stanley McChrystal, U.S. Commander in Afghanistan (via videoconference)<br \/>\nLieutenant General Dave Rodriguez (via videoconference)<\/p>\n<p>Lietenant General William Caldwell (via videoconference)<\/p>\n<p>Vice Admiral Michael LaFever (via videoconference)<\/p>\n<p>Admiral Dennis Blair, Director of National Intelligence<\/p>\n<p>CIA Director Leon Panetta<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Secretary of Treasury Neal Wolin<\/p>\n<p>General James Jones, National Security Advisor<\/p>\n<p>Tom Donilon, Deputy National Security Advisor<\/p>\n<p>John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant General Douglas Lute, Special Assistant to the President for Afghanistan and Pakistan<\/p>\n<p>Robert Nabors, OMB Deputy Director<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Adm. LaFever, if you didn&#8217;t recognize the name, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/navydata\/bios\/navybio.asp?bioID=173\">the Pentagon&#8217;s man in Pakistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever&#8217;s happening with the Baradar capture, President Obama convenes his national security team today for what I think is the first all-hands meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan since the December West Point speech. The (very long) guest list: The Vice President Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Ambassador Susan Rice, Permanent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}