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Biden taps Kahl as national security aide

Vice President Joe Biden has picked Colin Kahl, former Pentagon Middle East adviser, to serve as top national security aide.

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey (L) and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Colin Kahl (R) speak at the fifth anniversary celebration of the Center for New American Security (CNAS) think tank, Jan. 31, 2012. — CNAS

Vice President Joe Biden has picked Colin Kahl to serve as his top national security adviser, the White House has announced.

Kahl, the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East in Barack Obama’s first term, currently serves as a professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Center for New American Security (CNAS). He declined to comment.

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