NSC Advisor Jones to Retire

Written by FrumForum News on Friday October 8, 2010

The Los Angeles Times reports:

President Obama will announce Friday that retired Gen. James L. Jones  is resigning as national security advisor, to be replaced by deputy national security advisor Tom Donilon, an administration official confirmed.

Jones' departure comes amid a larger turnover of staffers in the Obama White House this fall. Just a week ago, Obama announced in the East Room that Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was leaving.

Several other changes in personnel are forthcoming, the result of what White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called the "natural life expectancy" in the administration's pressure-cooker jobs.

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