http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/07/19/a-key-job-is-finally-filled/President Bush will appoint Ambassador James Jeffrey, a high-level State Department official who coordinates its Iran policy, according to people familiar with the matter. Jeffrey’s appointment will be made later today, these people said.
In his new post, Jeffrey will be National Security Adviser Steve Hadley’s No. 2 and run most of the day-to-day operations of the National Security Council. The administration’s new “war czar,” Deputy National Security Adviser Army Lt. Gen. Doug Lute, will take part in regular deputy’s meetings chaired by Jeffrey.
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A colleague of Jeffrey’s said that the White House would likely prove to be a better fit than the State Department had been. The colleague noted that Jeffrey is a staunch neoconservative, which left him often sharply at odds with other high-level State Department officials. Most of the neocons who once populated the administration left their posts in recent years as the Iraq war went off the skids. At the White House, though, Jeffrey will be able to work closely with two of the other surviving neocons: Deputy National Security Adviser Elliot Abrams and David Wurmser, one of Vice President Dick Cheney’s top foreign policy staffers.
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