Looks like General Petraeus is getting in on the act of Hadley-bashing. CNN just asked Petraeus, the commanding general in Iraq, for comment on Lieutenant General Doug Lute’s likely confirmation as war czar. Petraeus lavishly praised Lute — and then threw a bit of an elbow at Hadley’s National Security Council: “I think [Lute will] probably have authorities, as I understand it, that individuals in the past that position not have had.”
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