Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Ashton Carter To Be Nominated For Secretary Of Defense

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter is expected to be nominated by the president to replace his former boss Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense.  Carter had also served as Deputy Secretary under Hagel's predecessor Leon Panetta.  Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, who also has been the General Counsel at the Pentagon, had also been under consideration.

Ashton Carter has an impressive academic record, including degrees in physics and medieval history from Yale and a doctorate in physics from Oxford.  He has been on the faculty at Harvard and has lectured at Stanford.  Carter has worked at the Pentagon in a civilian capacity as a technical analyst and as its chief weapons buyer.

Read more at CNN, The Washington Post, Fox News, The New York Times and Yahoo News.

UPDATE:  According to gotnews, Carter wrote articles in the Yale school newspaper calling for reforming the CIA.

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