President Obama has nominated Jeh Johnson to succeed Janet Napolitano as Homeland Security secretary. If confirmed, Johnson would be the first African-American DHS secretary. Johnson was named by Obama as the DoD general counsel in February 2009. He was one of the legal architects of the U.S. military’s counterterrorism policies, one biography says. Johnson’s lack of direct IT security experience shouldn’t be seen as a liability, however, Sen. Tom Carper says it’s welcome news.”]
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