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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will nominate Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr. as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin confirms. The move, which U.S. officials disclosed on Monday afternoon, will put the highest-ranking post in the U.S. military in the hands of a widely respected, combat-hardened commander who led the Afghanistan war coalition during a key transitional period during 2013-2014.The nomination also cuts short Dunford s service as the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, a job he began last October. But the rapid promotion is one of several that have marked Dunford s fast-tracked military career, which saw him leap from a one-star general to four stars in about three years. Top U.S. commander: Yes, we re winning in Afghan stanley italia istan 02:32 The president will also select Gen. Paul J. Selva, a top Air Force officer and stanley mug pilot, to serve as vice chairman, Martin confirms. Selva, who piloted transport and refueling aircraft, is currently the head of U.S. Transportation Command at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. Obama stanley quencher plans to make the announcement at the White House Tuesday, said officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren t authorized to speak publicly ahead of the an Kzhc McCain Poised for Primary Win over Hayworth
His country s own dubious political history notwithstanding, a Vienna, Austria, man has purchased a controversial political satire Web site, which claims to be buying and selling votes in the U.S. presidential election. Hans Bernhard of Vienna now runs the site, which claims to be cutting out the middleman in the electoral process. The site says that by selling one s vote directly, it would no longer be necessary for special interest groups to donate money to candidates who would then spend that money for advertising in an attempt to win vot stanley cup es.Officials in at least four U.S. states have investigated, sued or are preparing lawsuits involving vote-auction. What the uppity Austrian - or his predecessor - have not yet made clear is how the site can deliver its product. Bernhard bought the site from James Baumgartner, a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., who claim stanley vattenflaska s he established it as a master s thesis. He said he was going to create an art pr stanley mug oject with the news media coverage of the site. Baumgartner said his intent was satire: Our candidates are for sale, and by selling themselves they are treating the election as a commodity. By treating elections as commodities the next step is to treat votes like commodities. He had the site running this summer but said he closed it in late August under pressure from New York officials. Bernhard bought it for one Euro, less than a dollar, and restarted it.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will nominate Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr. as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin confirms. The move, which U.S. officials disclosed on Monday afternoon, will put the highest-ranking post in the U.S. military in the hands of a widely respected, combat-hardened commander who led the Afghanistan war coalition during a key transitional period during 2013-2014.The nomination also cuts short Dunford s service as the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, a job he began last October. But the rapid promotion is one of several that have marked Dunford s fast-tracked military career, which saw him leap from a one-star general to four stars in about three years. Top U.S. commander: Yes, we re winning in Afghan stanley italia istan 02:32 The president will also select Gen. Paul J. Selva, a top Air Force officer and stanley mug pilot, to serve as vice chairman, Martin confirms. Selva, who piloted transport and refueling aircraft, is currently the head of U.S. Transportation Command at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. Obama stanley quencher plans to make the announcement at the White House Tuesday, said officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren t authorized to speak publicly ahead of the an Kzhc McCain Poised for Primary Win over Hayworth
His country s own dubious political history notwithstanding, a Vienna, Austria, man has purchased a controversial political satire Web site, which claims to be buying and selling votes in the U.S. presidential election. Hans Bernhard of Vienna now runs the site, which claims to be cutting out the middleman in the electoral process. The site says that by selling one s vote directly, it would no longer be necessary for special interest groups to donate money to candidates who would then spend that money for advertising in an attempt to win vot stanley cup es.Officials in at least four U.S. states have investigated, sued or are preparing lawsuits involving vote-auction. What the uppity Austrian - or his predecessor - have not yet made clear is how the site can deliver its product. Bernhard bought the site from James Baumgartner, a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., who claim stanley vattenflaska s he established it as a master s thesis. He said he was going to create an art pr stanley mug oject with the news media coverage of the site. Baumgartner said his intent was satire: Our candidates are for sale, and by selling themselves they are treating the election as a commodity. By treating elections as commodities the next step is to treat votes like commodities. He had the site running this summer but said he closed it in late August under pressure from New York officials. Bernhard bought it for one Euro, less than a dollar, and restarted it.
