{"id":3582,"date":"2010-10-08T10:34:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T14:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=3582"},"modified":"2010-10-08T10:34:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T14:34:25","slug":"breaking-national-security-advisor-jim-jones-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/08\/breaking-national-security-advisor-jim-jones-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: National Security Advisor Jim Jones to Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal is <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704657304575539880449102618.html\" target=\"_blank\">reporting<\/a> that President Obama&#8217;s National Security Advisor Jim Jones is resigning. He is expected to be replaced by Tom Donilon, the deputy national-security adviser.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not uncommon for advisers or cabinet members to resign, but I can&#8217;t recall ever seeing this many high profile presidential advisers leave in such a short time span&#8230; It&#8217;s starting to look like rats fleeing a sinking ship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/08\/donilon-to-replace-jones-as-national-security-adviser\/?hp\" target=\"_blank\">Donilon to Replace Jones as National Security Adviser<\/a> &#8211; The New York Times<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal is reporting that President Obama&#8217;s National Security Advisor Jim Jones is resigning. He is expected to be replaced by Tom Donilon, the deputy national-security adviser. It&#8217;s not uncommon for advisers or cabinet members to resign, but I can&#8217;t recall ever seeing this many high profile presidential advisers leave in such a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[57,1072,1071,462],"class_list":{"0":"post-3582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"tag-barack-obama","8":"tag-jim-jones","9":"tag-national-security-advisor","10":"tag-obama-administration","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-VM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":999,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/16\/change\/","url_meta":{"origin":3582,"position":0},"title":"Change?","author":"Jeff","date":"November 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting bit of political trivia from Newsmax.com: Of the 47 appointees named so far to transition or staff posts, 31 have ties to the Clinton administration, including all but one member of the 12-person Transition Advisory Board. 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