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Having written a book about Bill Clinton and some of his friends at Fannie Mae, I knew that Thomas Donilon, just announced by President Obama to replace Gen. James Jones as national security adviser, had lobbied for Fannie during the Bush II administration.

The job of national security adviser is considered a White House appointment and so doesn’t require Senate confirmation. Just as well. No one has ever accused Donilon of wrongdoing, but it wouldn’t have mattered with the economy in its current sad shape. What a wild hearing that would have been. (Oh, and when he was in private law practice, Goldman Sachs was a client.)

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