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The WP's Dana Priest: DNI pick Adm. Dennis Blair steeped in the ways of Washington. WSJ's Siobhan Gorman: "Mr. Obama is still weighing options for director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Mr. Blair is expected to advise in that selection, further cementing the intelligence director's role as the chief of all 16 intelligence agencies. Choosing Mr. Blair may reignite long-simmering tensions between military and civilian intelligence officials." NYT: "Obama aides said the official announcement of Mr. Blair’s selection as intelligence director, a post created in 2005 as part of intelligence reforms in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was not expected until next month, after the president-elect returns from a vacation in Hawaii. They said that Mr. Obama would most likely reveal his C.I.A. choice at the same time."