A U.S. Blackhawk helicopter hovers over the former palace of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, which later became for a time the American embassy.
(Hussein Malla - AP)
Finding a home.
Loop Fans may remember our report a year ago that the Obama administration had penciled in Brett H. McGurk, a talented aide on the Bush II National Security Council staff and then a special adviser to President Obama, to be the next ambassador to Iraq.
But the eventual nomination stalled in the Senate and McGurk withdrew three months later — after news reports revealed a racy e-mail exchange that he had in 2008 with a Wall Street Journal reporter when both were working in Baghdad. (The couple later married.)
McGurk has been serving as a senior Iraq advisor at the State Department since then. Now, foreign policy blogger Laura Rozen reports, McGurk is likely to be named deputy assistant secretary for Iraq and Iran.
A good job — and no Senate confirmation required.
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