Remember the old jingle - double your pleasure, double your fun?
That’s what Pentagon reporters were thinking today with the announcement of not just one new briefer – but two.
The former press secretary, Geoff Morrell, the natty dresser and occasionally combative press secretary, stepped aside after his boss, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, departed at the end of June.
Now the new Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, is bringing his public affairs aide over from the CIA, George Little.
And Navy Captain John Kirby, now the spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Admiral Mike Mullen, will move over to become a second public affairs spokesman when Mullen retires this fall.
Severe drought, crop failure, livestock deaths, soaring food prices and armed conflict are forcing millions of people in the Horn of Africa to flee their homes, creating what U.S. State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development officials Tuesday described as "staggering hunger," with more than 11 million people now in need of emergency assistance.
The drought, officials say, is the most severe in 60 years and is expected to get worse, pushing many more families into desperate searches for food and protection.
Lawyers for a terror suspect detained at Guantanamo - linked by authorities to the bombing of the USS Cole - say his waterboarding and other mistreatment plus delays in his case should force the government to halt his pending military trial and possible death sentence.
The government says Abd al Rahim Hussayn Muhammad Al-Nashiri was the mastermind behind the 2000 bombing that crippled the U.S. warship and killed 17 sailors.
Al-Nashiri's lawyers have filed a brief with the military commission asking that the proceedings stop.
At a joint news conference with India’s Foreign Minister, S. M. Krishna, in New Delhi, India Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned India’s neighbor, Pakistan, that safe havens for terrorists “cannot be tolerated anywhere.”
Asked by a U.S. reporter whether she thinks Pakistan is doing enough to combat terrorism, Clinton said “We do not believe there are any terrorists who should be given safe haven or a free pass by any government because, left unchecked, the consequences of that kind of terrorist activity and intimidation can become very difficult to manage and control.”