trip will be "one long photo-op." Gibbs also downplayed the tension between the Obama administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Colin Kahl, former deputy assistant Defense secretary for the Middle East, said that Obama has offered "record high" security funding, helped build an iron-do

ding to the report, a CIA assessment documenting Ukrainian officials' complaints was suppressed at the request of Biden's national security adviser, Colin Kahl, and excluded from the Presidential Daily Brief. The article noted that a senior CIA official called the suppression "extremely rare and unusual," s

onitor Take Israel Iran Threat 'Very Seriously,' Ex-Obama Official Says Laura Rozen Aug 14, 2012 -- Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Colin Kahl traveled to Israel 13 times during his tenure as the Obama administration's top Pentagon Middle East civilian policy advisor from 2009 to the end o