The American Spectator

Washington Prowler

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BROWN NOSES br> Bush Administration foreign policy types are not thrilled with the appointment of Mark Malloch Brown , currently head of the U.N. Development Program, to take over as U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan 's chief of staff. That's because Malloch Brown is viewed as a favorite of Clinton and Kerry political and foreign policy adviser Richard Holbrooke . /p>

"You look at everything happening up there in New York, and the Clinton people are all over it," says a Foggy Bottom observer. "Holbrooke is up there openly campaigning for Annan and the U.N. It's like they think the election never happened."

Holbrooke has emerged as one of Annan's and the U.N.'s most ardent supporters in the wake of that body's embarrassing corruption scandals and the overly politicized, anti-American tenor Annan is perceived to have engendered.

Holbrooke has been pressing a pro-Annan line with the U.S. foreign policy, in an attempt to build support for Annan to remain as head of the U.N. Malloch Brown, who is British, is believed to have been the hand-picked choice of a group of Annan advisers, including Holbrooke.

p>Holbrooke was thought to be at the least the second choice for Secretary of State, had Sen. John Kerry been elected. br> /p>

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Foreign Policy, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton