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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18845468-2702,00.html Spy steps in for Bush in Canberra Amanda Hodge April 18, 2006A TOP US spy who has helped shape the Bush administration's post-9/11 anti-terrorism strategy has been called on to fill the breach as acting US ambassador to Australia from July. US embassy staff in Canberra confirmed yesterday that Carol Rodley had been appointed as the embassy's deputy chief of mission, replacing the existing chief of mission and acting ambassador Bill Stanton. Ms Rodley, the current acting assistant secretary for the US State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, looks likely to step in as acting ambassador after George W.Bush's nominee for the position hit a block last week. Australia has been without a US ambassador since close Bush ally Tom Schieffer left the post in February last year to take up the prestigious role of ambassador to Japan. The 14-month wait has prompted political observers to question how much the US values the relationship with Australia. Mr Bush finally nominated his long-time friend and Yale alumni Robert McCallum for the post last month, but Senate approval was stymied after Democrat senator Dick Durbin acted to put a hold on the nomination. Senator Durbin said Mr McCallum should not be given a position of trust while he was under investigation by the Justice Department for his role in a case against the tobacco industry. As Associate Attorney-General, Mr McCallum has been accused of pressuring Justice Department lawyers to reduce the amount of compensation payable by the tobacco industry for its decades-long denial that nicotine is addictive. Mr McCallum has denied the allegations, but his nomination remains on hold. A spokeswoman for the US embassy in Canberra confirmed yesterday that Ms Rodley would be required to step in as acting ambassador when Mr Stanton leaves for Korea, if Mr McCallum's nomination had not been approved. As one of Washington's most senior spies, Ms Rodley is responsible for briefing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and before her Colin Powell, on issues of national importance, including terror threats in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. Ms Rodley told a US senate committee hearing on intelligence last year that Indonesia posed the most serious terror risk to US interests of all nations in the Asia-Pacific because of the presence of Islamic extremist group Jemaah Islamiah. "This is of particular concern because of Jemaah Islamiah's affiliation with al-Qa'ida," she told the hearing. "So the question of targeting US interests is one we are very concerned about." Ms Rodley has helped oversee the creation of a "Team al-Qa'ida" and the implementation of intelligence reform recommendations from the 9/11 Commission report. In Australia, she is expected to liaise with domestic intelligence and law-enforcement agencies on terrorist threats within the region. 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