>https://wikileaks.org/saudi-cables/doc16698.html
Translation attached, but this is the gist…
Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Riyadh
The embassy would like to report that the US president announced today Friday 13 Rabiul-Awwal 1434 H (January 25, 2013) Appointment of Mr. Denis Mekadno (McDonough Dennis) was appointed to the post senior official of the White House, one of the most important government posts. The successor to Mr. Jack Lu (Lew Jack) Knowing that this appointment does not need for approval by the Senate where he is a position in the president's office.
It states that Mr. Mekadno was an assistant to the president and deputy National Security advisor in the first period of Obama's presidency, one of the closest associates of the American president, who he worked with when he was a member of the Senate. Born in the year 1961, Graduated from Johns Saint University in 1992. With Master's degree from University (Georgetown) in 1996, then he worked as a staff member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House until the year 2004. Sample party leader 1999. Between 1999 Democrat in the Senate at the time, Senator Tom Daschle, in Senior foreign policy advisor post, 2007 sample candidate Obama's senior advisor for Foreign policy, he was one of the closest advisors on whom the President had relief during his campaign. After the election, the president appointed him as head of the department of Strategic Communication in the National Security Council, plus Senior National Security Council officer position in 2010.