The Safety Squad

Obama's expected security team: Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State; Robert Gates, Defense Secretary; Jim Jones, National Security Adviser (photoshop work mine)

President-elect Barack Obama will unveil his superhero national security team tomorrow at a press conference in Illinois. Sen. Hillary Clinton will be nominated secretary of state, CNN reports.

Obama is also expected to confirm that he is keeping Defense Secretary Robert Gates in his current post. Retired Marine Gen. Jim Jones is expected to be named Obama's national security adviser at the White House, a CNN source says.

Susan Rice and Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitanoas will join the super squad as United Nations ambassador and homeland security secretary. Eric Holder will round out the team as attorney general.

Obama has taken some criticism in recent weeks over his some of his Cabinet picks. Critics are saying that his picks so far have failed to reflect the change he promised during the campaign.

"What we are going to do is combine experience with fresh thinking. But understand ... the vision for change comes first and foremost ... from me. That's my job," Obama said last week.

But even some Republicans are excited for Obama's security team. Retiring Republican Sen. John Warner, a veteran member of the Armed Services Committee, released a statement last night praising all three of Obama's nominees . . . even thought they haven't been officially announced yet.

"The triumvirate of Gates, Clinton and Jones to lead Obama's 'national security team' instills great confidence at home and abroad; and, further strengthens the growing respect for the President-elect's courage and ability to exercise sound judgment in selecting the 'best and the brightest' to implement our nation's security policies," Warner said.