Daniel Mudd once helped GE weather the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, and he was also decorated for combat service in Beirut, Lebanon, after Marine barracks were bombed in 1985. So officials on Fannie Mae’s Board of Directors apparently decided he was the right person to help the firm recover from its own financial, political, and accounting wounds on a permanent basis. Mudd, 46, was named the official replacement for former CEO Franklin…