Cheney's man to head CIA?

[Generator]

Just when you thought Obama had you at Hillary or Lieberman -there's this lovely bit today:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/21/john-brennan-torture-tain_n_145517.html

Marc Ambinder reported Thursday evening that former National Counterrorism Center head John Brennan is Barack Obama's "favorite to be nominated director of the Central Intelligence Agency." According to Ambinder's sources, Brennan has been vetted and even begun recruiting his team.

The news has alarmed Obama supporters who remember Brennan best for his role in both faulty pre-war intelligence and agreement with Vice President Dick Cheney on torture.


http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/11/21/journalists/index.html

To appoint someone as CIA Director or Director of National Intelligence who was one of George Tenet's closest aides when The Dark Side of the last eight years was conceived and implemented, and who, to this day, continues to defend and support policies such as "enhanced interrogation techniques" and rendition (to say nothing of telecom immunity and warrantless eavesdropping), is to cross multiple lines that no Obama supporter should sanction. Truly turning a page on the grotesque abuses of the last eight years requires both symbolism (closing Guantanamo) and substantive policy changes (compelling adherence to the Army Field Manual, ensuring due process rights for all detainees, ending rendition, restoring safeguards on surveillance powers). Appointing John Brennan to a position of high authority would be to affirm and embrace, not repudiate, the darkest aspects of the last eight years.

Let's see if I can do the responses for 60% of you:

"It's just a rumor.

"We must trust Obama."

"You idiot, he's no Dennis Kucinich-didn't you know what you where voting for?"

To which I reply it sure as shit better be a rumor-you know like "dark humor" or I sure as shit will never trust Obama again and I did not vote for this.

[MadBadger]

1. Comparing Hillary and Lieberman is pretty fuckin pathetic.

[Generator]

5. No idiot that's not what I meant

Some were upset with letting Leiberman stay and some are upset with the Hillary pick-but picking a Cheney man has got to be the deal breaker. Not comparing them like you worrying about that is more important than keeping the same torture policies. Apparently anything Obama does is a okay-even keeping torutring Dick Cheney fans.

[LaurenG]

2. That would be a huge mistake and it sounds like bs, I hope it is.

:shrug:

[EFerrari]

3. He was one of the two heading up the intelligence transition team.

:shrug:

[LaurenG]

4. Oy

x(

[Metta]

6. This is a really bad choice. May as well have Cheney in there.

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[Skwmom]

7. No wonder the Neocons are so happy.

[anonymous171]

10. What neocons are you talking about? They all seem pretty upset to me.

[Seen the light]

8. This better not be true

All I'll say for right now.

[camera obscura]

9. Bad choice. Hope this is just a trial balloon.