marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 11/16/2008
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(send your transition tips and RUMINT here ; Judy Miller-level anonymity guaranteed, but for goodness sakes, use your non-government e-mail account!) On Friday, after he was announced as an agency review team member for Barack Obama, John O. Brennan submitted his resignation from INSA, an ...
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War and Piece —
| Main November 16, 2008 More tea leaves suggest John Brennan for DCI? Posted by Laura at November 16, 2008 08:54 AM
John Brennan: Change We Cannot Believe In
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... The good news from last night's 60 Minutes interview is that Obama has clearly committed himself to ending the torture policy of Bush and Cheney. But that clarity will sadly be in doubt if Marc is right and John Brennan becomes the next CIA Director: ...
Frank Naif: Obama and the Intelligence Community: Look Inside and Learn from the Past
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The Obama camp has officially been mum on expected intelligence appointments, but John Brennan, former interim director of the National Counterterrorist Center and head of a powerful intelligence contractor industry association, is mentioned often. So is ...
How the Netroots Brought Down Obama’s Spymaster
Pajamas Media —
... when his nomination process eventually began. Doing research and gathering opinions, I came across a near-universal chorus of journalists, editors, and former spies who felt Brennan to be a shoo-in. On November 15, Marc Ambinder in the Atlantic pointed out that Brennan had already taken steps to prepare for a major career transition. Pamela Hess, writing for Associated Press ...
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