iht.com - 11/25/2008
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WASHINGTON : John Brennan, President-elect Barack Obama's top adviser on intelligence, took his name out of the running Tuesday for any intelligence position in the new administration. Brennan wrote in a Nov. 25 letter to Obama that he did not want to be a distraction. His potential appointment ...
marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 11/21/2008
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marcambinder.theatlantic.com —
Democratic and national security sources say that former
National Counterrorism Center head John Brennan remains the favorite
to be nominated director of the Central Intelligence Agency even as his pending appointment raises the hackles of some Obama ...
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Brennan, Harding Slated For Top Intelligence Jobs
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 11/21/2008
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com —
Marc reports the Republican, former chief-of-staff for George
Tenet (who authorized war crimes as CIA head), admirer
of Dick Cheney, CEO of the company one of whose contract employees improperly accessed Obama's and McCain's passports, and ...
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No Way. No How. No Brennan.
firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 11/25/2008
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From NBC's Robert WindremIn a letter to President-elect
Obama, John Brennan has asked that his name be
withdrawn from consideration as CIA director. Brennan was thought to be the leading candidate for the job. He was the former chief of staff to ...
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Brennan withdraws name for top spy
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Report: Brennan Out of Consideration For Intelligence Post
TalkLeft —
Score one for the "morons." Brennan out: John Brennan, President-elect Barack Obama's top adviser on intelligence, has taken his name out of the running for any intelligence position in the new administration. In a letter Tuesday, Brennan wrote letter to Obama that he did not want to be a distraction. His potential appointment has raised a firestorm in liberal blogs who associate him with the Bush administration's interrogation, detention and rendition policies. In case people were wondering, THIS is why you do not wait to express your ...
Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Sullivan Celebrate "Exceptional News": John Brennan Won't Be CIA Director
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... John Brennan, a top adviser to Barack Obama on intelligence issues who had been widely rumored to be the President-elect's top choice for CIA director, has taken himself out of the running. Bloggers, including Salon's ...
Brennan Is Out
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Tonight was the night that I had set aside to go over John Brennan's record in detail and post on it. But lo! I don't have to:
"John Brennan, President-elect Barack Obama's top adviser on intelligence, took his name out of the running Tuesday for any intelligence position in the new administration.
Brennan wrote in a Nov. 25 letter to Obama that he did not want to be a distraction. His potential appointment as CIA director has raised a firestorm in liberal blogs that associate him with the Bush administration's interrogation, ...
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No Way. No How. No Brennan
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 11/25/2008 — Scott Horton :
The problem isn’t John Brennan’s lack of credentials. He was a career intelligence operative who gets consistently strong marks for his effectiveness and intelligence from people who have worked with him. But he has a critical ...
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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 ...
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anonymousliberal.com 11/21/2008 — Various reports have indicated that John Brennan, a man who worked closely with George Tenet at the CIA during the early part of the Bush administration, is Obama's likely choice as Director of National Intelligence. For a number of reasons, those of ...
Report: Brennan Out of Consideration For Intelligence Post
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Brennan Withdraws From Consideration for Administration Post
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Enemy combatant question to test Obama —
First Read 11/25/2008
From NBC’s Pete Williams We may know later today whether the U.S. Supreme Court will take up one of the biggest unanswered questions in the war on terror: Can the government pick up people in the United States and declare them enemy combatants?
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