Bush Prepares Crisis Briefings to Aid Obama

Upon Leaving, Bush Decides to Prepare... Obama
Taylor Marsh — BY TAYLOR MARSH One question: Considering Bush’s utter incompetence and foreign policy failings, why would President Obama, once inaugurated, follow any of Bush-Cheney’s suggested contingency plans? Via the NY Times: ...

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The Early Word: Presidents Past, Present and Future
The Caucus — ... to stay in Blair House beginning in early January, both the incoming and outgoing administrations have appeared cooperative when it comes to the transition process. The Times’s Peter Baker reports on another sign of that today — the White House has taken steps to aid the Obama team in case of a sudden foreign crisis in the first days of Mr. Obama’s presidency: The memorandums envision a variety of volatile possibilities, like a North Korean nuclear explosion, a cyberattack on American computer systems, a terrorist strike on United States facilities overseas or a ...

Transition News 12/17
The Stump — Sources tell the Chicago Sun-Times that Emanuel urged Blago's people to pick Jarrett for Senate seat. Obama energizes supporters of early childhood education. Offering guidance in a (hypothetical) storm, Bush prepares crisis plans for Obama. Bush's HUD secretary blames Congress for mortgage failings. Why Dems are hurrying to find a Salazar replacement in Colorado. Missouri Congressman Cleaver says African Americans should lower their expectations of Obama. ...

World's shortest meeting
The Reaction — By Carl Headline today: Bush Prepares Crisis Briefings to Aid Obama: WASHINGTON — The White House has prepared more than a dozen contingency plans to help guide President-elect Barack Obama if an international crisis erupts in the opening days of his administration, part of an elaborate operation devised to smooth the first transition of power since Sept. 11, 2001. ***** Mr. Bush said Tuesday that a top priority in his final days in office is to help Mr. Obama get ready to govern. "We care about ...

Bush gives Obama crises plans
The Swamp — ... To that end, Peter Baker of the New York Times reports that the Bush White House is to an unprecedented degree leaving cheat sheets for the incoming administration on how to handle a wide range of emergencies that could arise early in the presidency. ...

Thanks, But No Thanks
Daily Kos — From the New York Times: Bush Prepares Crisis Briefings to Aid Obama By PETER BAKER Published: December 16, 2008 WASHINGTON — The White House has prepared more than a dozen contingency plans to help guide President-elect Barack Obama if an international crisis erupts in the opening days of his administration, part of an elaborate operation devised to smooth the first transition of power since Sept. 11, 2001. The memorandums envision a variety of volatile possibilities, like a North Korean nuclear explosion, a cyberattack ...

Why Throwing Shoes is Not Enough
Firedoglake — In keeping with his final Farewell, I Screwed You All Tour, our President has, according this Times article, directed his henchmen to leave President-Elect Obama a set of crisis warning briefings about potential trouble spots around the world. The Times interviews sympathetic experts who proclaim what a thoughtful gesture this is. On which planet? The only useful warnings Bush could leave Obama are ones he can read on the front pages of the nation's/world’s newspapers. Allow me to write the Executive Summary of the new Bush Report, Watch out for the Shoes!: ...