baltimoresun.com - 11/18/2008
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P resident-elect Barack Obama is sending conflicting signals on whether he intends to change the bankrupt culture of Washington's intelligence community and to introduce genuine reform to the Central Intelligence Agency . He appears to be ready to remove the top two intelligence officials, ...
americanprogressaction.org - 11/12/2008
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A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President change
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counterterrorismblog.org - 11/14/2008
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It’s a curious thing about elections: they have
consequences. Still, Washington’s favorite parlor game (for those who...
have parlors) at the moment is the peculiar effort to divine which Bush appointees will be sticking around in Barack ...
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It Doesn't Take Intelligence: 'Change' Is Coming
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Obama's Intelligence Transition Chief Undercuts Message of Change
Open Left - Front Page —
While Obama sent some very good signals about closing Guantanamo and ending torture on 60 Minutes, a closer look shows that all is not well. In an op-ed in the Baltimore Sun last Friday, "Change in intelligence?", former CIA and State Department analyst Mel Goodman discussed two stupendously bad top transition figures in the intelligence realm: Goodman praised Obama for his willingness to replace two top figures, but went on to question who Obama has on his team: ...
John Brennan, Torture-Tainted CIA Prospect, Alarms Obama Supporters
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Melvin Goodman, a retired CIA intelligence analyst, lambasted Obama in the Baltimore Sun for relying on "discredited cronies" like Brennan. ...
Tim Shorrock and Frank Naif: Top Intelligence Picks a No-Win for Obama
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Former intelligence officers have also voiced loud concerns about Brennan and others on Obama's national security team. Melvin Goodman, former career CIA intelligence analyst and author of Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA, penned an op-ed in the Baltimore Sun that denounced Brennan and Jami Miscik, another Obama intelligence advisor, as "discredited cronies of the Tenet era." Goodman further elaborated on Brennan's and Miscik's complicity in several key Bush Administration intelligence foul-ups, including torture and rendition, warrantless ...
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