cqpolitics.com - 11/15/2008
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CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS – INTELLIGENCE Nov. 14, 2008 – 4:06 p.m. Hill Democrats Wait for Obama Stance on Interrogation Standards By Tim Starks, CQ Staff Top Democrats on congressional intelligence panels could be heading for conflict with President-elect Barack Obama over interrogation policies, a ...
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Is Obama moving away from interrogation reform?
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... One of the few points of agreement between the two presidential candidates came on the issue of interrogation techniques. Both Barack Obama and John McCain want to have greater restrictions on the use of harsh techniques, although they differed on a bill that would have placed the CIA under the same set of restrictions as the Department of Defense. Now, though, aides to Obama now hint that Obama may not agree to using the Army field manual as the outer limit of CIA interrogation techniques: Although Obama issued a statement during the campaign supporting the idea of ...
“GOP senator: McCain betrayed Republican principles”
protein wisdom —
... from which, provided Obama is unable (or, more likely, secretly unwilling ) to undue the progress — we’ll see in the decades to come, forcing honest historians to re-evaluate the Bush legacy. McCain was always a bad choice. Palin, at least, energized the base, and could have been groomed, as VP, to bring conservatism (of the legal, rather than the “moral” stripe) back to the White House. That McCain’s final bit of work, after running an ...
Hullabaloo —
Kicking It Down The Road By digby More jockeying on torture: Top Democrats on congressional intelligence panels could be heading for conflict with President-elect Barack Obama over interrogation policies, a subject over which they often clashed with President Bush. Obama said earlier this year he supported legislation that would have mandated that the CIA and other agencies subscribe to a 2006 Army field manual’s guidelines on interrogation practices, which would have the effect of ...
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Crooks and Liars —
CQ Politics: Hill Democrats wait for Obama's stance on interrogation standards, and as a transition team for the Obama administration begins work on a Justice Department overhaul, the key question is where to begin.
Secrecy News: The possibilities for significant changes in government secrecy policy are starting to attract official attention as the presidential transition process begins.
Incertus: Something's missing from this story
The Washington Monthly: Demint targets McCain
Prairie Weather ...
John Brennan: Change We Cannot Believe In
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Well: waterboarding isn't even currently used under Bush any more. Talk about low expectations. And anyone close to Tenet has no place in an administration eager to restore America's moral standing. This report from CQ is also very disturbing: ...
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