digbysblog.blogspot.com - 11/25/2008
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Sunday, November 16, 2008 Non-negotiable by digby Greenwald and Talk Left have been sounding some small alarms about Obama's intelligence advisor John Brennan and it's definitely something to keep a close eye on. I've speculated before that the intelligence community is going to put a lot of ...
mediamatters.org - 11/21/2008
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In anticipation of the new administration, Beltway media
insiders are busy laying the groundwork for how reporters...
and pundits will treat the new team on Pennsylvania Avenue. "Once a president takes office ... an adversarial relationship ...
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Boehlert: Covering new presidents: the media's double ...
digbysblog.blogspot.com - 11/24/2008
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Sunday, November 23, 2008 Pushing The Argot Of
The Left by digby David Sirota has written an...
intriguing post about the potential "ghettoization" of politics and policy in the Obama administration: This quote, from the New York Times story asserting ...
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digbysblog.blogspot.com - 11/21/2008
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 Guilty Participants by digby
David Sirota makes note of the media being among...
those members of the political establishment who pretend to be "innocent bystanders" As anyone who has read my columns, blog posts or book knows, ...
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Brennan withdraws from consideration
Political Animal —
BRENNAN WITHDRAWS FROM CONSIDERATION.... A number of bloggers -- most notably Glenn Greenwald , Digby , and Andrew Sullivan -- have raised serious concerns about intelligence official John Brennan, who's been rumored to be a possible candidate for either the CIA director or the Director of National Intelligence in the Obama administration. Brennan's critics accused him of supporting some of the Bush administration's most offensive intelligence-gathering policies, including rendition and "enhanced interrogation techniques." Obama, they said, even if he intended ...
Brennan Is Out
Obsidian Wings —
... 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, detention and rendition policies."
This really is a victory for Glenn Greenwald, Scott Horton, Andrew Sullivan, Digby, and the other bloggers who protested Brennan's appointment.
Congratulations. ...
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Enemy combatant question to test Obama —
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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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