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salon.com - 11/16/2008

John Brennan and Bush's interrogation/detention policies - Glenn Greenwald

— salon.com — (updated below) Last Wednesday, I wrote : It simply is noteworthy of comment and cause for concern... -- though far from conclusive about what Obama will do -- that Obama's transition chief for intelligence policy, John Brennan, was an ardent supporter ... (more) John Brennan and Bush's interrogation/detention policies ...

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correntewire.com - 11/16/2008

Why is it OK that Obama's transition chief for intelligence policy, John Brennan, is pro-torture?

— correntewire.com — See Glenn here . Progressives? Speak up, please! (more) Why is it OK that Obama's transition chief for ...

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"Counterintelligence"
Daily Kos — ... Of course, this is the WSJ with mostly unnamed "advisers" to the Obama transition. But there is one particular adviser on whom the article focuses: former National Counterterrorism Center chief John Brennan, the guy who is heading up Obama's intelligence transition team. You might remember Brennan for this statement supporting the Bush administration on surveillance, while he was serving as one of the advisers on intelligence and foreign policy on Obama's campaign. ...

Brennan, Harding Slated For Top Intelligence Jobs
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... who was once slated to be deputy to current DNI Mike McConnell, is a lifelong Republican who converted to Obama last year, after his friend Tony Lake asked Brennan to serve on an intelligence advisory panel. A career CIA officer, Brennan favors a holistic and systematic approach to intelligence gathering, and earned the respect of Democrats as the founding director of the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, now the National Counterrorism Center.  On terrorism, as he told National Journal's Shane Harris, United States foreign policy should be more proactive. ...

No Way. No How. No Brennan.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... In fact, I'd like to see much more evidence of whether Brennan himself is implicated in the war crimes and unlawfulness of the past eight years. If nominated, the Senate should find out. Whatever his qualities, Brennan is not change. He has even used Tenet's disgusting adoption of the Gestapo euphemism "enhanced interrogation." Here he is arguing against change earlier this year: ...

PANETTA WILL HAVE OBAMA’S BACK AT CIA
Right Wing Nut House — ... rendition and interrogation were unpleasant and rarely carried out actions that nevertheless brought real, tangible results. In Brennan’s own words, “…lives have been saved .” Unlike the Greenwalds of this world, he wasn’t a legal theorist, being paid to loaf in an office chair all day, rhapsodising on the ethical dilemmas posed by this program or that operation. He was an officer in a federal agency charged with the wartime security and wellbeing of American citizens. He clearly  did bear the ethics in mind , but was also operating within the framework of the real world, ...