andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 11/25/2008
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The good news from last night's 60 Minutes interview is that Obama has clearly committed himself to ending the torture policy of Bush and Cheney. But that clarity will sadly be in doubt if Marc is right and John Brennan becomes the next CIA Director: Brennan's long association George ...
salon.com - 11/25/2008
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salon.com —
(updated below - Update II) This is really
exceptional news on multiple levels -- the best political...
news I've heard since the election: Brennan out of running for top intel post John Brennan, President-elect Barack Obama's top adviser on ...
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Exceptional news: John Brennan won't be CIA Director or ...
harpers.org - 11/25/2008
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harpers.org —
Today at a press conference in Chicago Barack
Obama introduced his economic team. The market reacted by...
giving the president-elect a big kiss, with the Dow closing up about 400 points. The team shaping up behind the new president will reassure many; ...
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SCOTT HORTON—John Brennan for CIA? Think Again
firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 11/25/2008
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firstread.msnbc.msn.com —
From NBC's Robert WindremIn a letter to President-elect
Obama, John Brennan has asked that his name be...
withdrawn from consideration as CIA director. Brennan was thought to be the leading candidate for the job. He was the former chief of staff to ...
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Brennan withdraws name for top spy
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Gates to Stay on as Defense Secretary; Brennan Out of CIA Running
Politics Daily —
... Brennan reportedly privately told colleagues that he opposed waterboarding terror suspect and questioned the legality of other interrogation techniques. Some blogs are bringing up past statement he has made, such as denouncing waterboarding while at the same time saying it gas bore some fruit in the War on Terror, and saying rendition - sending terror suspects to countries that have more lax torture laws than we do - ...
Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Sullivan Celebrate "Exceptional News": John Brennan Won't Be CIA Director
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... and the Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan, had vociferously opposed Brennan on the grounds that he had reportedly supported the torture of terrorist detainees and the governments extraordinary rendition program. In his ...
Brennan loses CIA job after ties to torture
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Good. People complained, and the guy didn't get the job. This is change we can believe in. And someone (well, someone else) is finally paying a price for the sins of the past eight years. ...
Brennan Is Out
Obsidian Wings —
... on intelligence, took 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. ...
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No Way. No How. No Brennan.
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 11/21/2008 —
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No Way. No How. No Brennan
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Change We Can Believe In
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Obama should be like Bush
the-reaction.blogspot.com 11/10/2008 — By Michael J.W. Stickings At least according to TNR's Jonathan Cohn. Cohn argues that has actually accomplished a great deal as president, from overhauling the tax code to reforming education to gutting the regulatory state to rewriting ...
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lefarkins.blogspot.com 11/18/2008 — This story , indicating that the Obama administration is bailing on the idea even investigating whether criminal charges ought to be brought against Bush administration officials who committed war crimes such as torture, is very discouraging. From the ...
Insider Interview: John Brennan (03/07/2008)
news.nationaljournal.com 11/13/2008 — Q&A: JOHN BRENNAN The Counterterror Campaign National Journal Group Inc. Friday, March 7, 2008 John Brennan is a former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, the current chairman of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, and a ...
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pajamasmedia.com 11/11/2008 — November 11, 2008 NO SURPRISE: "President-elect Barack Obama is unlikely to radically overhaul controversial Bush administration intelligence policies, advisers say, an approach that is almost certain to create tension within the Democratic Party. ...
Enemy combatant question to test Obama —
First Read 11/25/2008
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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