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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 12/8/2008
More Of The Same At CIA?
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by Chris Bodenner Paul Bedard reports : [Obama] might ask CIA Director Mike Hayden to stay on for a while, intelligence sources say. Much of the speculation about the CIA job has been that Obama wants a change, in part because he disagreed with the CIA's detention policies. But officials ...
anonymousliberal.com - 12/11/2008
The Hunt for a New CIA Director
— anonymousliberal.com — Back when John Brennan's name was being floated to head up the CIA, I wrote : The... universe of people who have sufficient knowledge and experience to competently run our vast and sprawling intelligence apparatus is not very large and most of the ... (more) The Hunt for a New CIA Director

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Think Progress:  The Hayden Record: Condoning Torture, Destroying Evidence, Misleading Congress

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The Hayden Record: Condoning Torture, Destroying Evidence, Misleading Congress
Think Progress — U.S. News is speculating that President-elect Barack Obama “might ask CIA Director Mike Hayden to stay on for a while.” CIA officials are advocating on his behalf: “It’s unfair to blame Hayden for things that occurred long before he took the job. But he deserves credit for standing up for the folks over there at CIA, even though a lot of the stuff he has dealt with didn’t happen on his watch,” said an intelligence official. Former CIA analyst John Brennan was compelled to ...

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