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Brennan at CIA
The Anonymous Liberal —
... Truly turning a page on the grotesque abuses of the last eight years requires both symbolism (closing Guantanamo) and substantive policy changes (compelling adherence to the Army Field Manual, ensuring due process rights for all detainees, ending rendition, restoring safeguards on surveillance powers). Appointing John Brennan to a position of high authority would be to affirm and embrace, not repudiate, the darkest aspects of the last eight years.Andrew Sullivan is also very upset: Why is such a man even considered for the post under Obama? This ...
John Brennan, Torture-Tainted CIA Prospect, Alarms Obama Supporters
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... of the last eight years requires both symbolism (closing Guantanamo) and substantive policy changes (compelling adherence to the Army Field Manual, ensuring due process rights for all detainees, ending rendition, restoring safeguards on surveillance powers). Appointing John Brennan to a position of high authority would be to affirm and embrace, not repudiate, the darkest aspects of the last eight years.
Andrew Sullivan, in a post titled "No Way. No How. No Brennan," adds:
[T]he Republican, former chief-of-staff for George Tenet (who ...
True or False
N/A —
True: “[Obama] won precisely for this reason—that moderate Democrats and moderate Republicans viewed him as a centrist pragmatist and disregarded the absolutely untrue attempts of the right to cast him as an extreme liberal.”
True: “Marc reports the Republican, former chief-of-staff for George Tenet (who authorized war crimes as CIA head), admirer of Dick Cheney, CEO of the company one of whose contract employees improperly accessed Obama’s and McCain’s ...
More Obama Appointment News
Open Left - Front Page —
... , John Brennan, is a Gitmo apologist and actually executed the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping campaign. Far-leftie Andrew Sullivan has been regularly protesting this move: ...
Obama and a Paucity of Progressives
Firedoglake —
... , opens up intelligence files and lets the public know how this horrible, malignant policy came to pass, it will go a long way towards assuring people that a choice like Brennan for CIA chief isn't just "business as usual." ...
Way To Go, Andrew
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Andrew Sullivan is livid. He is livid because there is a
possibility--perhaps even a strong one--that
John Brennan could become the new Director of Central
Intelligence. Sullivan objects to this because he thinks that
Brennan bought into "politicized" intelligence in the run-up to the
war in Iraq and that Brennan may have been involved in war crimes.
And of course, in situations like this one, it is entirely to be
expected that Sullivan would lapse into pretentiousness: ...
Way To Go, Andrew
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days —
Andrew Sullivan is livid. He is livid because there is a possibility--perhaps even a strong one--that John Brennan could become the new Director of Central Intelligence. Sullivan objects to this because he thinks that Brennan bought into "politicized" intelligence in the run-up to the war in Iraq and that Brennan may have been involved in war crimes. And of course, in situations like this one, it is entirely to be expected that Sullivan would lapse into pretentiousness: The least we know is that Brennan is ambivalent about this. Ambivalence on this matter is unacceptable. We ...
Brennan withdraws from consideration
Political Animal —
... , 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 to move far away from those policies, should not make room for Brennan in his administration. The criticism seems to ...
Who's Going to Run C.I.A.?
Taylor Marsh —
... I was not involved in the firestorm that erupted over John Brennan (see here,
here).
My opposition to him revolved around his viewpoints on rendition, as well as
his defense of them. ...
PANETTA WILL HAVE OBAMA’S BACK AT CIA
Right Wing Nut House —
... the result of a lot of noise from the usual suspects on the left: Contrary to false claims , American laws were not broken. No one is going to prison. Nothing even slightly unseemly has been uncovered — indeed, Brennan has a proven history of complete candor in discussing his views on those subjects with the media. There is nothing whatever to suggest that Brennan would disobey the now existing legislative prohibition on the use of waterboarding. He is as entitled to his views as anyone else, and has been both consistent and articulate in expressing them. As a direct result ...
