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Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/5/2009
Gates of Vienna —
... Obama’s Intel Picks Short on Direct Experience Obama fills key intelligence positions WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s decision to fill the nation’s top intelligence jobs with two men short on direct experience in intelligence gathering surprised the spy community and signaled the Democrat’s intention for a clean break from Bush administration policies. Former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, an eight-term congressional veteran and administrative expert, is being ...
AP: No Experience in new CIA Chief Somehow Shows Obama's 'Clean Break from Bush Administration'?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Now, if George W. Bush had picked such an inexperienced man for any government position much less one at cabinet level, the media would have crucified him -- in fact, it did if you recount the Harriet Meyers for SCOTUS debacle. So, in "Obama's intel picks short on direct experience" does the Associated Press scoff at the pick? Do they lambast Obama for picking such a completely unqualified man for CIA in a day when we are beseeched on on all sides by enemies from whom our ability to gather intelligence is a major weapon of protection? Do they decry this pick of a man with not ...
Extraordinary Revision
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Iqbal, who claims he was tortured by the Egyptian government at the behest of the Bush administration:
But the full stories of individual detainees like Mr. Iqbal are only now emerging after years in which they were shuttled around the globe under the Bush administration’s system of extraordinary rendition, which used foreign countries to interrogate and detain terrorism suspects in sites beyond the reach of American courts.
Likewise, the AP reported yesterday on the choice of Leon Panetta to head the CIA: ...
Change?
Discriminations —
... On the other hand, Panetta does at least have more national security experience than ... Barack Obama: “a two-year stint in the mid-1960s as a U.S. Army lieutenant.” ...
Tuesday at the bar
The Reaction —
... , because of their record of caving in time after time to the Bush administration's unlawful and unconstitutional demands regarding warrantless wiretapping, military tribunals, etc. Must the CIA be headed by a spy? Can the ...
AP: No Experience in new CIA Chief Somehow Shows Obama’s ‘Clean Break from Bush Administration’?
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Now, if George W. Bush had picked such an inexperienced man for any government position much less one at cabinet level, the media would have crucified him — in fact, it did if you recount the Harriet Meyers for SCOTUS debacle. So, in “Obama’s intel picks short on direct experience” does the Associated Press scoff at the pick? Do they lambast Obama for picking such a completely unqualified man for CIA in a day when we are besieged on all sides by enemies from whom our ability to gather intelligence is a major weapon of protection? Do they decry this pick ...
AP: No Experience in new CIA Chief Somehow Shows Obama’s ‘Clean Break from Bush Administration’?
Stop The ACLU —
... Leon Panetta? The onetime director of the Office of Management and Budget Panetta, that Leon Panetta? This old Clinton partisan has absolutely no experience whatsoever with intelligence gathering or the administration of the same. None. Zip. Nadda. Now, if George W. Bush had picked such an inexperienced man for any government position much less one at cabinet level, the media would have crucified him — in fact, it did if you recount the Harriet Meyers for SCOTUS debacle. So, in “ Obama’s intel picks short on direct experience ” does the Associated Press scoff at the pick? Do ...
Reviving the Rule of Law After a Lawless "War on Terror"
The Reaction —
... protections for basic civil liberties is another huge national security issue. The qualifications of the nominees to the two top "spy" positions has been the subject of a pile of public pronouncements. Senators and Representatives weighed in as did the Intel community itself. But President-elect Obama rightly stuck to his guns in nominating men who were in no way tainted by the Bush Administration's lawlessness. One of the early stories came from Yahoo! News: "Obama' picks short on direct experience" (1/5/09) . To quote: ...
