Leave a Comment

Hullabaloo — ... he read while googling his name isn't particularly relevant. But the fact that members of the CIA are still obsessing over this and using Fox and the NY Daily News and now CNN to pimp this story is fairly creepy. The Obama administration should clear this up. This is a typical bureaucratic power play, but allowing the CIA to blame political bloggers for ruining their careers is nothing to fool around with. Update: And "clearing it up" like this is the exact opposite of the right thing to do. .

The Ongoing Torture Fight
Daily Kos — ... So you've got the CIA doing their damnedest to intimidate the Obama team. Whether they are doing it to cover their asses and pre-emptively waylay potential investigations into their activities, or actually want to justify these programs to continue them, they've found a willling acomplice in the traditional media, which is spoiling for a fight between Obama and the left base. Unfortunatey, one anonymous Obama transition "observer" is willing to play the game, giving this ridiculous comment to WaPo: ...