anonymousliberal.com - 12/11/2008
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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 qualified candidates are likely to be tainted in ...
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 12/8/2008
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com —
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 ...
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Not Brennan. Not Hayden. Then Who?, Ctd.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
By Patrick Appel AL writes: ...it's encouraging to me that the Obama team is at least trying to find someone who is free of taint from the Bush administration. Ultimately, though, I think the person Obama selects to head up the Justice Department (Eric Holder) and the Office of Legal Counsel (not yet announced) will be much more important in steering the country away from the policies of the last eight years. The intelligence agencies will always want to do as much as they are legally permitted to do. The key is having someone ...
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