January 10, 2009
President-elect Barack Obama introduced his nominees to head his national security team on Friday. But now Obama begins a perilous balancing act to fulfill his pledge to make a clean break with the detention and interrogation policies of the Bush administration while still effectively ensuring the.....
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December 29, 2008
To follow up on Joan's post (and Digby's observations therein) on the nixed Brennan nomination for CIA head, I have to note that the attempts to blame cruel bloggers for the pulling of Brennan's nomination seem very much part and parcel of the new, sulking "establishment outrage" that's being built ...
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The CIA and establishment media push to soften the edges of torture keeps on ticking, in the form of ongoing outrage over the Brennan non-nomination and trying to turn the ire against bloggers. Here's digby, as usual saying it as well as anyone could: As hard as it is to believe, this story about li...
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Loop Fan alert! Some of the following material may be shocking. We'll warn you at the appropriate point....
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December 01, 2008
We took a break from handicapping who's in the running for jobs in President-elect Barack Obama's administration to scour the public record and find contenders who have taken themselves out of consideration. Of course, some of these politicians could have a change of heart -- especially if the presi...
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We took a break from handicapping who's in the running for jobs in President-elect Barack Obama's administration to scour the public record and find contenders who have taken themselves out of consideration. Of course, some of these politicians could have a change of heart -- especially if the......
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We took a break from handicapping who's in the running for jobs in President-elect Barack Obama's administration to scour the public record and find contenders who have taken themselves out of consideration. Of course, some of these politicians could have a change of heart -- especially if the......
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November 25, 2008
John Brennan Plays “Victim” Role In Resignation From Consideration Letter To Barry “Steve” Obama H/T goes first to MemeOrandum for the Glenn Greenwald (Salon) pull, then to Glenn Greenwald for the Andrew Sullivan (The Daily Dish) pull where he has posted an image of the... Th...
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November 18, 2008
Omri Ceren’s headline says it all: Obama’s Top NSA And CIA Picks: Harsh On Israel, Sympathetic To Iran And Hezbollah. Well that was totally unpredictable wasn’t it? General James L. Jones is widely rumored to be Obama’s preferred candidate to be White House National Security ...
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