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08-25-2009, 07:05 PM
George W. Bush CIA insider key to Obama plan
By JOSH GERSTEIN, POLITICO
President Barack Obama has tried to distance himself in every way from Bush-era interrogation policies, stripping the lead role in questioning detainees from the CIA and banning the harshest tactics critics have decried as torture.
But now, Obama has chosen a man who was at the heart of Bush’s intelligence effort to play a key role in overseeing the new administration’s own interrogation policies: John Brennan, a 25-year CIA veteran who was privy to the extreme tactics Obama has declared off limits.
The White House on Tuesday refused to discuss Brennan’s exact role in the new interrogation policy.
MORE (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26437.html)
I don't know if this is the place for this thread or not, but since it seems to make so little sense in the face of the Obama assault on the CIA, it seems to fit here better than elsewhere.
By JOSH GERSTEIN, POLITICO
President Barack Obama has tried to distance himself in every way from Bush-era interrogation policies, stripping the lead role in questioning detainees from the CIA and banning the harshest tactics critics have decried as torture.
But now, Obama has chosen a man who was at the heart of Bush’s intelligence effort to play a key role in overseeing the new administration’s own interrogation policies: John Brennan, a 25-year CIA veteran who was privy to the extreme tactics Obama has declared off limits.
The White House on Tuesday refused to discuss Brennan’s exact role in the new interrogation policy.
MORE (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26437.html)
I don't know if this is the place for this thread or not, but since it seems to make so little sense in the face of the Obama assault on the CIA, it seems to fit here better than elsewhere.