President Obama plans to nominate top counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan to lead the CIA, a senior administration official said today.I will be calling my Senators (both Democrats) and asking that both of them to filibuster him. (they won't, but I am asking)
Brennan, a 25-year veteran of the agency, would take the helm of the CIA in the wake of the resignation of former Army Gen. David Petraeus.
It is very likely, though it is not certain given the veil of secrecy surrounding this matter that Brennan was an active participant in torture.
The most depressing commentary on this is Glen Greenwald's observation that there is Obama has succeeded in making opposition to torture a fringe political position:
It is a perfect illustration of the Obama legacy that a person who was untouchable as CIA chief in 2008 because of his support for Bush's most radical policies is not only Obama's choice for the same position now, but will encounter very little resistance. Within this change one finds one of the most significant aspects of the Obama presidency: his conversion of what were once highly contentious right-wing policies into harmonious dogma of the DC bipartisan consensus. Then again, given how the CIA operates, one could fairly argue that Brennan's eagerness to deceive and his long record of supporting radical and unaccountable powers make him the perfect person to run that agency. It seems clear that this is Obama's calculus.I can only conclude that Barack Obama, aka the Worst Constitutional Law Professor Ever™, is objectively pro torture.
And the morons in Sweden gave him a Nobel Peace Prize.
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