[Peace-discuss] Obama and torture

[C. G. Estabrook]

Brennan, a long-time spook, turned out to be too covered in the blood and shit 
that the policies Obama embraces have produced to be DNI or head of the CIA. 
But aren't you shocked that Obama was going to appoint him until stopped by the 
outcry?  As a result, Obama has put off appointments to posts in the 
"intelligence community" (hateful phrase: see Tim Weiner's new book).  And 
Brennan remains "adviser on intelligence matters and co-leader of his 
intelligence transition team." (The transition teams -- e.g., "Homeland 
Security" -- are run by rightists.)  --CGE

Stuart Levy wrote:
>> ...Obama has appointed former CIA official John O. Brennan as an adviser on
>> intelligence matters and co-leader of his intelligence transition team.
>> Brennan has called "rendition" – the kidnap-and-torture program carried out
>> under the Clinton and Bush administrations – a "vital tool", and praised
>> the CIA's interrogation techniques for providing "lifesaving"
>> intelligence...
>> --William Blum, "The Anti-Empire Report," 1 December 2008 
>> <www.killinghope.org>
 >
 > Is this still the case?   Glenn Greenwald's piece on Nov. 25th, last Tuesday,
 > http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/11/25/john_brennan/ "Exceptional
 > news: John Brennan won't be CIA Director or DNI" notes with pleasure that
 > Brennan has withdrawn his name from consideration as director of national
 > intelligence or as CIA director. (Or is Blum suggesting an appointment to
 > some other position instead?) I'm not seeing anything recent in Google News
 > about Brennan except comments on his withdrawal.
 >