DISQUS

KLG · 1 year ago

Eggszactly! More of the same, please.

grandma · 1 year ago

This is good news !!

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

probably a job at halliburton or kbr or blackwater waiting for him.

Older_Wiser · 1 year ago

Brennan is also the guy who ran the company that looked into Obama's (and others') passport information. Do you suppose Obama is trying to turn the other cheek on some of these people?

Torture should be a job killer, though.

Rev_Sacrilege · 1 year ago

You make your bed, now you sleep in it, Brennan. A-hole.

MGBYG · 1 year ago

Not a fan of Gates, tho! We about one fer ten, now?

Won't be able to put it in auto-pilot...Progressives will need to work just as hard now, if not harder than before!

Rufus · 1 year ago

For those that tortured or aided and abetted tortured, forget their job hunt, how about serious jail time -- and maybe even more as some died under torture. Torturing to death has no statute of limitations.

Harv Bennett · 1 year ago

What exactly is the problem with naming Mr. Richard ("Against All Enemies") Clarke? Experienced, intellegent, reasonable, well spoken, and even a Republican (until he broke with the Bush Misadminsitration)? Richard Clarke is the right man at this time. Sure, he happens to know where a lot of bodies are buried, but all these spooks know that stuff. Obama is calling the policy, so he should lay down the law on bygones if that's what he wants, but let someone competent like Clarke do the job they are trained and experienced for. If they didn't break with Bush, how good are they?

cosanostradamus · 1 year ago

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I guess Obama doesn't watch "24." Torture not only saves the universe, it's entertaining!

Wait. He's not going to fire Jack, now is he?
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ahaque · 1 year ago

John
The spirit of this clause seems to be that a person cannot be a Cabinet Secretary and a Senator at the same time. Once she is officially appointed and before confirmation, she will resign her Senate seat. So where is the problem?

Wolfsinger · 1 year ago

Great news. One for the win column.

Now...can we get the same forces together to have Reid removed as Senate Majority "leader"?

And no. Its not just the Lieberman issue all though that SHOULD be enough. Its the entire...holding the Bush regime accountable for war crimes, illegal spying and crimes against the Constitution is "off the table" issue.

I mean, what's it going take for these crimes to be prosecuted? I'm asking!

DCindie · 1 year ago

Brennan has been a critic of the Bush policies for quite some time, and one can hardly say he was responsible for creating the policies he's been sacked with, unfairly, too, I might add.

What I also am troubled by is the fact that the Obama team didn't even push back on these charges from certain bloggers, despite the fact that the team has been taking advice from Brennan for months on foreign policy/national security matters. Is Obama going to cave any time Sullivan and company get all up at arms?

Furthermore, applying logic used to call for denying Brennan a position in the Obama administration, why are we okay with Hillary as Sec of State, or Biden as Veep? They both voted for the War in Iraq, for example, and yet we didn't rally for them to walk the plank, so to speak. People can change their views and are far from static individuals (assuming that Brennan even approved personally of harsh interrogation techniques after 9/11, which based on what I've seen used to attack him, is conjectural, anyway).

Although Bush's terrible torture policies will be a scar on American history, many bloggers have attacked Brennan through a guilt by association approach, and without much more to go on. Aren't some of these tactics the same the GOP used against Obama during the election?

I think Brennan would have been a respectable, professional member of Obama's government, and we need experienced voices like his to guide this country moving forward. And before you flame me, I want you all to know that I have been on the Obama train for months. But that doesn't mean I am am barred from pointing out my frustration/criticism with the events leading up to Brennan's resignation letter.

BroD · 1 year ago

Whoa--wait, DCindie! I certainly wish Biden, Clinton and other legislators have been more forceful in opposition to the war and the unconstitutional policies and practices of the Bush/Cheney administration but their culpability is of a different order than someone who was engaged in the executive development and implementation of those policies and practices.

Perhaps Brennan had misgivings and expressed them internally but the fact remains he was part of the team responsible for these egregious transgressions. I can be philosophic about a lot of issues--but not torture. What happened at Abu Ghahib was symptomatic of a cancer on the Constitution and there should be no room in the Obama administration for anyone associated with it..

It may not be entirely fair to Brennan and I can feel sorry for him in a "wrong place and wrong time" sort of way--but , then again, his prospects are a lot better than most of the people on that list.