Bush was the torturer-in-chief who started two wars and turned Guantanamo into a Caribbean Dachau, not Obama. And when Goodman asks Wilkerson what he thinks of Brennan in the quotation above, I notice that instead of answering the question he launches into a sermon against a program that in four years has evidently killed less than 1% of the people Bush and Cheney slaughtered annually. And if it weren't for Obama we'd probably be bombing the daylights out of Tehran.

I understand the outrage people feel about drones, but I think this line of objection is intended to shoot down Obama's nominees for reasons unrelated to that program. The problem with Brennan as with Hagel is that they aren't gung-ho enough about bombing Iran and that's probably what the current drone outrage is all about.

and for very good reasons .. in not so distant future.

Brennan being a creepy BushCo insider noted for torture, renditions, Kill
lists, and summarily murdering "suspects" -- even US citizens -- at the
President's discretion is apparently of no concern whatsoever to you, which
I find more than a little disturbing.

Your insinuation that those who are adamantly resisting Brennan's nomination
are doing so because of some vaguely defined ulterior partisan motive to make
Obama "look bad" is also laughable on it's face, at least in this case.

So you think Brennan is a prudent politically astute nomination for Obama
to make? You honestly think that his track record is sufficiently aligned with
core precepts of the US Constitution? .. really?

Please proceed, to clarify how Brennan is such a great nominee to run the CIA.

There's plenty more rope where that came from, as needed.

Oh, and welcome to DU

Brennan was an administrator in DC. What track record are you talking about here? Can you get more specific than a quotation from a Bush guy who doesn't even mention Brennan, and if he had I'm assuming you would have posted it?

did you not read the OP?

The USA's drone warfare program is "Brennan's baby".

He's also murdered at least 2 American citizens that we know about,
of which I'm sure you are also aware, unless you've been living in
a cave for the past 5 years.

If they existed at all, they were only expressed privately, off the record,
which can be easily fabricated after the fact, which is why here-say is not
allowed as testimony in a court of law. <-- a quaint artifact from when
we lived under the rule of law.

Also, assuming there were concerns, they were primarily that CIA torturers
would be thrown under the bus, once it was exposed. But now with Obama
at the helm, they apparently have no such concerns. In other words,
Brennan expressed no concern whatsoever (nor is he rumored to have any
concerns) about "enhanced interrogation" torture being unconstitutional.

because he was a Bush operative? How do you work that out?
All the Bush/Republican/Iraq War supporters who Obama nominates, the supporters like to suggest that it is not the torture, not the bigotry, they constantly and instantly go McCarthy...insinuations of ulterior motives, as if torture and open hate speech were not enough, as if supporting the Iraq War was not enough to oppose all of them. Idiots who made the worst military decision in American history.
What I'd like to know is specifically why the supporters of these Bush Guys like them so much. I think they have insidious, hidden reasons, unrelated to American security.
Hagel, anti choice, anti gay, a hate speaking Republican who voted for the Iraq War and every other war he ever was asked to support. Why anyone thinks he'd hesitate to go to war when he rushed to invade Iraq to find WMD that were not even there is something that they need to explain clearly.

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