Obama Signals His Reluctance to Look Into Bush Policies

“And part of my job,” he continued, “is to make sure that, for example, at the C.I.A., you’ve got extraordinarily talented people who are working very hard to keep Americans safe. I don’t want them to suddenly feel like they’ve got spend their all their time looking over their shoulders.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/us/politics/12inquire.html

Bwahahahahahah! This guy is just so PREDICTABLE.

He'd rather have us spending all out time looking over OUR shoulders.

P.S. If this was posted somewhere else I either couldn't find it or didn't look hard enough.

Guess so.

:mad:

If Obama keeps going in this direction then the dems may get a nasty surprise in the 2010 elections (and not a good one either).

what you wanted. Good job.

What would be an unpredictable response-firing the whole lot of them and hiring novices? Since I've never worked for the CIA, I don't know. I guess experience doesn't matter.

I'd rather never having seen this garbage at all.

This isn't me dear. This is your idol.

edit: Just to say that don't you think I all remember any and all the posts that you joined in hoping that once these clowns were over out and gone, they'd get the punishment they deserved?

the novice vs. experience question. So, who would you prefer since the CIA isn't going away?

As for predictable, you're trying to make that an insult. I'm trying to show you how logical it is.

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we have green CIA operatives who aren't quite up to snuff in their intelligence-cooking skills or are still a little clumsy in their efforts to spy on American citizens? Or the ones that are really good at it? That's all the novice vs. experience shit that matters here.

Obama is thinking abut protecting the killers of over a million innocent civilians. Obama is thinking about covering for the people who killed over 4500 Americans. His is thinking about letting slide torturers, people who shamed and disgraced us in front of the world. He's thinking about covering for the people who outed a CIA agent. He's also going back on his campaign promise (but he's proven to be pretty damn good at that).

Regardless, he has no right not to investigate.

Calm down. No one knows what will be done yet, and your knee-jerk reaction doesn't help you or anyone else.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8078939&mesg_id=8078939

own concerns, thank you.

We've gone through 8 years of absolute misery because Clinton decided to 'move forward' (code words for aiding and abetting after the fact as far as I'm concerned).

And you have a nice one yourself.

just as much of a right to an opinion as you do. Sorry if that's so disagreeable to you.

Sheesh.

how will this Obama administration handle it?

he has washed his hands of holding the Torture Zars to account.

Do you honestly believe the CIA went off on their own and started torturing prisoners one day because it got their rocks off? They did it because the bush gang wanted it. The bush and dick have admitted as much on TV interviews.

You have to cut off the head of a snake to keep it from biting you.

Without their cooperation, President Obama cannot do it. Obama's job is to run the country as it is now. He is not a prosecutor.

Tell it to someone too stupid to know better.

:shrug:

She was made aware (attended a secret briefing) of Bush's plans, and offered no objections.
Pelosi and other high ranking Democrats will obstruct any real investigation.

You got it, Prescott Bush, among others. This from a radio interview with Russ Baker, author of "Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces that Put it in the White House, and what Their Influence Means for America" (Bloomsbury Press, 2008).

The CIA and the rest of the spy apparatus (16 agencies and that probably means 32) have to go.

subverting the Constitution.

The things they don't teach you in school.

NYTimes story is the same as: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3684995

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8081884

I'm wondering what happened to the guy I voted for. He's got to be around here somewhere.

in and does something. Instead of reading opinion pieces with no evidence

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:eyes:

are you so used to being against the current administration that you're ready to toss our guy under the bus before he even gets sworn in? or do you constantly have to bitch about something?

banky will make it allll better;