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Change?

They told me that if I voted for John McCain we would have four more years of what candidate Obama decried, in a March 2 2008, interview with the Washington Post, as ?the politicization of intelligence in [the Bush] administration.?

They were right.

According to the New Republic last March, Obama

the candidate is throwing his weight behind the idea that the intelligence community (IC) should be an independent assessor of empirically-verifiable facts; that intelligence assessment is a non-ideological exercise in finding out what's true and what's not.

By contrast, Obama the president-elect has thrown his weight behind a CIA director whose only experience is in partisan Democratic politics.

On the other hand, Panetta does at least have more national security experience than ... Barack Obama: ?a two-year stint in the mid-1960s as a U.S. Army lieutenant.?

Full post as published by Discriminations on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).