Legal Commentary

Obama Advisor Is CEO Of Passport Breach Contractor

By Big Tent Democrat

By Big Tent Democrat

Speaking for me only

I have BREAKING NEWS for Keith Olbermann and the Obama blogs:

The CEO of a company whose employee is accused of improperly looking at the passport files of presidential candidates is a consultant to the Barack Obama campaign, a source said Saturday. John O. Brennan, president and CEO of the Analysis Corp., advises the Illinois Democrat on foreign policy and intelligence issues, the source said.

Bwahahahahaha!! What will Punchline KO Olbermann say? What will Howard Fineman say? How about David Shuster? Oh nothing of course. You think Obama still wants a Congressional investigation? Oh by the way, has anyone asked Obama about this:

In a new interview with National Journal magazine, an intelligence adviser to Barack Obama's presidential campaign broke with his candidate’s position opposing retroactive legal protection for telecommunications companies being sued for cooperating with a dubious U.S. government domestic surveillance program.

"I do believe strongly that [telecoms] should be granted that immunity," former CIA official John Brennan told National Journal reporter Shane Harris in the interview. "They were told to [cooperate] by the appropriate authorities that were operating in a legal context."

Like a lot of Obama advisors and endorsers (see Jay Rockefeller and Jim Cooper for two especially egregious endorsers of Obama) - John O Brennan sounds like the type of person we really do not want back controlling the power levers of government.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 23, 2008 (boomark / email).