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Bad News from Obama Camp

By Ed Brayton

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I've already posted what looked like good news about Obama's future plans on various constitutional issues; now here's some bad news, via Glenn Greenwald:

It's just a fact that there are all sorts of people close to Obama who have enabled those Bush policies and who are mobilizing now and attempting to ensure that nothing meaningful occurs in these areas. It simply is noteworthy of comment and cause for concern -- though far from conclusive about what Obama will do -- that Obama's transition chief for intelligence policy, John Brennan, was an ardent supporter of torture and one of the most emphatic advocates of FISA expansions and telecom immunity. It would be foolish in the extreme to ignore that and to just adopt the attitude that we should all wait quietly with our hands politely folded for the new President to unveil his decisions before deciding that we should speak up or do anything.

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 18, 2008 (boomark / email).