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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (4723)	1/10/2009 7:56:51 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

The economic woes can be atrtributed to the laissez-faire attitide of the SEC/Bush Administration.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (4723)	1/10/2009 8:00:33 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Obama has said that he wants some changes in the intelligence community: clear guidelines against abusive interrogations and nonpolitical analysis of intelligence data to avoid the failures that led to the Iraq war. "We know that to be truly secure, we must adhere to our values as vigilantly as we protect our safety — with no exceptions," Obama said. 'Sound judgment' Obama said Panetta, as a top White House official, "handled intelligence daily at the very highest levels, and time and again he has demonstrated sound judgment, grace under fire and complete integrity." After a conversation with Panetta, Feinstein said she was supportive, describing him as a "man of conscience, a man of talent, and I believe he will surround himself with top-notch staff from the intelligence community." Other members of Obama's intelligence team may assuage some potential critics. Dennis Blair, a retired admiral with broad experience, was named director of national intelligence, supervising all 16 intelligence agencies, including the CIA. John Brennan, with a background in counterterrorism, will be Obama's homeland security adviser. Peter Earnest, a CIA operative for 36 years, said those appointments, along with keeping some top people in the agency, "will reassure members of the clandestine service." Panetta's experience overseeing the CIA budget, his good reputation on Capitol Hill and the fact that he has the president's ear also are pluses, Earnest said, who focused on Obama's pledge that Panetta will have "complete trust." "The agency could not ask for anything more," said Earnest, who now is executive director of the International Spy Museum in Washington. Several analysts pointed out that whether a CIA director is an insider or outsider in the secretive, insular culture of the agency, his success often depends on access to the president.