Obama Silent Amid Conflicting Advice

[mon_lapin]

Top Two Officials In U.S. Intelligence Expect to Lose Jobs

Comments

[schmiss]

CHUCKIE HAGEL!!!

hmm I would expect them to keep these guys on for a while though, to keep the transition smooth.

[madame_medusa]

in before drama

[mon_lapin]

How is this going to make drama?!

[madame_medusa]

so dramatic

[mon_lapin]

only if it actually happens,it's still just speculation at this point

[mizanthropicone]

Why wouldn't the Director of National Intelligence or the CIA I like "enhanced" interrogation & telephone surveillance? Life would become 1,000x easier if you could torture people & just listen to their phone calls.

[allhatnocattle]

"enhanced" is a pretty way of saying "watered down".
You can't half-ass your way to torture and spying.

[mizanthropicone]

... enhanced is the exact opposite of watered down

I'm not saying I agree with them, I'm just saying I understand why the Directors would like them.

[allhatnocattle]

"enhanced" is watered down version of their vision.
Gitmo isn't a concentration camp, but if they round up all the h8rs (Al Qaida, insurgents, people with an unfortunate last name), it's an undivided attention camp, which is a rose by another name.

[winniechili]

Man, it's gonna be this way every day for two months, isn't it? Journalists pouncing on every little piece of gossip, prompting either a denial/confirmation/no-comment from the Obama camp. *face palm*

Actually this isn't completely gossip

[mon_lapin]

Obama did vote against confirming Hayden as director so it's not out of the question he would want to appoint someone else.