I am watching Democracy Now with Amy Goodman who is interviewing Melvin Goodman, author of "A Failure of Intelligence" and former CIA and State Department analyst. He stated that President Elect Obama is bringing back Jami Miscik who wrote the infamous speech given by Colin Powell at the UN which was the reasons (lies) given to start the Iraq War and John Brennan who worked with George Tenet at the CIA and who is possibly going to be Barack Obama's new CIA Director. He's serving as Obama's top adviser on intelligence and head of his intelligence transition team and it was he who convinced Barack Obama to vote for the current FISA Bill which had his supporters at mybarackobama.com in an uproar. I joined that group at that time myself.
Also on the show was Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights who talked about the closing of Guantanamo which President Elect Obama has promised as recently as last night on 60 Minutes. Michale Ratner said the 255 prisoners currently being held are in what is known as a preventative detention scheme and Obama plans to continue this scheme. The prisoners will have no legal rights and be brought before National Security Courts just for being perceived as being dangerous. Please, President Elect Obama, do not make any of the mistakes of the Bush doctrine and please do not hire these Bushies as part of your new administration.
See Frontline's Darkside article about him here.
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