Posted by Orin Kerr:
"Intelligence Policy to Stay Largely Intact":
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_11_09-2008_11_15.shtml#1226435400
Siobhan Gorman of the [1]Wall Street Journal reports:
President-elect Barack Obama is unlikely to radically overhaul
controversial Bush administration intelligence policies, advisers
say, an approach that is almost certain to create tension within
the Democratic Party.
Civil-liberties groups were among those outraged that the White
House sanctioned the use of harsh intelligence techniques -- which
some consider torture -- by the Central Intelligence Agency, and
expanded domestic spy powers. These groups are demanding quick
action to reverse these policies.
Mr. Obama is being advised largely by a group of intelligence
professionals, including some who have supported Republicans, and
centrist former officials in the Clinton administration. They say
he is likely to fill key intelligence posts with pragmatists.
"He's going to take a very centrist approach to these issues,"
said Roger Cressey, a former counterterrorism official in the
Clinton and Bush administrations. "Whenever an administration
swings too far on the spectrum left or right, we end up getting
ourselves in big trouble."
As I noted yesterday in [2]yesterday's thread on Gitmo, the devil is
in the details. But this sounds promising to me. Thanks to commenter
wyswyg for the link.
References
1. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122636726473415991.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
2. http://volokh.com/posts/1226332377.shtml
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