They told me that if I voted for John McCain we would have four more years of what candidate Obama decried, in a March 2 2008, interview with the Washington Post, as “the politicization of intelligence in [the Bush] administration.”
According to the New Republic last March, Obama
the candidate is throwing his weight behind the idea that the intelligence community (IC) should be an independent assessor of empirically-verifiable facts; that intelligence assessment is a non-ideological exercise in finding out what’s true and what’s not.
By contrast, Obama the president-elect has thrown his weight behind a CIA director whose only experience is in partisan Democratic politics.
On the other hand, Panetta does at least have more national security experience than … Barack Obama: “a two-year stint in the mid-1960s as a U.S. Army lieutenant.”
