Top Democrat to Obama: Keep Bush’s Intel Chiefs

Keep Hayden, Bush over time got rid of the deadweight like George Tenet, Rumsfeld, General Abizaid, General Casey, and General Sanchez and replaced them with some of the nations best and brightest like General Petraeus, General Odierno, and SoD Gates.
It took years for Bush to find the best and brightest for fighting modern wars and keeping the nation safe, they have done a good job in their current positions and they should stay where they are.

Steve,
You mean the same “moves against our privacy” that Obama “promised” to filibuster when it came up in the senate and then voted for it!!!

could I have my Mea Culpa in advance please…but all this guy needs is a monocle and he could go on HOGAN HERO’S,,,,saw him on Charlie Rose ….has got the mannerism’s down pat…..

I hope the Senate Dems can see beyond their noses with Obama’s decisions.

So where are all the usual liberal bloggers out here to rant and rave about how anyone associated with the Bush administration is just a worst possible person on the planet. Especially anyone even remotely connect to the intel community!
Come On now boys & girls….looks like your PAL is figuring it out despite your rantings & Michael Moore Conspiracy Theories!
Keep The Country Safe !!!

“You mean the same “moves against our privacy” that Obama “promised” to filibuster when it came up in the senate and then voted for it!”
I’d self-identify as a liberal and I respect Obama for that vote. He’s not into worthless gestures, he’ll hold his nose and vote for a compromise when it is the best he can get. Better to settle for a compromise than get nothing but a reputation as a maverick – who never gets anything done.

It’s sweet to see democrats admitting Bush was right.

OMG, Obama is Bush Lite!

jhw539,
I’m not exactly sure he would have been labeled a “maverick” for voting against it…he would have voted with the 28 other democrats that also voted against it. That’s not “Mavericky”
The point being he vowed to the left wing to filibuster and then went back on his pledge.
It is a good idea to retain these two heads, we have been kept safe because of there, and the presidents actions, no matter how much you disagree with them, they have worked. and I sure don’t feel like my rights have been violated any I challenge someone to post a personal experience they had(not a “I’m sure they listened to me when I called my Grandmother”) but an actual personal experience they had where there rights were violated by the NSA Surveillance program

Replace them and hire them for consultants during the six month transition. During that time maybe the replacements will be able to present criminal charges against Hayden.

Dude, Where’s My Change?
Your “CHANGE” found out what the REAL WORLD is all about. Strange what happens after all those years of doing nothing but campaigning. Now you ACTUALLY have to govern, Easy to say – Not quite so easy to DO !

Obama = Change
Change of address.
Government stays the same. Corrupt and wasteful.

A.E.,
So who would you put in charge of gathering intel to keep us all safe?
For some reason you liberals are scared to death of the concept that the Bush Administration kept us ALL…you & me & everyone else in this country safe!
All you people can do is whine and rant about “WMDs” and “violating my rights & freedoms”. You don’t have to agree with Bush’s policies, but grow up enough to admit the simple truth that his adminstration kept the USA safe at a time when we all thought for sure there be more attacks.

Liberals and complaints about surveillance….worked out well for “Blago” now didn’t it??
Oh, let me guess…would you rather not knowing he was selling Obama’s not so warm Senate seat to the highest bidder?
The “spy” game has been going on since the beginning of time people. Your jumping up on some moral pedestal now is not going to change it, or the fact that Obama is going to do eactly what every single leader in the history of man has done before him.
Get off the drugs libbies….come back to the REAL WORLD!!!

Did Bush keep us safe, or are terrorist attacks an anomaly? I could just as easily claim that Bill Clinton kept us safe after the 1993 WTC attack and that Bush let us down in 2001, but constant conjunction is not the same as cause and effect. Germany and Italy solved their terrorist problems in the 1970′s without turning into police states. As to what freedoms we have lost under Bush, the creation of the No Fly List is being used to prevent opponents of the president’s policies from traveling outside the country, in 2004 anti-Bush protesters were arrested by Mike Bloomberg’s police so the rest of the nation would not see how New Yorkers, who bore the brunt of the 9/11 attacks, felt about him, and the State of Virginia manual on terrorism lists among many groups propery rights advocates or anyone who questions the government’s authority. Why should I fear both my government and terrorists because America’s corporate world wants unlimited control of our economy and the world’s oil and because of the power of the Israel-firsters?

Did you know that Obama once wore a Che Guevarra T-Shirt to a Harvard Pep-Rally?

Of course, if 9/11 was, in fact, an inside job, that might explain why there haven’t been any repeats–among other things, too many non-conspirators within the intel agencies are now watching. Just replacing the top guys may not work either. JFK replaced Allen Dulles with McCone, but Angleton, Meyer, Hunt, Sturgis, Crowley et al. were still in-place and “operational.”

As for me I have seen enough from “president-Pretend Obama”!
What happened to that guy that “wasn’t going to let special-interest run his administration????
Mr. president-Pretend Obama is a “great pretender” and the tool of special interest as Mr. Bush was.
Mr. Obama will not be getting my vote again in 2012
For the reference, I am a registered Independent.
Mickey Mose for President!
Anything is better than these CLOWNS getting in the WH these days…. pfffft!

i think it’s important for there to be a smooth transition and if that means keeping some of Bush’s appointments temporarily that should be understandable. but regardless, torture must stop on day one and the facility in Guantanamo Bay must be closed soon thereafter. i think the President-Elect will keep those promises once he is sworn in.

President-pretend Obama,
You’re so “Wet-Behind-The-Ear” it isn’t even funny.
Hope you, Michelle & the kids aren’t getting too, too comfortable living in the White House on the vote of the “average man”!
In 2012 hope to see you packing for Chicago again Mr President! :-) What a joke!!!
But you talk a great game!
Sure you weren’t a Baptist preacher from the south Mr. Obama???!

Patricio—did you know Che Guevara is a hero to the third-world and is associated with anti-colonialism, anti-racism? Che is even popular in academics (i know, i know this is political and bashing). IF Obama wore a Che shirt, what’s the big deal?—that he opposes global domination? that he cares for the poor? that he prefers justice over tyranny?

John Jones—wow, voting since 1996. if you did vote for Obama, why such a visceral hatred toward him now?

geez, can he just get sworn in. there is so much hate for Obama! from conspiracy to conspiracy with hate (and often racism) to fuel it along. absolutely unbelievable. and quite sad.

Where is all this “CHANGE” I keep hearing about?

“How does such inexcusable conduct in the lead up to 9/11 translate to giving the very same officials vast illegal powers? That is absurd!”
Indeed. And it will be a neat trick for Obama to investigate Bush/Cheney for “war crimes” if he keeps domestic spymaster/torture aficianado Hayden as DCI, won’t it?

Our intellegence people have been unable or unwilling to proclaim that the war on terror is a holy war. Our enemy is using the word of God in the Qur’an to recruit people to fight against people who do not want God in our government decisions,(USA). With all our technology we are unable to defeat lowly warriors willing to die for the cause of God.
The solution is simple if we want God in our decision-making. Lift up the word of God in the Qur’an that says to follow the whole Bible and realize Jesus said the same thing, live by every word of God. Correction is needed on all sides and that is good. It is the indecency and immorality of our USA youth and adults that fuels the war against us. We are fighting against God and God is fighting against us.
One God has one message: follow His word and be blessed with rain in due season and peace in the land. Disobey and be cursed with terror, destruction, loss of power etc. (Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28) Destructions are promised UNTIL we turn to obey God’s word in the holy books that we have, or we are destroyed from off the earth, whichever comes first.
We need to embrace the wisdom of God to have peace and true prosperity and there is no evidence that Barack Obama, Robert Gates, President Bush or Michael Hayden are willing to use God’s word for our defense.