{"id":1757,"date":"2008-11-11T11:06:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T15:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2008-11-11T11:06:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T15:06:20","slug":"watch-obama-on-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/11\/11\/watch-obama-on-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Obama on Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122636726473415991.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">today&#8217;s WSJ<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is likely just an opening salvo from one (of many sides) in a war over the future of our government, but this should serve as a wake-up call to those Obama supporters who are willing to just sit back and &#8220;trust him&#8221; on most everything.\u00c2\u00a0 Who&#8217;s driving this particular story?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is to say, largely those that have a vested interest in the status quo, and a future interest in the contractors that support it.\u00c2\u00a0 Add them together with Obama&#8217;s demonstrated cautious nature, and the inevitable bias towards keeping power that has already accured to the office, and we&#8217;ve got a problem.\u00c2\u00a0 He may yet surprise and please.\u00c2\u00a0 But it&#8217;s something to watch carefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s WSJ: 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. This is likely just an opening salvo from one (of many sides) in a war over the future of our government, but this should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-policy","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}