From The New York Times:WASHINGTON — For two years on the presidential campaign trail, Barack Obama rallied crowds with strongly worded critiques of the Bush administration’s most controversial counterterrorism programs, from hiding terrorism suspects in secret Central Intelligence Agency jails to questioning them with methods he denounced as torture.
Now Mr. Obama must take charge of the C.I.A., in what is already proving to be one of the more treacherous patches of his transition to the White House.
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My Comment: Form the outside looking in, it appears that the new administration wants to fight Al Qaeda with rules that were used to fight past wars. I am not comfortable that this is the right policy, especially with an enemy like Al Qaeda whose mindset is to fight a war on a level that has never been done before.