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Exceptional news: John Brennan won't be CIA Director or DNI

Obama's top intelligence adviser removes himself from consideration for a top post, citing the "firestorm in liberal blogs" over his support for Bush's detention and interrogation policies.
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  • Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:42 PM

    This is amazing

    I almost feel like we live in a democracy. Bear with me as I try to work my way through this:

    (commence internal monologue) So, it comes out that a president-elect wants to make a decision deeply offensive to the people that elected him, those people speak out against it, and the will of the people (one way or the other) is responded to? What is this strange sequence of events?

    *head explodes*

    ps - congrats to Glenn and the other rabble-rousers (I think that includes us in the comments section). you/we made a difference.

    —CronenBurgerMeister Read CronenBurgerMeister's other letters

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