President-elect's Queries to Briefers

Consortium News by Ray McGovern | Nov. 7, 2008 (Opinion)

He asked what I would tell President-elect Barack Obama if I were Mike Morell, the chief CIA analyst assigned to brief Obama daily.

What fun, I thought. On more sober reflection, it seemed more useful to prepare questions of the kind President-elect Obama might wish to ask Morell, since the briefings are supposed to be a two-way street.

Obama is no shrinking violet. Just the same, it may be useful to warn him not to succumb to the ... Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Nov. 7, 2008

Although hypothetical, McGovern as a former insider on such goings on presents fact oriented insights by way of his suggested questions for Obama to task his CIA briefers with. I found it interesting reading, and hopefully my friend Barack will find it interesting also. Some good bottom-up democracy.

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