Obama's Choice

[David Morris]

http://www.esquire.com/_mobile/blogs/politics/obama-cia-john-brennan-031414

*It is not too much of an exaggeration to say that*, in one very important
way, the president has lost control of his own government. The current
constitutional crisis between the CIA and the Senate committee tasked with
investigating its policies regarding torture during the previous
administration has only one real solution that is consonant with the rule
of law. Either CIA director John Brennan gets to the bottom of what his
people were doing and publicly fires everyone involved, or John Brennan
becomes the ex-director of the CIA. By the Constitution, this isn't even a
hard call. The Senate has every legal right to investigate what was done in
the name of the American people during the previous decade. It has every
legal right to every scrap of information relating to its investigation,
and the CIA has an affirmative legal obligation to cooperate. Period. The
only way this is not true is if we come to accept the intelligence
apparatus as an extra-legal, formal fourth branch of the government.
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