Obama's CIA Problem

It seems in choosing a new director for the CIA President-elect Obama is having a problem, a problem largely caused by his left-wing base.



In making his decision he wants to choose someone who is against and was not involved with the use of "torture" and has already to turn away his first choice, John Brennan for this reason. This reasoning is extremely faulty in my opinion. The CIA needs an experienced person at the helm in these trying times, not someone who needs on the job training, but agrees on a rather undefined issue to begin with.

Hopefully, Obama will be able to realize the gravity of the threat that terrorism poses and make rational choices to pertaining to who he wants to run the CIA, and how he wants to go about enacting policy. I would hope he will have the leadership skills and not be allow the far left to shape his policies. He hasn't so far. Let's hope he continues in this fashion.