Ray McGovern: Petraeus Will Expand Pro-War Agenda - Democracy NOW!

[The Northerner]

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Democracy NOW! DN! - President Obama is expected to announce a major shuffling of his national security team today. Under his plan, CIA Director Leon Panetta will move to the Pentagon to replace the retiring Robert Gates. Gen. David Petraeus will become the new head of the CIA. U.S. Marine General John Allen will be nominated to become the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, a position currently held by Petraeus. And Ryan Crocker will be nominated to be U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan. Leon Panetta has headed the CIA for the past two years and has led a massive escalation of the use of unarmed drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Many analysts say the nomination of David Petraeus to head the CIA will further increase the militarization of the spy agency. We speak with Ray McGovern, former senior CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. Published with written permission from democracynow.org. http://www.democracynow.org Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license. Democracy NOW!, an independent non-profit user funded news media, recognized and broadcast world wide.

[neoralme]

1. Petraeus will have Death Camps from here to Turkey and pretend

they don't exist. And you know who they'll be okay-ed by.

[Metta]

2. Greatly disappointing moves.

From this president. The military industry coalesces further. This is all incredibly short sighted, karmically.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Bush's pet general...

We're screwn.