Links for November 20th

Links from my del.icio.us account for November 20th:

• Abdullah II warns Olmert, Barak: Gaza action could snowball into Jordanian instability - Haaretz - Israel News - Hamas threatening Jordanian stability?


• John O. Brennan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Entry on John Brennan, likely director of CIA for Obama, and AUC graduate.


• The rise and fall of Rachida Dati | World news | The Guardian - Profile of French Justice Minister Rachida Dati, who's in hot waters these days.


• Palestinians advertise peace plan in Israeli press - Yahoo! News - "JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The PLO took the unprecedented step of placing advertisements in Israeli newspapers on Thursday to promote a six-year-old Arab peace plan for the region."


• Polls show Israel's Likud party leading - Yahoo! News - "A poll published in the Haaretz daily on Thursday showed Likud garnering 34 seats in the 120-seat parliament, up from its current 12, followed by Kadima with 28. Kadima, the ruling party, currently has 29 seats. The poll forecast the once-dominant Labor, headed by Defense Minister Ehud Barak, winning just 10 seats. The poll, conducted by the Dialog agency, surveyed 488 people and had a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points."

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Brennan was a supporter of Rendition (there's a famous clip of him in 2005 on the Newshour - I saw it on Democracy Now's Nov 17 program - available on the web through link below). He thinks its a successful policy for extracting information.

Also watch for Jimi Miscik (also heading Barack's transition team). She was responsible for politicizing intell in the lead-up to Iraq

Change you can believe in? Not so much....

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/17/obama_taps_ex_cia_officials_tied