AP:  “President Bush leaves President-elect Obama broad latitude for covert action in countries with which the United States is not at war, powers that Obama could scale back along with other Bush presidential orders now under consideration for rescinding. But he’s not likely to do that.” Well, good. And not surprising. But here’s the first of many-to-come cases of “I told you so.” President-elect Obama and his supporters spent years damning basic intelligence work simply because–those of us on the Right knew–they weren’t the ones in charge of it. Now we see we were, umm, exactly right. As I have written here before, if Bush had cured cancer, the NYT headline would be “Bush Turns Blind Eye to Heart Disease, Diabetes Victims.”

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