Obama Lies

Barack Obama News

• Officials: Obama taps Panetta, Blair for spy jobs (AP via Yahoo! News)
  President-elect Barack Obama's decision to fill the nation's top intelligence jobs with two men short on direct experience in intelligence gathering surprised the spy community and signaled the Democrat's intention for a clean break from Bush administration policies.
• Obama Pitches Stimulus Plan (Washington Post)
  President-elect Barack Obama arrived on Capitol Hill yesterday and immediately set to work reassuring skeptical Republicans about his massive economic stimulus package -- part of a campaign that earned him praise for seeking their input but questions from those averse to hundreds of billions of...
• Obama Picks Panetta as CIA Director (Washington Post)
  President-elect Barack Obama stunned the national intelligence community by selecting Clinton White House chief of staff Leon E. Panetta, a longtime Washington insider with little intelligence experience, to serve as the next head of the CIA.
• Obama Nominates Four To Senior Justice Posts (Washington Post)
  President-elect Barack Obama selected four prominent lawyers yesterday for senior posts at the Justice Department, naming pragmatic leaders who are likely to reverse some of the more divisive policies of the Bush administration.
• Obama's 'Dear Rod' letter (Politico via Yahoo! News)
  With the Blagojevich scandal breaking around them last month, aides to Barack Obama said there had been “no contact” between Obama and embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.