WASHINGTON — 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.
Obama already has telegraphed his willingness to exercise those powers if he deems them necessary.
Obama said in an August speech that he would target high-value terrorists in Pakistan without that government's permission.
"Rescinding blanket orders would limit Obama's flexibility and proscribe the ability of U.S. intelligence and military forces to capture or kill wanted terrorists..."[right. These policies, headlined as 'Nazi like' again and again when under Bush's authority are now magically good things if they provide Obama the necessary 'flexibility' and avoid 'proscribing' the ability of US intelligence. ufb. And no one in the press will call them on their shameless hypocrisy.]
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