Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying

[vienna]

Not all that unusual: the history of the office of President is rife with changes of position by officeholders once they are sworn in as President. This is true of both parties. Sometimes it is a case of deliberate deception on the part of the candidate pre-election, but in many cases, the change results from a sudden awareness of actual situations faced once one sits in the Oval Office. It is one thing to criticize the person in office while campaigning or make unknowledgeable promises based on perceptions; once faced with the facts, limitations, or aspects hidden, for one reason or another from public knowledge (or sometimes from the actual Presidents themselves), not to mention the myriad of political cosiderations, the old saw of "the best laid plans" has a harsher ring of truth. I have often tried to imagine what it must be like to be a newly elected President and get the first official status briefings from the various Cabinet members, Department chiefs, national security/military chiefs, etc. Imagim=ne the things the new President hears we have no concept of...


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