Intelligence replacements

Speculation about whether Pres.-elect Obama needs to send bipartisan messages by retaining certain Bush administration appointees -- or make a clean break -- while interesting, is not something I feel equipped to speculate on. He should keep the people he thinks are doing a good job and with whom he feels comfortable and get rid of those he doesn't and isn't.

But I will say this, keeping Tenet on in 2001 made us no less vulnerable. So if McConnell and Hayden aren't on the same page with Obama regarding the CIA's use of torture and NSA's use of domestic wiretaps then he should be given the boot. If that's seen as "politicizing" the offices (a concern rarely mentioned during the Clinton/Bush transition), then so be it.