Torture (D)

By Patrick Appel
Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D) is calling for Obama to "keep the country's current national intelligence director and CIA chief in place" and says that "some parts of the CIA's controversial alternative interrogation program should be allowed to continue." Greenwald responds:

...as I've been arguing for several weeks, it is unrealistic in the extreme to think that these Bush policies are going to magically vanish without a major fight now simply because Democrats are in control.  There are many factions in Washington working hard to ensure that these policies remain largely in place, and many of those factions are found at the highest levels of the Democratic Congressional leadership.