Did Obama Aid Admiral Dennis Blair Lie to Congress? Allan Nairn speaks to Democracy Now 1/9/09

President-Elect Barack Obama is expected to name his intelligence team today, Leon Panetta for the CIA, John Brennan as a key White House adviser, and Admiral Dennis Blair as director of National Intelligence. Is this change? John Brennan was dropped as a candidate for CIA due to accusations of support for torture and extraordinary rendition.

We speak to Allan Nairn,award-winning journalist who has reported from Indonesia for years. In 1999 he broke the story on Dennis Blair's secret meeting with Indonesian generals to affirm U.S. support for their violent crackdown on East Timorese.

For read/listen/watch visit democracynow.org.

For more go to AllanNairn.com and visit the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) at http://etan.org

For Democracy Now's coverage of East Timor, go to http://www.democracynow.org/features/east_timor.

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[mikalay]

Uh-Oh!!!I ain't supporting OBAMA NO MOREEEEEEE!!!!!!!DAS ITTTTTTT...

[007agentgrace]

OMG! More of the same! OMG! This is horrible! OMG! OMG!

[netttels]

RON PAUL 2012

[valeriemci1]

Was obama elected to trick people into thinking how liberal the usa has become? Or is it a smoke screen to cover that obama is george bush in darker skin? The same war is going on and on and on...obama is backing the same kinds of snakes that we saw previously. It is sickening rerun of evil. Regarding this video. Notice how obama looks away from the camera when he praises the people he has appointed. Is this body language indicating he knows he is lying about how great these folks are?

[starkweather444]

Even thought this story was almost 2 years ago, it was pretty clear back then what a war mongering President Obama would turn out to be. Not really surprised at how he turned out.

[EncompassedRunner]

Wow, I can't believe I missed this video, just an awesome interview on a seriously undercovered story -- fascinating

[lelyn1234]

America, you just got served.