Obama inheriting broad covert ops policies
November 10, 2008, by PAMELA HESS
What was all this talk about Bush unjustly expanding the powers of the presidency?
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.
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