1.0 link 146419 <![CDATA[Brennan Pulls Out Of Running For CIA Chief, Chides Liberal Blogs]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/25/brennan-pulls-out-of-runn_n_146419.html WASHINGTON &mdash; John Brennan, President-elect Barack Obama's top adviser on intelligence, took his name out of the running Tuesday for any intelligence position in the new administration.

Brennan wrote in a Nov. 25 letter to Obama that he did not want to be a distraction. His potential appointment as CIA director has raised a firestorm in liberal blogs that associate him with the Bush administration's interrogation, detention and rendition policies.

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