A couple of potentially disturbing reports today in the Wall Street Journal, one suggesting that Obama is not going to substantially rein in Bush-era intelligence activities and another reporting that Obama is leaning toward asking Bob Gates to stay on as secretary of defense.
There's tremendous pressure to report out anything that can be gleaned about the transition, so there's a tendency for every scrap of information to get blown out of proportion, making it tough to know how much credence to give any single report. Once you start piling analysis on top of thin reporting, you've got yourself a house of cards held together with conjecture and speculation.
So I'm inclined to keep my powder dry until things shake out a bit more, but watching very closely.
From Salon's Walter Shapiro:
As Valerie Jarrett, co-chair of Obama's transition team, put it with deliberate blandness on "Meet the Press" Sunday: "I think one of the real strengths of Sen. Obama's campaign and now President-elect Obama's transition is that he really does like to think this through thoroughly and not telecast what he's going to do until he's ready to make a decision."
I'm following David Kurtz's suggestion. Until someone from the Office of the President-Elect says it, it ain't worth the paper it's printed on.
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