The solution: more passports.

To track the Obamarama in Pakghanistan in particular, click here.

Focused on CIA and other legal aspects:

Rendition — Obama says OK.

People accused of helping terrorists — try them under martial law, not civilian. Okay by BHO apparently …

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The Obama administration failed — miserably — the first test of its commitment to ditching the extravagant legal claims used by the Bush administration to try to impose blanket secrecy on anti-terrorism policies and avoid accountability for serial abuses of the law.

On Monday, a Justice Department lawyer dispatched by the new attorney general, Eric Holder, appeared before a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco.

The case before them involves serious allegations of torture by five victims of President Bush’s extraordinary rendition program. The five were seized and transported to American facilities abroad or to countries known for torturing prisoners.

Incredibly, the federal lawyer advanced the same expansive state-secrets argument that was pressed by Mr. Bush’s lawyers to get a trial court to dismiss the case without any evidence being presented. It was as if last month’s inauguration had never occurred.

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Non-Change We Don’t Need

Hayden, the NSA demigod appointed by Cheney to run the CIA, is out.

Leon Panetta, a nice guy, chief of staff under Clinton and congressman before that — but with no intel experience — is the CIA nominee.

But Feinstein, head of the Senate Intel committee, is already on the wires with negative reactions to the notion.

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More strange fruit, in any case, of the election of a man who ran on big change.