Brennan out of running for top intel post in Obama administration

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
John Brennan, President-elect Barack Obama's top adviser on intelligence, has taken his name out of the running for any intelligence position in the new administration. In a letter Tuesday, Brennan wrote to Obama that he did not want to be a distraction. His potential appointment has raised a firestorm in liberal blogs who associate him with the Bush administration's interrogation, detention and rendition policies. "The fact that I was not involved in the decision making process for any of these controversial policies and actions has been ignored," he wrote, in a letter obtained by The Associated Press.