Bush loyalists trying to hinder Obama's agenda?

By GottaLaff

We've touched on this before, but now we've got an entire article-- with examples and everything!-- to draw from:

Some liberals are beginning to suspect Bush loyalists in career government positions are doing their best to try to deflate and hinder President Obama's agenda.

When the New York Times published a story on a former Guantanamo detainee who allegedly joined Al Qaeda in Yemen after his release, the timing struck Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein as "suspicious." The paper published its report just one day after President Obama ordered the prison closed. [...]

Thursday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) wrote Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, asking him to "immediately review the circumstances behind the conversion of these positions and the hiring of any former Bush administration appointees as career or temporary officials within the Office of Detainee Affairs."

"Allegations of improper 'burrowing' of political appointees to career positions are very troubling to me," wrote Sen. Feinstein. "This is especially disconcerting within the Office of Detainee Affairs due to the nature of the policy recommendations that office provides regarding Guantanamo." [...]

Stein is not the only media figure openly wondering whether Bush loyalists still in government would attempt to "send a signal," "undermine" or even "sabotage" President Obama.
When the Los Angeles Times reported that President Obama had preserved the use of renditions -- the secret capture, transportation and detention of suspected terrorists to foreign prisons in countries that cooperate with the U.S. -- for the CIA's anti-terror toolbox, many liberals were outraged.

However, some charged that the paper was "punked" by former CIA officials. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow wondered aloud if "Bush loyalists" who remain in government are trying to "undermine" President Obama.

Maddow's guest, Scott Horton, a contributing editor with Harpers magazine, agreed with her line of questioning, and even went so far as to say, "I think we may see sabotage as well."

Every trick in the book.