Bush aides could get a do-over in Trump administration

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 Bush aides could get a do-over in Trump administration

But some fear Trump's choice of Bush veterans could revive controversial practices like waterboarding.

By Nahal Toosi

11/15/16 01:49 PM EST

Vice President-elect Mike Pence considers Dick Cheney his role model for the No. 2 job. President-elect Donald Trump has suggested trying U.S. citizens at Guantanamo Bay. And several people being floated as top national security advisers to Trump are familiar figures from the mid-2000s.

Years after George W. Bush and Cheney left office with stunningly low approval ratings, some of their foreign policy aides may get a shot at a do-over of their legacy. And this time, some fear, the president they answer to for the next four years may want to function with fewer restraints — reviving debates over everything from waterboarding to the United Nations.

"An ascendant role for, or another crack at, reestablishing the neoconservative, torture-advocating/accommodating world view is worrisome and dangerous," a senior government official with experience in both the Bush and Obama administrations told POLITICO in an email. "God help us."

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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/george-w-bush-aides-trump-administration-231351

[Frank Cannon]

No better way to drain a swamp than to get the swamp to help you.

[GAJohnnie]

Actually the Bushies went looking to take over and were show the door by Team Trump.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/306060-former-gop-official-warns-republicans-to-stay-away-from-trump

Eliot Cohen, a former State Department official under President George W. Bush, is advising other Republican foreign policy experts to “stay away” from Donald Trump’s transition team just days after he encouraged them to help the president-elect.