Irony or deep symbolism? Brennan sworn in on original draft of Constitution sans the Bill of Rights

By Rob Janicki

In what can only be seen as another Obama administration screw up, newly minted CIA Director, John Brennan was sworn into office with his hand on a George Washington original copy of the United States Constitution.  How marvelous!  How patriotic!  How dumb to select a copy of the Constitution, which was prepared years before the Bill of Rights was added!  Perhaps a little too much of Vice President Biden rubbed off on Brennan as Biden administered the oath of office to him.

This is just too rich to edit down, so I am presenting this Yahoo news piece in its entirety.

Oh, dear. This is probably not the symbolism the White House wanted.

Hours after CIA Director John Brennan took the oath of office—behind closed doors, far away from the press, perhaps befitting his status as America's top spy—the White House took pains to emphasize the symbolism of the ceremony.

“There's one piece of this that I wanted to note for you,” spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at their daily briefing. “Director Brennan was sworn in with his hand on an original draft of the Constitution that had George Washington's personal handwriting and annotations on it, dating from 1787.”

Earnest said Brennan had asked for a document from the National Archives that would demonstrate the U.S. is a nation of laws.

"Director Brennan told the president that he made the request to the archives because he wanted to reaffirm his commitment to the rule of law as he took the oath of office as director of the CIA,” Earnest said.

The Constitution itself went into effect in 1789. But troublemaking blogger Marcy Wheeler points out that what was missing from the Constitution in 1787 is also quite symbolic: The Bill of Rights, which did not officially go into effect until December 1791 after ratification by states. (Caution: Marcy's post has some strong language.)

That means: No freedom of speech and of the press, no right to bear arms, no Fourth Amendment ban on “unreasonable searches and seizures,” and no right to a jury trial.
How ... symbolic?  Yahoo

Hey, at least it wasn't a copy of Quran!