After President Obama's election, Anderson was soon critical of many of his policy positions and staff selections. He opposed Susan Rice, whom Obama appointed as United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Anderson faults Ms. Rice for "doing nothing" to stop the 1994 genocide in Rwanda as a staff member of the National Security Council. Anderson was critical of the appointment by Obama of John Brennan as his counter-terrorism adviser because Brennan, as a member of the George W. Bush administration, had publicly supported wiretapping, "enhanced interrogation" and the "rendition" of war-on-terror suspects to offshore prisons beyond the reach of American law. Anderson also pointed to what he described as Obama's change of position after he received the Democratic presidential nomination on the question of immunity for telecom companies that cooperated with the Bush Administration's wiretapping program.