Obama wasn't just rebuking the outgoing administration.
His advisers worked side by side with the outgoing administration.
She said those decisions and others by the outgoing administration would be reviewed.
He indicated that he would approach any future commitments by the outgoing administration more skeptically.
Q. Traditionally, Governor, though, when you're in the transition period you get the cooperation of the outgoing administration.
"I think they may be very much under the influence of the rhetoric of the outgoing administration," he said.
Are you making any contact with the outgoing administration? A. I think that's a little early, Frank.
Those grey areas in his dealings with the outgoing administration will make any future US proceedings against him particularly compelling.
"I also commend the outgoing administration of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa for facilitating a swift and orderly transition of power," Mr Obama said.
A recent report by the General Accounting Office in Washington accuses the outgoing administration in Iraq of handling Iraq's revenues sloppily.
His latest release, "Songs of the Bushmen," is a musical "homage" to key players in the outgoing Administration, pairing the subject of each song with an appropriate genre.
