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Published 1/6/2009 by Anne E. Kornblut and Joby Warrick at Wash Post In Congress
President-elect Barack Obama stunned the national intelligence community by selecting Clinton White House chief of staff Leon E. Panetta, a longtime Washington insider with little intelligence experience, to serve as the next head of the CIA.
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