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Sources: Panetta is pick for CIA

 

Published 1/5/2009 by CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney at CNN Political Ticker

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Leon Panetta, chief of staff in Bill Clinton's White House, will be President-elect Barack Obama's choice to head the CIA, two Democratic officials told CNN Monday. The same officials said that retired Adm. Dennis Blair, who formerly headed the Navy's Pacific Command, will be tapped as director of national intelligence.        [...] (link)

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