alan.com - 1/5/2009
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05panetta_190 Leon Panetta served as Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton and was a California congressman. Obama wants someone with no connection to recent CIA controversies like its detention and interrogation programs following September 11. That means a relative CIA outsider like Panetta rather ...
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/5/2009
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thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com —
Leon Panetta has a reputation in Washington as
a competent manager with strong background in budget issues,
but has little hands-on intelligence experience.
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Panetta to Be Named C.I.A. Director
latimes.com - 1/6/2009
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latimes.com —
Reporting from Washington -- President-elect Barack Obama has
selected Leon E. Panetta, a former California congressman with
little experience on intelligence matters, to serve as the next director of the CIA, according to Democratic officials ...
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Leon Panetta is Obama's pick for CIA director - Los ...
washingtonmonthly.com - 1/5/2009
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washingtonmonthly.com —
A ccording to the latest polls, two-thirds of
the American public believes that torturing suspected terrorists to
gain important information is justified in some circumstances. How did we transform from champions of human dignity and individual rights ...
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No Torture. No Exceptions. - Leon E. Panetta
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Clintonista Leon Panetta To Be Named CIA Director
Pirate's Cove —
... In other words, Barry is looking for a kindler, gentler CIA Director. Barf. Back to the days of treating terrorists and enemies of America with fuzzy-furry gloves. And if Alan Colmes, ...
Leon Panetta, Clintonista Incarnate, To Be Obama’s CIA Pick
Stop The ACLU —
... to lead the C.I.A., an agency that has been unwelcoming to previous directors perceived as outsiders, such as Stansfield M. Turner and John M. Deutch. But his selection points up the difficulty Mr. Obama had in finding a C.I.A. director with no connection to controversial counterterrorism programs of the Bush era. In other words, Barry is looking for a kindler, gentler CIA Director. Barf. Back to the days of treating terrorists and enemies of America with fuzzy-furry gloves. And if Alan Colmes , ...
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Sources: Panetta is pick for CIA —
CNN Political Ticker 1/5/2009
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 ...
Hamilton praises Panetta —
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From NBC's Abby Livingston Washington veteran Rep. Lee Hamilton said that his former Iraq Study Group colleague, Leon Panetta , will be a "superb" leader of the Central Intelligence Agency. Hamilton, a Democrat, spent 34 years in ...
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