nypost.com - 1/7/2009
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Last updated: 12:51 am January 7, 2009 Posted: 12:36 am January 7, 2009 WOULD you ask your accountant to perform brain surgery on your child? That's the closest analogy I can find to the choice of Democratic Party hack Leon Panetta to head the CIA. Earth to President-elect Obama: Intelligence ...
sfgate.com - 1/7/2009
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sfgate.com —
Feinstein - the new chairwoman of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, who will oversee Panetta's confirmation hearings -
raised eyebrows when she expressed surprisingly sharp disapproval of Panetta as nominee for CIA chief on Monday. She said that "the ...
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Why Feinstein broke with Obama on Panetta
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/6/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Leon Panetta’s served in congress, served in the
military, served as Chief of Staff in the White
House; he’s served on blue ribbon commissions and worked for politicians of both parties. And Barack Obama wants him to be CIA Director. ...
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The Panetta Pick
slate.com - 1/7/2009
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Leon Panetta. Click image to expand. Leon Panetta
The puzzler of the hour: Why is Barack Obama
picking Leon Panetta , a former congressman and White House official with no intelligence experience, to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency? ...
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Why Obama picked Panetta to run the CIA. - By Fred ...
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Panetta and Obama’s unseriousness
neo-neocon —
... Ralph Peters doesn’t like the Panetta pick, not one little bit. He says that it shows that Obama does not take intelligence “seriously.” I hadn’t thought of that description when I wrote ...
Panetta Snags Key Sandy 'Socks' Berger Endorsement
JammieWearingFool —
... R. "Sandy" Berger, Lake's deputy before becoming national security adviser himself, said that Panetta "was part of the decision-making process for every single issue we were dealing with, whether this was in the Oval Office with the president or the Cabinet Room -- the Middle East, Kosovo, China. He was a part of a small group of people who advised the president how to proceed on strategy and substance." That alone is enough to disqualify him. If you need further evidence, consider this . WOULD you ask your accountant to perform brain surgery on your child? That's the ...
Sandy Burglar Says Leon’s Cool With Him … Ralph Peters Says, ‘Bullshit!’
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... from his brief exposure to Panetta on the project he did not see him as somebody who would be out to gut the CIA or rein it in. “He was not a bomb thrower. He wasn’t excessively political. He was a part of the team,” Eagleburger said. “Like everybody else, he was prepared to find some kind of middle ground.”
But let’s ask someone who is above the politics, and has an inside view of what is needed here:
NYPost:
AN AWFUL PICK
O OPTS TO POLITICIZE INTELLIGENCE
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Panetta's Arrow: CIA Delendum Est?
Winds of Change.NET —
... of qualifications. One could go farther, and point to the facts that this is the guy who helped gut the CIA's human intelligence capabilities as Clinton's Budget Director, then ensured that the CIA had less access to the President than was the case for any administration in recent times when he was Chief of Staff, and finally seemed to define "torture" as "anything a terrorist doesn't enjoy" in more recent days. Former intel officer Ralph Peters does, in "An Awful Pick." Given those indicators, it's easy to see the appointment as a signal that ...
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CIA Panetta's fees: Defense, banking
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latimesblogs.latimes.com 2/5/2009 — It's been a bumpy few days on the new Obama Administration bus, what with all the bodies throwing themselves under the shiny chassis -- Tom Daschle , Nancy Killefer and the ones yet to come from the transition team that missed the ...
Cheney Responds to Panetta
weeklystandard.com 6/15/2009 — Dick Cheney released a statement responded to CIA Director Leon Panetta's suggestion that the former vice president's criticism of Obama administration policies means Cheney is wishing for another attack.
"I hope my old friend Leon was misquoted. ...
A non-story, at least for now
powerlineblog.com 2/5/2009 — The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Leon Panetta, President Obama's nominee for CIA director, has earned more than $700,000 in speaking and consulting fees since the beginning of 2008. The Journal says that some of the payments came from ...
Transition to Power: Presidential power lunch —
CNN Political Ticker 1/7/2009
(CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama, President Bush and all of the surviving past presidents got together Wednesday for a historic meeting at the White House.
"One message that I have, and I think we all share, is that we want you to succeed. ...
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