politico.com - 1/6/2009
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January 05, 2009 Categories: Transition Friction on Panetta Spencer Ackerman gets a statement from Dianne Feinstein's office: I was not informed about the selection of Leon Panetta to be the CIA Director. I know nothing about this, other than what I ve read, said Senator Feinstein, who will ...
firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 1/6/2009
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firstread.msnbc.msn.com —
From NBC's Andrea MitchellNBC News has learned that
Senate Democrats -- including Dianne Feinstein and Jay Rockefeller,...
who are the incoming and outgoing Intelligence chairmen -- have privately recommended a career CIA officer to head the ...
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Even more on the Panetta pick
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
corner.nationalreview.com - 1/6/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
In the very early days of the Bush
administration, Karl Rove asked a Washington policy wonk what...
personnel changes he'd recommend to newly arrived George W. The wonk said "there is one matter of life and death: he must replace Tenet at CIA and put in ...
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Panetta to CIA
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Could Panetta Switch to Commerce?
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
... of Panetta's nomination has apparently ticked off Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), the incoming chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee -- and with the commerce seat now open again -- might Panetta be tapped for that job instead? ...
It’s Calvinball season
Balloon Juice —
... but the career intel rule seems to have been invented over the past few days. Matt Y notes:
this idea that the CIA Director needs to be a career intelligence professional seems to have been pulled out of thin air. Porter Goss wasn’t a career intel guy. Neither was George Tenet. Neither was John Deutsch. Neither was James Woolsey. Nor William Webster. Nor George H.W. Bush.
And while we’re at it, shame on Ben Smith who writes of DiFi’s opposition to Panetta:
That seems ...
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Ben Smith's Blog: Neocons for Panetta
politico.com 1/6/2009 — January 06, 2009 Categories: Transition Neocons for Panetta Leon Panetta, I report today, has found some unlikely -- and perhaps unwelcome -- allies among the neoconservatives who backed the Iraq war, and clashed bitterly with the CIA in the Bush ...
Panetta, Obama, and the Senate
corner.nationalreview.com 1/6/2009 — On Panetta -- in addition to opinions in The Corner, there is the ever-so-slightly more important opinion of the new chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein:
I was not informed about the selection of Leon Panetta to be ...
Re Panetta
corner.nationalreview.com 1/6/2009 — Angelo Codevilla, author of the new book Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft, tells NRO:
Leon Panetta may not know very much about foreign affairs or defense matters. He is wholly unacquainted with the questions and quarrels ...
Panetta to CIA
swampland.blogs.time.com 1/6/2009 — This smells a bit of desperation. Leon Panetta is a terrific guy, a fine public servant--one of those people who reek of sanity and good judgment--but he doesn't have much, if any, experience in spook world. The problem was trying to find a DCI with ...
Panetta great on torture
washingtonmonthly.com 1/6/2009 — PANETTA GREAT ON TORTURE.... With Leon Panetta slated to take over the CIA, for many of us, and I include myself in this, the first question is pretty straightforward: how is he on torture? Atrios pointed to an op-ed piece...
Feinstein's Aboard For Panetta
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/7/2009 — Via AP, we see that incoming Senate intelligence chairman Dianne Feinstein is now supportive of Leon Panetta's nomination to head the CIA.
Seems that Panetta called Feinstein last night and she is "confident he'd surround himself with good ...
Holt on Panetta
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 1/6/2009 —
Rush Holt has a better record of judgment on intelligence and national security issues than does Dianne Feinstein, so naturally nobody regards his views as “serious,” but he likes Leon Panetta just fine :
“Having served in ...
Panetta on Torture
swampland.blogs.time.com 1/5/2009 — As Joe notes below , multiple news outlets are reporting that Obama has found his next CIA director: Leon Panetta, who once quit the Nixon Administration in protest over his Civil Rights policy, and later became a chief of staff to President Bill ...
Obama Picks Panetta as CIA Director —
Wash Post In Congress 1/6/2009
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.
Roland Burris Scores Key Senate Ally —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 1/6/2009
Susan Davis reports on Congress.
Roland Burris found a powerful ally in his quest to be formally recognized as the junior senator from Illinois: California Sen. Dianne Feinstein , who chairs the Senate Rules Committee, and put her support ...
Feinstein now supports Panetta to head CIA —
CNN Political Ticker 1/7/2009
Sen. Feinstein said Wednesday that she will back President-elect Obama's pick to head the CIA.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Just two days after she criticized President-elect Obama’s pick to head the sometimes-troubled CIA because he is not an ...
Feinstein warming to Panetta pick —
First Read 1/7/2009
From NBC's Ken StricklandIs incoming Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein warming to the idea of Leon Panetta as the next CIA director? Seems like it.
Sen. Feinstein said she had "a long talk" with Panetta last night. "We laughed ...
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