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news.yahoo.com - 2/6/2009

CIA nominee Panetta: 'We've got to move forward' (AP)

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AP - The man nominated to head the CIA, Leon Panetta, says it's time for the agency to move ahead, not to dwell on the harsh treatment of foreign detainees in the previous administration.

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telegraph.co.uk - 2/7/2009

CIA warns Barack Obama that British terrorists are the biggest threat to the US

— telegraph.co.uk — Barack Obama has been warned by the CIA that British Islamist extremists are the greatest threat to... US homeland security. (more) CIA warns Barack Obama that British terrorists are the ...

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politico.com - 2/7/2009

Reporter restrained after Panetta hearing

— politico.com — Following Leon Panetta’s confirmation hearing Thursday, several reporters approached the CIA director-designate in the hallway outside room... G-50 in the Dirksen Building. There, CongressDaily reporter Chris Strohm — upon asking a ... (more) Reporter restrained after Panetta hearing

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google.com - 2/6/2009

The Associated Press: Panetta takes back remarks on detainee rendition

— google.com — 8 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) The United States will continue to hand foreign detainees over to other... countries for questioning, but only with assurances they will not be tortured, Leon Panetta told a Senate committee considering his confirmation as ... (more) The Associated Press: Panetta takes back remarks on ...

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Leon Panetta…Feckless Crapweasel*
Ace of Spades HQ — Leon Panetta…Feckless Crapweasel* Yesterday Obama’s nominee to head the CIA basically accused the agency he wants to run of violating the law. Today, not so much. The United States will continue to hand foreign detainees over to other countries for questioning, but only with assurances they will not be tortured, Leon Panetta told a Senate committee considering his confirmation as CIA director. That has long been U.S. policy, but some former prisoners subjected to the process — known as extraordinary rendition_ during the Bush administration's anti-terror war say they were ...

Panetta: No Prosecutions For CIA Torturers
Newshoggers.com — ... By Cernig The AP reports that CIA Director-nominee Leon Panetta has stated categorically that there will be no prosecutions for torturers. Asked by The Associated Press if that was official policy, Panetta said, "That is the case." It was the clearest statement yet on what Panetta and other Democratic officials had only strongly suggested: CIA officers who acted on legal orders from the Bush administration would not be held responsible for those policies. On Thursday, he told senators that the Obama ...

Carol Platt Liebau: Security Comes from Defeating Our Enemies
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — The mindset of Democrats when it comes to national security is remarkable -- and frightening. Even as Obama's nominee to be CIA director, Leon Panetta, made it clear that the administration would not prosecute CIA interrogators (who, incidentally, may have saved innocent lives with the information they elicited), he spouted the same specious rhetoric we have heard from the President on down: Panetta said . . . that he believes the greatest weapon the United States has against terrorists is its moral authority and commitment to the rule of law. Remember President Obama's ...

Panetta: No Prosecutions For CIA Torturers
Crooks and Liars — The AP reports that CIA Director-nominee Leon Panetta has stated categorically that there will be no prosecutions for torturers. Asked by The Associated Press if that was official policy, Panetta said, "That is the case." It was the clearest statement yet on what Panetta and other Democratic officials had only strongly suggested: CIA officers who acted on legal orders from the Bush administration would not be held responsible for those policies. On Thursday, he told senators that the Obama administration had no intention ...