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newsweek.com - 1/12/2009
CIA: Puzzlement Over the Panetta Pick | Newsweek Periscope
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President-Elect Obama may have pleased his base by naming a CIA chief—former Clinton aide Leon Panetta—who had nothing to do with the Bush administration's controversial interrogation practices. But Obama may have riled them back up with his decision to give adviser John Brennan , who abandoned ...
sfgate.com - 1/7/2009
Why Feinstein broke with Obama on Panetta
— 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 ... (more) Why Feinstein broke with Obama on Panetta

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Why Obama picked Panetta to run the CIA. - By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine
slate.com - 1/7/2009
Why Obama picked Panetta to run the CIA. - By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine
— slate.com — 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? ... (more) Why Obama picked Panetta to run the CIA. - By Fred ...

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newyorker.com - 1/6/2009
Leon Panetta at the C.I.A.: Think Tank: Online Only: The New Yorker
— newyorker.com — That would appear to be the sound of gears grinding on the smooth-gliding Obamamobile. Two process errors... on the same day! The first one—failing to vet Bill Richardson properly—is forgivable. Nobody vets Richardson. Perhaps I should mention that when ... (more) Leon Panetta at the C.I.A.: Think Tank: Online Only: The ...

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I Keep Waiting For The Backlash . . .
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — ... it's the wise thing to do. No, quite the contrary. If John McCain won and pulled the reins on changing interrogation policies, the howls from the media and from the Left side of the Blogosphere would be vast and deafening. The people who criticized the so-called "Imperial Presidency" during the Bush Administration were never against the augmentation of Presidential power per se . They were just against it when their side was out of office. Now that their side is back in office, enhanced interrogation is suddenly not a bad idea and the deterioration in the power of the ...

I Keep Waiting For The Backlash . . .
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... The people who criticized the so-called “Imperial Presidency” during the Bush Administration were never against the augmentation of Presidential power per se. They were just against it when their side was out of office. Now that their side is back in office, enhanced interrogation is suddenly not a bad idea and the deterioration in the power of the Presidency is suddenly something to be concerned about. To be sure, there are plenty of conservatives who have suddenly become skeptics of Presidential power. They will have to reconcile their ...

Remainders: Mexico
Ben Smith's Blog — (Obama and Calderone, from AP) Clinton preps for her hearing. Obama's Middle East team lacks on Arabs and Persians. Israel bars Arab parties from its election. Hosenball explains the state of play at the CIA. The she's-a-friend-of-Obama argument for Caroline Kennedy gathers steam. Russ Smith prefers Mario. The Monkey Cage picks the year's best polisci. Pepsi imitates and flatters the Obama campaign. An Obama look-alike plays a role in the French ...

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