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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/6/2009
Feinstein Explains Her Reticence About Panetta Nomination
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Just talked with Dianne Feinstein outside the Senate chamber about her qualms with the Leon Panetta nomination. The incoming Senate intelligence committee chairman said that both President-elect Obama and Vice President-elect Biden called her after the fact to discuss the surprise choice of ...
Feinstein slams Obama CIA head pick
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 1/6/2009
Feinstein slams Obama CIA head pick
— politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com — Sen. Dianne Feinstein believes the CIA is best-served by having an intelligence professional in charge. (CNN) –-... Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the Senate’s incoming Intelligence committee chair, slammed President-elect Barack Obama’s choice of Leon ... (more) Feinstein slams Obama CIA head pick

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washingtonindependent.com - 1/5/2009
Dianne Feinstein Not Too Pleased With Panetta Pick
— washingtonindependent.com — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who’s about to take the reins as chairwoman of the Senate... Select Committee on Intelligence, doesn’t appear to be too happy with Leon Panetta’s prospective appointment to head the CIA. ... (more) Dianne Feinstein Not Too Pleased With Panetta Pick

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firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 1/6/2009
Even more on the Panetta pick
— 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 ... (more) Even more on the Panetta pick

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Talking Points Memo:  DiFi Speaks

The Atlantic Politics Channel:  Wyden The Net Of Panetta Informants; Feinstein's A Fan Of Kappes

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  Bringing DiFi Around

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DiFi Speaks
Talking Points Memo — Dianne Feinstein explains her reticence on Panetta. ...

Wyden The Net Of Panetta Informants; Feinstein's A Fan Of Kappes
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... Schor then catches up with Dianne Feinstein, who tells her that if Obama keeps longtime CIA official Steve Kappes as deputy CIA director, then she'd be much more comfortable with Panetta. ...

Bringing DiFi Around
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Elana Schor: Feinstein seemed to acknowledge the Obama team's desire to find a CIA director who would signal an end to the abusive interrogation tactics of the Bush years. "We all want a break with the past," she told the reporters milling around her in the Senate. "I was the one who went into the conference committee" between the House and the Senate last year with an amendment that would use the Army Field Manual as the universal standard for detainee interrogations, she added. Meanwhile, Roberts is fine with ...

Alas, I Think She's Right
Talking Points Memo — ... that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), last seen getting bristly over Leon Panetta's appointment to run the CIA, says the Senate Democratic leadership was wrong not to seat Roland Burris. ...

The argument for Leon Panetta
TigerHawk — If both Dianne Feinstein and Bill O'Reilly are unhappy with Barack Obama's choice to run the CIA, Leon Panetta, that is a signal to look into it more deeply. In a ...

Rounding Up on Panetta
Talking Points Memo — ... for the appointment in Slate. Elana Schor got an impromptu interview with Sen. Feinstein who seemed to soften her initial coolness toward the appointment and suggested she might be more receptive if Obama kept on the CIA's current #2 guy Stephen Kappes in his current role. And this late ...

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