thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/7/2009
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The senator from California eases off her objections to a new director for the C.I.A.
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
slate.com - 1/7/2009
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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? ...
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Why Obama picked Panetta to run the CIA. - By Fred ...
nypost.com - 1/7/2009
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nypost.com —
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. ...
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AN AWFUL PICK - New York Post
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Diane Feinstein Speaks
Taylor Marsh —
... "President-elect Obama made the comment that he doesn’t want to be told
what they think he wants to hear but what they think he should hear, and that’s
good enough for me." - Diane
Feinstein ...
Party Poopers: Dean, Pelosi, Reid, and Conyers Turn on Obama?
Politics Daily —
... Diane Feinstein wasn't crazy about Leon Panetta heading up the CIA, until Obama called her on the phone and made nice. ...
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bloomberg.com 1/6/2009 — Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Leon Panetta’s selection by President- elect Barack Obama to become CIA chief surprised two top Democrats on the Senate intelligence panel, who expressed reservations about his lack of background in the spy world. Senator Dianne ...
Questions for Panetta
weeklystandard.com 1/16/2009 — Eli Lake has an excellent piece in the Washington Times today sifting through Leon Panetta's record on rendition as Clinton's chief of staff. Panetta, Obama's nominee to head the CIA, will face confirmation hearings next week. As Lake points out, ...
Panetta too inexperienced for CIA?
swamppolitics.com 1/7/2009 — by Frank James
Reports that President-elect Barack Obama intends to make Leon Panetta director of the Central Intelligence Agency not only surprised some key Capitol Hill Democrats but left them questioning the former congressman and Clinton ...
The Panetta Pick
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 1/6/2009 —
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. ...
Feinstein slams Obama CIA head pick
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 1/6/2009 — 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 ...
Will Leon Panetta be the next body under Obama's bus?
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 ...
CIA Panetta's fees: Defense, banking
swamppolitics.com 2/5/2009 — by Mark Silva
Another senior-level and sensitive appointee of the Obama administration may be facing questions over his work in the private sector:
Leon Panetta, the president's nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency and ...
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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