thedailybeast.com - 1/7/2009
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The critics grumbling that Leon Panetta isn't qualified to head the CIA are missing the point: Only an outsider can save Langley. Whenever Washington insiders really want to guard their turf, they start putting out the word that a prospective boss is not a pro and that what s really needed is a ...
sfgate.com - 1/7/2009
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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
newyorker.com - 1/6/2009
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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 ...
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Leon Panetta at the C.I.A.: Think Tank: Online Only: The ...
slate.com - 1/7/2009
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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 ...
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Panetta and the Pros, Cont'd
The Stump —
Les Gelb offers a (much fuller) variation on a point I made yesterday, which is that having been an intelligence "professional" isn't necessarily a predictor of success at the CIA. George Tenet was a longtime "pro," but his tenure--though it had some successes--was mostly a disaster. Adds Gelb: Before others join them, they would all do well to scrutinize the
history of past appointments of pros and non-pros. I would say that the
non-pro defense secretaries Clark Clifford and Mel Laird were every bit
as good in ...
More on Panetta
The Reaction —
... as usual. Faddis himself is an Obama supporter, but, to him, "Panetta is not the guy we need to run CIA right now," given that "he knows nothing about intelligence, particularly human intelligence." Still, Panetta has his prominent supporters, including Sen. Evan Bayh, as well as leading intelligence experts like Paul Pillar and Gregory Treverton. And at The Daily Beast, Leslie Gelb writes that Panetta is a great choice -- and exactly what Langley needs: ...
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