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time.com - 1/6/2009

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The Page by Mark Halperin:  PANETTA BACKLASH

Antiwar.com Original:  Was Panetta Picked in a Panic?

Top of the Ticket:  What did the CIA lie to Congress about, and where was Cheney?

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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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thecable.foreignpolicy.com - 1/5/2009

00-Huh? Former intel officials react to Panetta CIA pick

— thecable.foreignpolicy.com — Early reaction to the news today that President-Elect Obama plans to name former congressman and Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to be his CIA director was greeted by intelligence watchers in town with something approaching ... (more) 00-Huh? Former intel officials react to Panetta CIA pick

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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/6/2009

The Panetta Pick

— yglesias.thinkprogress.org — 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. ... (more) The Panetta Pick

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PANETTA BACKLASH
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... Suggests a potentially difficult confirmation process.       ...

Was Panetta Picked in a Panic?
Antiwar.com Original — ... , both at OMB and the White House, will help him to be effective. Maybe. But both arguments have more to do with the standing of the CIA within the White House and its position in Washington's bureaucratic turf wars than with the larger concern that the CIA should produce accurate and independent information, not what the White House or other policymakers want to hear, as was the case in the Bush administration, especially with people-pleaser George Tenet. I suspect Panetta's lack of intelligence experience will make it difficult to impossible for him to know much about the ...

What did the CIA lie to Congress about, and where was Cheney?
Top of the Ticket — ... Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee set off a political bombshell this week. In a leaked letter, they disclosed that CIA Director Leon Panetta -- four months after taking office -- learned that his agency had misled Congress about a special project. He canceled the program and scheduled closed-door meetings with the House and Senate Intelligence Committees the next day to brief them. ...