commentarymagazine.com - 1/6/2009
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President-elect Obama has made his first completely incomprehensible appointment: Leon Panetta for CIA Director. No, I’m serious. Clinton OMB Director and Chief of Staff to head a key intelligence agency. One can refer to him as an “experienced bureaucrat” (to be kind) or a ...
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/5/2009
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Leon Panetta has a reputation in Washington as
a competent manager with strong background in budget issues,...
but has little hands-on intelligence experience.
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Panetta to Be Named C.I.A. Director
latimes.com - 1/6/2009
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latimes.com —
Reporting from Washington -- President-elect Barack Obama has
selected Leon E. Panetta, a former California congressman with...
little experience on intelligence matters, to serve as the next director of the CIA, according to Democratic officials ...
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Leon Panetta is Obama's pick for CIA director - Los ...
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 1/6/2009
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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 ...
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Feinstein slams Obama CIA head pick
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President-elect Obama picks Leon Panetta to head the CIA
Sister Toldjah —
... I can’t add much to Jennifer Rubin’s commentary on what looks like a blatantly political pick. ...
Why I Respect My (Democratic) Senior Senator
GayPatriot —
... selecting someone to head the CIA?
Unlike her junior colleague, the former San Francisco Mayor does not walk in lockstep with her party’s leadership and understands that Republicans are political adversaries, not mortal enemies. She often works with Republicans on key issues, even when her party leadership favors obstruction. And as this statement shows, takes issue with her party when she thinks its leaders have proposed bad policies or otherwise blundered.
H/t: Jennifer Rubin who offers a great critique of the Panetta appointment.
Apology for the ...
Barack Obama selects a 'Leon Panetta' to head the CIA
Top of the Ticket —
... As Jennifer Rubin thoughtfully notes, Panetta's career is devoid of any intelligence experience, save serving on the Iraq Study Group, which got it wrong about the surge. ...
Keep Your Friends Close
Jules Crittenden —
... As Jennifer Rubin puts it, even the Clintons wouldn’t have tried this . Unless they did … Clintonista turned Obamist/seasoned pol and bureaucrat Leon Panetta to head the CIA. What if Hillary, already controlling State, with Congress afraid of her, just triangulated on the Bush Pentagon and the Obama White House? That’d be a clever girl. ...
Mary Schapiro: WaPo's Pearlstein Takes On Obama SEC Pick
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Writing for Commentary, Jennifer Rubin calls President-elect Barack Obama's choice to place Leon Panetta at the top spot at the CIA, "his first completely incomprehensible appointment." This is wrong! Of course, I understand what Rubin is saying. I've heard some good arguments on both side of the Panetta issue, but I'll be the first to admit that my head did a sharp swivel when I heard of his appointment. Nevertheless, the plain truth is that Panetta is neither Obama's "first completely incomprehensible appointment" or his most completely incomprehensible ...
Mary Schapiro: WaPo's Pearlstein Takes On Obama SEC Pick
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Writing for Commentary, Jennifer Rubin calls President-elect Barack Obama's choice to place Leon Panetta at the top spot at the CIA, "his first completely incomprehensible appointment." This is wrong! Of course, I understand what Rubin is saying. I've heard some good arguments on both side of the Panetta issue, but I'll be the first to admit that my head did a sharp swivel when I heard of his appointment. Nevertheless, the plain truth is that Panetta is neither Obama's "first completely incomprehensible appointment" or his most completely incomprehensible ...
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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. ...
In Defense of Leon
thedailybeast.com 1/7/2009 — 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 ...
Leon Panetta as CIA Director
outsidethebeltway.com 1/6/2009 — Leon E. Panetta, the former congressman and White House chief of staff. (Kevin Wolf/Associated Press)
When I saw the news yesterday afternoon that Leon Panetta was Barack Obama’s pick to head the CIA, I decided to hold off on posting and go ...
Panetta Hearing: You Don’t Need to Torture in the ‘Ticking Bomb’ Case
washingtonindependent.com 2/6/2009 — CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta took on a right-wing myth head on, saying that even in the hypothetical “ticking bomb case” — OMG there’s a bomb hidden in Times Square that this detainee knows about we better waterboard him or everyone will die ...
Hamilton praises Panetta —
First Read 1/5/2009
From NBC's Abby Livingston Washington veteran Rep. Lee Hamilton said that his former Iraq Study Group colleague, Leon Panetta , will be a "superb" leader of the Central Intelligence Agency. Hamilton, a Democrat, spent 34 years in ...
Obama picks former Clinton aide Panetta for CIA —
Reuters: Politics 1/6/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to lead the CIA, which has been widely criticized for harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects, Democratic officials said on Monday.
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