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Obama Picks Anti-Torture Advocate for CIA Chief

Outside The Beltway | OTB found this 1/6/2009 on motherjones.com

News outfits are reporting that Leon Panetta has been tapped by President-elect Barack Obama to take over the Central Intelligence Agency. It's an unusual choice, for Panetta, a former Democratic congressman who became President Bill Clinton's budget chief and then his White House chief of ...