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redstate.com - 1/5/2009
Obama’s CIA Designee Sought CIA Cuts, Threatened Director
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Barack Obama is set to name Leon Panetta as the next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In light of that fact, it's worthwhile to look pack at Panetta's relationship with the agency (and its Director) when he was the Director of Bill Clinton's OMB, and later his Chief ...

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Hot Air » Top Picks:  Obama names Clinton crony who’s never worked in intelligence to head CIA

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Panetta to Be Named C.I.A. Director
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/5/2009
Panetta to Be Named C.I.A. Director
— thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com — Leon Panetta has a reputation in Washington as a competent manager with strong background in budget issues, but has little hands-on intelligence experience. (more) Panetta to Be Named C.I.A. Director

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Leon Panetta is Obama's pick for CIA director - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com - 1/6/2009
Leon Panetta is Obama's pick for CIA director - Los Angeles Times
— 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 ... (more) Leon Panetta is Obama's pick for CIA director - Los ...

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Feinstein slams Obama CIA head pick
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 1/6/2009
Feinstein slams Obama CIA head pick
— politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com — 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 ... (more) Feinstein slams Obama CIA head pick

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Obama names Clinton crony who’s never worked in intelligence to head CIA
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... — or certain personnel, like Brennan, in lower-profile deputy roles — I guess we’ll see. Meanwhile, Brian Faughnan at Red State forwards an interesting passage from the CIA Library on Panetta’s spending priorities while head of Clinton’s budget office. Read it now, because the GOP’s bound to reference it at the confirmation hearing. Exit quotation: “Was Panetta wrong about the threats the U.S. faces in the 1990s, or was he simply too drive by green eyeshades over national security? Either way, the picture isn’t pretty.”

Pondering Panetta
The Opinionator — ... in California’s history, a high Broderist effort called California Forward, which thinks the biggest problem in the state is that lawmakers from both sides don’t have drinks together anymore, or something. At least Panetta’s influence on the state will be lessened. He’s not my favorite guy by any stretch, but if he can manage to not have the CIA kidnapping and torturing anymore he can hold his head up high.” While Brian Faughnan at RedState thinks Panetta’s budget-hawk ways made America a more dangerous place in the ’90s: Panetta’s tenure at the White House — both as ...

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