corner.nationalreview.com - 1/6/2009
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"Ishmael Jones" is a former deep-cover officer with the Central Intelligence Agency. He is author of The Human Factor: Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture, published last year by Encounter Books. I asked him overnight what he thought of the Panetta pick and what Obama should be ...
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 ...
thecable.foreignpolicy.com - 1/5/2009
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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 ...
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00-Huh? Former intel officials react to Panetta CIA pick
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... The more I think about this, the more it seems to me that the snub of these two was a deliberate signal. Their oversight of Bush's war crimes was pathetic. Ditto Harman. Obama is telling us he is serious about both improving intelligence and drawing a clear line - for the entire world to see - between the United States and the war criminals who will soon be leaving office, and those who enabled them. Meanwhile, more support from the smart right. ...
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Firedoglake —
... "Ishmael Jones" (via K. J. Lopez):
A “safe” choice, viewed as inoffensive by the CIA’s top bureaucrats, would have been dangerous. Directors Tenet and Hayden were placid Washington civil servants of neutral loyalties, quickly coopted ...
THE PANETTA PICK: A brave choice. “The choice is a brave one because it can open Mr. Obama to cha…
Instapundit —
... THE PANETTA PICK: A brave choice. “The choice is a brave one because it can open Mr. Obama to charges of appointing a loyalist to a crucial post. But that is exactly what is needed at this time.” ...
What Else Could Possibly Be A Problem?
Daily Pundit —
Panetta a ‘Brave’ Choice, Says Former CIA Agent - Kathryn Jean Lopez - The Corner on National Review Online
Now that the Democrats are in charge, their focus shifts from winning power to holding it. A nuclear attack on America or an ally that could have been prevented through intelligence reform will severely harm the new president and his party.
Well, yes, of course. The primary concern about a nuclear attack on America should be the malign effect it might have on the President and his party.
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Chicago Boyz —
... since at least 1991 that has waxed and waned, but it never recovered the competence in clandestinity or the esprit de corps it enjoyed in its glory years under Allen Dulles or the brief revival ushered in by William Casey and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. The CIA now bleeds talent to better-paying private military companies like CACI or Blackwater and engages in domestic political intrigue and gross waste like any other government agency. Post-9/11 “intelligence reforms” badly battered the CIA as an institution ...
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