blogs.cqpolitics.com - 1/6/2009
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President-elect Obama's selection of former congressman and White House official Leon E. Panetta to run the CIA is likely to give Republicans fresh ammunition to reopen questions about the Clinton administration's counterterrorism policies. Critics have long maintained that Clinton was ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/6/2009
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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. ...
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The Panetta Pick
sfgate.com - 1/7/2009
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sfgate.com —
Feinstein - the new chairwoman of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, who will oversee Panetta's confirmation hearings -
raised eyebrows when she expressed surprisingly sharp disapproval of Panetta as nominee for CIA chief on Monday. She said that "the ...
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Why Feinstein broke with Obama on Panetta
nypost.com - 1/7/2009
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Last updated: 12:51 am January 7, 2009 Posted:
12:36 am January 7, 2009 WOULD you ask your
accountant to perform brain surgery on your child? That's the closest analogy I can find to the choice of Democratic Party hack Leon Panetta to head the CIA. ...
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AN AWFUL PICK - New York Post
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Leon Panetta as CIA Director
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... CQ’s Jeff Stein says the pick “is likely to give Republicans fresh ammunition to reopen questions about the Clinton administration’s counterterrorism policies.” Of course, Obama might view that as a feature rather than a bug. ...
Frank Naif: If You Think Panetta's Wrong For CIA, You Might Be Part Of The Problem
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... intelligence pedigree, and that nothing less will do. Senior Congressional Democrats have signaled their displeasure with the Panetta pick, but as Joan Walsh at Salon.com points out, these same Democratic leaders have knowingly aided and abetted the worst Bush intelligence practices. Among the more persistent worries about Panetta's nomination is how Republicans, national security hawks, and intelligence professionals will use his lack of intelligence experience and history with the Clinton administration to paint Panetta as a lightweight and national security ...
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Panetta to Head CIA
firedoglake.com 1/5/2009 — President Elect Barack Obama has tapped Leon Panetta as his choice for Director of Central Intelligence. Panetta, the former eight term California Representative and former President Bill Clinton Chief of Staff, has no specific intelligence ...
PEBO Taps Panetta to Head CIA
blogs.abcnews.com 1/5/2009 — Democratic officials tell ABC News that President-elect Obama has tapped former Rep. Leon Panetta, D-Calif., to serve as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta, who served as both director of the Office of Management and Budget and chief ...
Panetta great on torture
washingtonmonthly.com 1/6/2009 — PANETTA GREAT ON TORTURE.... With Leon Panetta slated to take over the CIA, for many of us, and I include myself in this, the first question is pretty straightforward: how is he on torture? Atrios pointed to an op-ed piece...
Panetta, Obama, and the Senate
corner.nationalreview.com 1/6/2009 — On Panetta -- in addition to opinions in The Corner, there is the ever-so-slightly more important opinion of the new chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein:
I was not informed about the selection of Leon Panetta to be ...
Pushback against Panetta
washingtonmonthly.com 1/6/2009 — PUSHBACK AGAINST PANETTA.... Barack Obama's selection of Leon Panetta as the next head of the CIA has generated a wide variety of responses, but some of the most aggressive pushback has come from a few Senate Democrats. Sen. Dianne Feinstein...
Neocons for Panetta
politico.com 1/6/2009 — Leon Panetta, I report today, has found some unlikely -- and perhaps unwelcome -- allies among the neoconservatives who backed the Iraq war, and clashed bitterly with the CIA in the Bush years.
Panetta is "a very smart, very capable guy with ...
Bayh: I'll Back Panetta
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/6/2009 — On the Rachel Maddow show last night, Senate intelligence committee member Evan Bayh (D-IN) professed no objections to the choice of Leon Panetta to head the Obama CIA.
"Leon Panetta is an outstanding public servant and I intend to support his ...
Obama's chooses Panetta, with help from Wyden?
blueoregon.com 1/7/2009 — An interesting little story seems to be unfolding surrounding Obama's choice to head the CIA: Leon Panetta . Obama announced the choice yesterday to the surprise of many. Panetta has been a strong critic of Bush Administration policies on ...
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