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washingtonmonthly.com - 1/6/2009
Panetta great on torture
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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...

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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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firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 1/6/2009
Even more on the Panetta pick
— firstread.msnbc.msn.com — From NBC's Andrea MitchellNBC News has learned that Senate Democrats -- including Dianne Feinstein and Jay Rockefeller, who are the incoming and outgoing Intelligence chairmen -- have privately recommended a career CIA officer to head the ... (more) Even more on the Panetta pick

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washingtonindependent.com - 1/5/2009
Dianne Feinstein Not Too Pleased With Panetta Pick
— washingtonindependent.com — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who’s about to take the reins as chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, doesn’t appear to be too happy with Leon Panetta’s prospective appointment to head the CIA. ... (more) Dianne Feinstein Not Too Pleased With Panetta Pick

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Leon Panetta
The Reaction — By Creature Along the same lines as my last post, how sad is it that I'm happy the new CIA Director is against torture? This shouldn't even be a debate, let alone a cause for joy. (Cross-posted at State of the Day.)

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marcambinder.theatlantic.com 1/5/2009 — Here's Central Intelligence Agency director-designate Leon E. Panetta, writing about torture, in the Washington Monthly. Actually, no -- he's writing in the Washington Monthly about torture: We have preached these values to the world. We have made ...
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swampland.blogs.time.com 1/5/2009 — As Joe notes below , multiple news outlets are reporting that Obama has found his next CIA director: Leon Panetta, who once quit the Nixon Administration in protest over his Civil Rights policy, and later became a chief of staff to President Bill ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 1/6/2009 — Angelo Codevilla, author of the new book Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft, tells NRO: Leon Panetta may not know very much about foreign affairs or defense matters. He is wholly unacquainted with the questions and quarrels ...
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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 ...
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swampland.blogs.time.com 1/6/2009 — This smells a bit of desperation. Leon Panetta is a terrific guy, a fine public servant--one of those people who reek of sanity and good judgment--but he doesn't have much, if any, experience in spook world. The problem was trying to find a DCI with ...
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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 ...
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pajamasmedia.com 1/6/2009 — Leon Panetta, a former congressman with no intelligence experience, has been tapped to run the CIA in the Obama Administration. It is hard to know what is worse: the rampant Washington insiderdom or the shocking lack of experience. Panetta did not ...
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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. ...
No Torture. No Exceptions. - Leon E. Panetta
washingtonmonthly.com 1/5/2009 — A ccording to the latest polls, two-thirds of the American public believes that torturing suspected terrorists to gain important information is justified in some circumstances. How did we transform from champions of human dignity and individual rights ...
Support for Panetta trickles in — POLITICO.com: Politics 1/7/2009
After a rocky start, at least five members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are backing Leon Panetta.  
Support for Panetta trickles in (Politico) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/7/2009
Politico - After a rocky start, Barack Obama’s choice to lead the CIA gained critical support in Congress on Tuesday, with at least five members of the Senate Intelligence Committee backing Leon Panetta.
Townsend: U.S. needs a spy chief with experience — CNN.com - Politics 1/7/2009
Leon Panetta is an impressive man with many laudable achievements to his credit.