swampland.blogs.time.com - 1/5/2009
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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 Clinton.
On cue, Marc Ambinder finds the clip ...
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/5/2009
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Leon Panetta has a reputation in Washington as
a competent manager with strong background in budget issues,...
but has little hands-on intelligence experience.
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Panetta to Be Named C.I.A. Director
washingtonmonthly.com - 1/5/2009
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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 ...
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No Torture. No Exceptions. - Leon E. Panetta
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 ...
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CIA pick Panetta: "We cannot and we must not use torture under any circumstances."
Corrente —
... Here. Of course, "we do not torture," and the Village doesn't want any Villager held accountable for anything, ever, but still, encouraging signs. I mean, imagine if Hayden were kept on as a holdover in the spirit of bi-partisanship. ...
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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 On Torture
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 ...
Re Panetta
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 ...
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 ...
The Panetta Pick
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. ...
Panetta to CIA
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 ...
Panetta Hearing: You Don’t Need to Torture in the ‘Ticking Bomb’ Case
washingtonindependent.com 2/6/2009 — CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta took on a right-wing myth head on, saying that even in the hypothetical “ticking bomb case” — OMG there’s a bomb hidden in Times Square that this detainee knows about we better waterboard him or everyone will die ...
Panetta Hearing
corner.nationalreview.com 2/6/2009 — Panetta just said that if they caught Osama bin Laden, they would find a place to hold him briefly, give him access to the International Red Cross, and use the Army Field Manual to question him.
If we had followed this policy when Khalid Sheikh ...
Panetta to CIA
corner.nationalreview.com 1/6/2009 — In the very early days of the Bush administration, Karl Rove asked a Washington policy wonk what personnel changes he'd recommend to newly arrived George W. The wonk said "there is one matter of life and death: he must replace Tenet at CIA and put in ...
Sources: Panetta is pick for CIA —
CNN Political Ticker 1/5/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Leon Panetta, chief of staff in Bill Clinton's White House, will be President-elect Barack Obama's choice to head the CIA, two Democratic officials told CNN Monday.
The same officials said that retired Adm. Dennis Blair, who ...
Hamilton praises Panetta —
First Read 1/5/2009
From NBC's Abby Livingston Washington veteran Rep. Lee Hamilton said that his former Iraq Study Group colleague, Leon Panetta , will be a "superb" leader of the Central Intelligence Agency. Hamilton, a Democrat, spent 34 years in ...
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