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Think Progress: ThinkFast: January 7, 2009
JammieWearingFool: Panetta Snags Key Sandy 'Socks' Berger Endorsement
No Runny Eggs: I feel so much better about the Panetta DCI appointment…NOT
Pat Dollard | Young Americans: Sandy Burglar Says Leon’s Cool With Him … Ralph Peters Says, ‘Bullshit!’
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash: Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for January 9, 2009
ThinkFast: January 7, 2009
Think Progress —
... Speaking of Leon Panetta’s qualifications to head the CIA, former White House counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke remarked: “He was in the small handful of people who knew there was a terrorism problem long before anybody else had heard of al-Qaeda.” ...
Panetta Snags Key Sandy 'Socks' Berger Endorsement
JammieWearingFool —
Be afraid. Be very afraid . Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, Lake's deputy before becoming national security adviser himself, said that Panetta "was part of the decision-making process for every single issue we were dealing with, whether this was in the Oval Office with the president or the Cabinet Room -- the Middle East, Kosovo, China. He was a part of a small group of people who advised the president how to proceed on strategy and substance." That alone is enough to disqualify him. If you need further evidence, consider ...
I feel so much better about the Panetta DCI appointment…NOT
No Runny Eggs —
... former Clinton-era National Security Advisor Sandy Burgla…er, Burger giving DCI-Designate (and fellow Clintonista) Leon Panetta a rather dubious endorsement. From the Washington Post story: ...
Sandy Burglar Says Leon’s Cool With Him … Ralph Peters Says, ‘Bullshit!’
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... mention something …
Notice how the ‘faulty intelligence’ mantra seemed to drop into some black hole and be replaced by ‘faulty intelligence’ concerning WMD and the Iraq War?
BOTH files of intel were gathered during the Clinton Administration.
However, it’s easier to distance Clinton and his staff from the war than from an attack on our own soil only months after leaving office … so one simple gets ignored.
WaPo:
Panetta’s Peers Back Him for CIA
They Cite Years of Relevant ...
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for January 9, 2009
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... I'm truly sorry to say Repuglicans will always be "me first," they will never embrace the concept of "we"! Their ideology is not, I repeat is not a flexible, inclusive, uniting for the good of all philosophy, they are a group of people with a rigid, unyielding, severe, written in stone set of uncompromising standards! Their desire is not "democracy," their basis of need is to dictate and rule! * * * "Panetta's Peers Back Him for CIA. They Cite Years of Relevant Experience." Leon Panetta obviously does have the experience he needs to be CIA Director!!! Here lately one can ...
