weeklystandard.com - 1/6/2009
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"Anybody with a brain realizes you can't trust the agency," said one Republican when I asked him about the appointment of Leon Panetta to run the CIA. So you take someone with a reputation as a competent manager and caretaker and install him there in the hopes that the agency does as little ...
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 1/6/2009
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein believes the CIA is best-served
by having an intelligence professional in charge. (CNN) –-
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the Senate’s incoming Intelligence committee chair, slammed President-elect Barack Obama’s choice of Leon ...
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Feinstein slams Obama CIA head pick
washingtonindependent.com - 1/5/2009
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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. ...
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Dianne Feinstein Not Too Pleased With Panetta Pick
commentarymagazine.com - 1/6/2009
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commentarymagazine.com —
President-elect Obama has made his first completely incomprehensible
appointment: Leon Panetta for CIA Director. No, I’m serious.
Clinton OMB Director and Chief of Staff to head a key intelligence agency. One can refer to him as an ...
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Not Even the Clintons Would Have Tried This
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Barack Obama Announces Top Intel Picks
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... rights and immoral. They want the CIA to stop this practice immediately.
Obama made this a major issue during the primaries as well; he sided with the liberal wing of his party, demanding an immediate halt to all such practices. Panetta has presented himself as a firm opponent of torture, or enhanced interrogation techniques, as well recently, so choosing him for the top slot at the CIA makes some sense.
Not only does Panetta oppose torture, he is also a good manager. As The Weekly Standard’s Michael Goldfarb explains, ...
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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 Choice as CIA Chief Draws Democrats’ Concerns (Update2)
bloomberg.com 1/6/2009 — Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Leon Panetta’s selection by President- elect Barack Obama to become CIA chief surprised two top Democrats on the Senate intelligence panel, who expressed reservations about his lack of background in the spy world. Senator Dianne ...
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 ...
Feinstein's Aboard For Panetta
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/7/2009 — Via AP, we see that incoming Senate intelligence chairman Dianne Feinstein is now supportive of Leon Panetta's nomination to head the CIA.
Seems that Panetta called Feinstein last night and she is "confident he'd surround himself with good ...
Questions for Panetta
weeklystandard.com 1/16/2009 — Eli Lake has an excellent piece in the Washington Times today sifting through Leon Panetta's record on rendition as Clinton's chief of staff. Panetta, Obama's nominee to head the CIA, will face confirmation hearings next week. As Lake points out, ...
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 too inexperienced for CIA?
swamppolitics.com 1/7/2009 — by Frank James
Reports that President-elect Barack Obama intends to make Leon Panetta director of the Central Intelligence Agency not only surprised some key Capitol Hill Democrats but left them questioning the former congressman and Clinton ...
Why Feinstein broke with Obama on Panetta
sfgate.com 1/7/2009 — 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 ...
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 ...
Obama picks former Clinton aide Panetta for CIA —
Reuters: Politics 1/6/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to lead the CIA, which has been widely criticized for harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects, Democratic officials said on Monday.
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