observer.com - 1/5/2009
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The argument that the constant carping about Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been a function of an Obama-friendly, process-obsessed media is well and good. But how, then, to explain the deeply held dissatisfaction of an old Clinton loyalist like Leon Panetta? In an interview with The Observer , ...
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 ...
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Panetta Choice Could Reopen Old Wounds on Clinton ...
washingtonpost.com - 1/7/2009
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Panetta's Peers Back Him for CIA
democracyarsenal.org - 1/5/2009
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democracyarsenal.org —
One thing to remember about Leon Panetta, if
he is confirmed as CIA Director , is that...
he’ll bring an interesting asset to the intel community. He knows how brains work inside the West Wing because he was there as White House Chief of Staff, and ...
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Panetta's Experience
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Leon Panetta: Obama's CIA Director, Reports Say
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Panetta criticized Hillary Clinton's campaign last winter in a New York Observer interview, saying they had underestimated Obama. ...
Why Barack Obama Chose Leon Panetta To Head The CIA
The Moderate Voice —
... Panetta wasn’t entirely loved by all Democrats in 2008. He raised eyebrows — and probably inspired some of the words caught on tape used by Illinois big-haired governor — when in February, he criticized the Hillary Clinton camp for not properly assessing Obama’s appeal — and compared Clinton’s pollster to Republican political maven Karl Rove. ...
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The Washington Post front-pages, “[C]urrent and former intelligence officials expressed sharp resentment over Obama's choice of Leon E. Panetta as CIA director and suggested that the agency suffers from incompetent leadership and low morale. ...
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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 ...
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