thedailybeast.com - 8/20/2009
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Leon Panetta Susan Walsh / AP Photo CIA Director Leon Panetta s emergency testimony to Congress about an illegal assassination program has set off a crisis at the spy agency. The Daily Beast s Joseph Finder exclusively reports that: The secret assassination program wasn t much more than a ...
abcnews.go.com - 8/24/2009
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abcnews.go.com —
A "profanity-laced screaming match" at the White House
involving CIA Director Leon Panetta, and the expected release...
today of another damning internal investigation, has administration officials worrying about the direction of its newly-appoint ...
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Obama White House Versus CIA
washingtonpost.com - 8/24/2009
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washingtonpost.com —
By Carrie Johnson Washington Post Staff Writer Monday,
August 24, 2009 2:23 PM Attorney General Eric H....
Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated ...
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Holder to Appoint Prosecutor to Investigate CIA Terror ...
theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 8/24/2009
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Daily Beast: Leon Panetta’s an incompetent moron who’s jeopardizing U.S. security
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... The Daily Beast is a center-left/RINO news outlet, so for them to kneecap The One this way is nothing short of shocking. So awful that I don’t even know how to excerpt it. Arguably the most damning story to emerge about Obama’s administrative competence since the inauguration. Remember a few months ago when Panetta wet his pants about some supposed CIA plan to assassinate Al Qaeda leaders that Congress hadn’t been briefed on (but which had been ...
Blackwater USA: Your Preferred PowerPoint Presentation Vendor Solution
Confederate Yankee —
... in the New York Times that the Central Intelligence Agency hired Blackwater USA in 2004 to locate and kill top al Qaeda members. He backs this up by claiming that various alleged anonymous sources told him so. But as an embarrassed CIA Director Leon Panetta was forced to admit, the program was little more than a PowerPoint presentation and a collection of ideas within the CIA. It never got off the ground, and was never operational. What, then, did Blackwater actually do? Manzetti's article certainly has an accusatory tone, but it doesn't seem to provide any evidence that ...
Finder Is CIA’s Keeper In Slanted NYT Op-Ed
Firedoglake —
... Fiction worthy of a novel indeed. As you may recall, it was only ten days ago we last ran into Mr. Finder doing what he apparently does best, spinning for the CIA sub-culture and Bush Administration leaders (who ...
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