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marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 1/10/2009
The CIA Director's Greatest Challenge: Human Resources
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Torture is the flashiest way to frame Barack Obama's selection of Leon Panetta to helm the CIA, but that's the starting point for analysis. It's been a given, ever since Obama decided not to select John Brennan, that the next CIA director would oppose the specific "enhanced ...
washingtonindependent.com - 1/15/2009
Panetta and … Extraordinary Rendition?
— washingtonindependent.com — My friend Eli Lake reports for The Washington Times that Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on... Intelligence intend to question CIA director-designate Leon Panetta about whether he played any role in ordering terrorism suspects to be kidnapped ... (more) Panetta and … Extraordinary Rendition?

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marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 1/6/2009
When The CIA Director's Identity Is Leaked....
— marcambinder.theatlantic.com — Someone leaked the news that Leon Panetta would be CIA director to a few publications; I think... the New York Times and NBC News had it first. The leak didn't come from the Obama campaign. The plan was to announce Panetta later in the week. It is ... (more) When The CIA Director's Identity Is Leaked....

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pajamasmedia.com - 1/6/2009
Leon Panetta for CIA?
— pajamasmedia.com — Leon Panetta, a former congressman with no intelligence experience, has been tapped to run the CIA in... the Obama Administration. It is hard to know what is worse: the rampant Washington insiderdom or the shocking lack of experience. Panetta did not ... (more) Leon Panetta for CIA?

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Politics on HuffingtonPost.com:  Frank Naif: Whining CIA Officials, Leon Panetta, and Einstein's Definition of Insanity

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Frank Naif: Whining CIA Officials, Leon Panetta, and Einstein's Definition of Insanity
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Of course that resignation rate is low--everybody at CIA is either at the very beginning or very end of their careers. Marc Ambinder reported earlier this week that most of the CIA workforce either entered on duty sometime within the last seven or so years, or is hanging on for another couple of years for retirement because they started while Brezhnev was still running the Soviet Union. ...

Frank Naif: CIA employees left behind over terrorist renditions
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... The agency reportedly suffers a shortage of experienced, qualified officers who can speak foreign languages and do tough overseas duty. ...

Frank Naif: Congress demands full account of intelligence outsourcing mess - and it's a mess
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... One fundamental problem is that the rapid growth of intelligence contracting has decimated the spy workforce. Marc Ambinder reported earlier this year that the ranks of mid-level intelligence officers are currently thin, with a majority of intelligence employees at the beginning or ends of their careers. ...

Frank Naif: The discreet charms of CIA morale
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Michael Hayden succeeded Goss and fared somewhat better in cultivating better morale, but he faced some tough sledding, the result of nearly two decades of bad morale. One disturbing artifact of the bad morale legacy: CIA's current work force is probably its youngest and least experienced in its history. ...

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