andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 1/6/2009
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Josh is onto something : I'm not certain what I think about this appointment yet. But on first
blush, the nature of the opposition makes me more inclined to support
it. That strikes me as exactly right. Feinstein and Rockefeller sense a real individual with real clout at the agency, whom they ...
firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 1/6/2009
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firstread.msnbc.msn.com —
From NBC's Andrea MitchellNBC News has learned that
Senate Democrats -- including Dianne Feinstein and Jay Rockefeller,...
who are the incoming and outgoing Intelligence chairmen -- have privately recommended a career CIA officer to head the ...
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You Know, I Knew I'd Find One of Obama's Appointments To Dislike,
Stubborn Facts —
... Who knows. I find the choice making more sense today than yesterday, but not by enough for me to be comfortable with it. Oh, and this from Andrew Sullivan is kinda mockworthy, and I think Althouse ...
Panetta? Why not?
The Reaction —
By Michael J.W. Stickings Like Josh Marshall, Andrew Sullivan, and Creature -- three of my favourite bloggers -- I'm not sure what to make of Obama's surprise selection of Leon Panetta to be CIA director. His extensive White House (CoS to Clinton) and Congressional experience should serve him well in a position that is, like it or not, political, but I think the intelligence community is right to be concerned. The question is, after all, just how political is he, just how close to ...
Playing Panetta politics
Political Animal —
... see the big picture. If we start with a premise that Obama wanted to find a credible, experienced manager, who's dealt with intelligence but remains untainted by the Bush-era scandals, Panetta starts to look like an ideal choice. As Sullivan concluded , "[I]t's obvious that Obama has actually found someone both capable of running a bureaucracy as complex as the CIA, of a stature to be approved by the Congress and maintain good relations, and with the good sense to know how interrogation based on torture is never right and much less effective than legal methods. It remains an ...
Welcome Fellow Travelers to the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy!
Firedoglake —
... And then there are those crazy lefties Doug Feith and Richard Perle. Pinkos all.
I think Andrew Sullivan has a much more insightful evaluation of the situation: ...
1/7: Standing Up For Panetta
Blogometer —
... to tap Panetta as CIA dir.: The Atlantic 's Andrew Sullivan also praises the choice: "Some are now citing Panetta's appointment as somehow 'political' rather than substantive. But it's obvious that Obama has actually found someone both capable of running a bureaucracy as complex as the CIA, of a stature to be approved by the Congress and maintain good relations, and with the good sense to know how interrogation based on torture is never right and much less effective than legal methods. It remains an inspired choice. And the critics help show why." PANETTA II: If DiFi Opposes ...
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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, 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 ...
Panetta great on torture
washingtonmonthly.com 1/6/2009 — PANETTA GREAT ON TORTURE.... With Leon Panetta slated to take over the CIA, for many of us, and I include myself in this, the first question is pretty straightforward: how is he on torture? Atrios pointed to an op-ed piece...
Panetta to CIA
swampland.blogs.time.com 1/6/2009 — This smells a bit of desperation. Leon Panetta is a terrific guy, a fine public servant--one of those people who reek of sanity and good judgment--but he doesn't have much, if any, experience in spook world. The problem was trying to find a DCI with ...
Panetta On Torture
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 1/5/2009 — Here's Central Intelligence Agency director-designate Leon E. Panetta, writing about torture, in the Washington Monthly. Actually, no -- he's writing in the Washington Monthly about torture:
We have preached these values to the world. We have made ...
Neocons for Panetta
politico.com 1/6/2009 — Leon Panetta, I report today, has found some unlikely -- and perhaps unwelcome -- allies among the neoconservatives who backed the Iraq war, and clashed bitterly with the CIA in the Bush years.
Panetta is "a very smart, very capable guy with ...
Newsweek: Why Obama picked Panetta
blog.newsweek.com 1/6/2009 — Among Obama's reasons for choosing Panetta, sources said, were his reputation as a "first-rate manager," his White House experience handling issues related to "intelligence support" and his history of establishing cooperative relations between the ...
Panetta to CIA
corner.nationalreview.com 1/6/2009 — In the very early days of the Bush administration, Karl Rove asked a Washington policy wonk what personnel changes he'd recommend to newly arrived George W. The wonk said "there is one matter of life and death: he must replace Tenet at CIA and put in ...
Panetta To Head CIA
talkleft.com 1/5/2009 — NYTimes : President-elect Barack Obama has selected Leon E. Panetta, the former congressman and White House chief of staff, to take over the Central Intelligence Agency, an organization that Mr. Obama criticized during the campaign for using ...
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