yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/6/2009
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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. Some Senate Democrats aren’t happy :
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/6/2009
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Just spoke to Sen. Ron Wyden's (D-OR) office,
where a spokeswoman confirmed what was hinted at this...
morning : Wyden had been in contact with the Obama transition team to discuss the Leon Panetta nomination, while incoming Senate intelligence chairman ...
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Obama Team Consulted Wyden on Panetta Pick -- But Shut ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 1/6/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
"Ishmael Jones" is a former deep-cover officer with
the Central Intelligence Agency. He is author of The...
Human Factor: Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture, published last year by Encounter Books. I asked him overnight what he thought ...
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Panetta a 'Brave' Choice, Says Former CIA Agent
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 ...
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The Opposition To Panetta
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You need experience for this stuff?
QandO —
Hey, why not Leon "We have intelligence agencies?" Panetta for Director of the CIA? After all we have Barack "Who says you need experience?" Obama making the selection and Caroline "Hey, I’m a Kennedy, what more do you need?" Schlossberg under serious consideration for a Senate seat. Why not Leon "What does a spy look like?" Panetta for CIA? Because, you know: On the merits, this idea that the CIA Director needs to be a career intelligence professional seems to have been pulled out of thin air.Oh, for sure ...
Leon Panetta
Comments from Left Field —
... Matthew Yglesias thinks it would have been nice if Feinstein and Rockefeller had questioned the president’s intelligence judgments back in 2003: ...
Playing Panetta politics
Political Animal —
... , I don't much care. The head of the CIA should come from within the agency? At least six recent CIA chiefs didn't. Panetta doesn't have a background in national security intelligence? Nonsense, as White House chief of staff and an ISG member, Panetta dealt with the very sensitive intelligence ...
It’s Calvinball season
Balloon Juice —
... Calvinball season is in full swing: there has been much gnashing of teeth over the fact that Leon Panetta is not a career intelligence person, but the career intel rule seems to have been invented over the past few days. Matt Y notes: ...
1/7: Standing Up For Panetta
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... the pick. Matthew Yglesias writes: "Not to be mean about this, but I wish Sens Feinstein and Rockefeller had shown such concern about pushing back against the executive branch on intelligence matters back when, as members of the Intelligence Committee, both decided to back the invasion of Iraq rather than doing their jobs and calling attention to the problems with the intelligence the administration was presenting." PANETTA: Standing Up To The Critics Liberal bloggers are fiercely defending Obama's ...
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Why Feinstein broke with Obama on Panetta
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Leon Panetta as CIA Director
outsidethebeltway.com 1/6/2009 — Leon E. Panetta, the former congressman and White House chief of staff. (Kevin Wolf/Associated Press)
When I saw the news yesterday afternoon that Leon Panetta was Barack Obama’s pick to head the CIA, I decided to hold off on posting and go ...
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 ...
Panetta Hearing: You Don’t Need to Torture in the ‘Ticking Bomb’ Case
washingtonindependent.com 2/6/2009 — CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta took on a right-wing myth head on, saying that even in the hypothetical “ticking bomb case” — OMG there’s a bomb hidden in Times Square that this detainee knows about we better waterboard him or everyone will die ...
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 ...
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