Senate Confirms Panetta As CIA Director
npr.org 2/13/2009 — The Senate confirmed Leon Panetta as director of the CIA on Thursday, placing the nation's top spy agency in the hands of a government veteran valued for his skills as a lawmaker and policy manager rather than as an expert at intelligence-gathering ...

Panetta Confirmation Hearing: Obama's CIA Pick Says He Wants Answers
huffingtonpost.com 2/5/2009 — WASHINGTON — CIA Director nominee Leon Panetta says the CIA interrogators who used waterboarding or other harsh techniques against prisoners on the authority of the White House should not be prosecuted. Panetta told a Senate panel on ...

The Associated Press: Panetta: No one to be punished for interrogations
google.com 3/5/2009 — 15 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) CIA Director Leon Panetta says agency employees who took part in harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects are not in danger of being punished. Panetta delivered that message to CIA employees in an e-mail Thursday, ...

Panetta, rendition and torture
newshoggers.com 2/7/2009 — by Jay McDonough Leon Panetta, Barack Obama's Central Intelligence Agency Director nominee, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday. Senators questioned Mr. Panetta about two subjects in particular; the use of rendition and ...

Panetta Confirmed
politicalwire.com 2/13/2009 — The U.S. Senate confirmed Leon Panetta as director of the CIA, "placing the nation's top spy agency in the hands of a government veteran valued for his skills as a lawmaker and policy manager rather than an expert at intelligence-gathering and ...

Is Leon Panetta Covering Up Torture?
thedailybeast.com 4/8/2009 — Why doesn t Leon Panetta want the CIA investigated or prosecuted for torture allegations? Maybe because some of the men implicated, John Sifton reports, are the ones advising him. On Monday night the confidential report of the International Committee ...

Leon Panetta Gets a Rock Star Welcome at CIA Headquarters
blogs.wsj.com 2/20/2009 — Siobhan Gorman reports on intelligence matters. So much for fears that Leon Panetta would be seen as an outsider at the Central Intelligence Agency because didn’t grow up through the spy ranks. The new CIA director and former Clinton ...

Panetta: No Prosecutions For CIA Torturers
newshoggers.com 2/7/2009 — By Cernig The AP reports that CIA Director-nominee Leon Panetta has stated categorically that there will be no prosecutions for torturers . Asked by The Associated Press if that was official policy, Panetta said, "That is the case." It was ...

Obama names Panetta for CIA (AP)
news.yahoo.com 1/9/2009 — AP - President-elect Barack Obama has introduced his choices for CIA chief — Leon Panetta — and national intelligence director — retired Adm. Dennis Blair.

CIA nominee Panetta: 'We've got to move forward' (AP)
news.yahoo.com 2/6/2009 — AP - The man nominated to head the CIA, Leon Panetta, says it's time for the agency to move ahead, not to dwell on the harsh treatment of foreign detainees in the previous administration.

Senate committee backs Panetta as CIA chief — CNN.com - Politics 2/11/2009
The Senate Intelligence Committee voted unanimously Wednesday to send the nomination of Leon Panetta as CIA director to the full Senate for confirmation.