sfgate.com - 1/7/2009
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Feinstein - the new chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who will oversee Panetta's confirmation hearings - raised eyebrows when she expressed surprisingly sharp disapproval of Panetta as nominee for CIA chief on Monday. She said that "the agency is best served by having an ...
thehill.com - 1/7/2009
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Democrats must be “very, very careful” to avoid
overreaching and will not rubber-stamp President-elect Obama’s policies, Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday. In an interview with The Hill, Reid said it is essential for Obama and ...
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Reid: ‘I don’t work for Obama’
nypost.com - 1/7/2009
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Last updated: 12:51 am January 7, 2009 Posted:
12:36 am January 7, 2009 WOULD you ask your
accountant to perform brain surgery on your child? That's the closest analogy I can find to the choice of Democratic Party hack Leon Panetta to head the CIA. ...
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AN AWFUL PICK - New York Post
slate.com - 1/7/2009
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Leon Panetta. Click image to expand. Leon Panetta
The puzzler of the hour: Why is Barack Obama
picking Leon Panetta , a former congressman and White House official with no intelligence experience, to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency? ...
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Why Obama picked Panetta to run the CIA. - By Fred ...
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Newspaper Roundup for Jan. 7, 2009
CNSNews.com Headlines —
... cappuccino bill: $67,000 Washington Times: Market indicators inch up Washington Times: Jeb Bush won't run for Senate Says it's 'not right time' for elective office Christian Science Monitor: A crime newspaper flourishes by printing mug shots The Slammer Fox News/AP: Congressman Wants to Reschedule Congress Around College Football Game Fox News: Sen. Feinstein Breaks With Democrats to Back Burris Appointment San Francisco Chronicle: Why Feinstein broke with Obama on Panetta Washington Times: Donor in Richardson probe also gave to ...
Picking a Fight
Neptunus Lex —
... President-elect Barack Obama - who has notably more disciplined in assembling a transition cabinet than was Clinton - has already discovered that having majorities in both Congressional chambers may not in itself ensure smooth relations between the executive and legislature, apparently calculates that the time may be right to ...
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A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days —
So, it would appear that the Obama transition operation is not as adroit as we might have thought . I can't imagine why the President-elect would have been taken by surprise by the notion that if you don't inform the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee of your choice for DCI, she might get a mite upset. I mean, given all of those many years that the President-elect spent in the Senate, he obviously would have known . . . oh, wait, he barely even got his feet wet in the Senate pool, didn't he?
Brushback
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
So, it would appear that the Obama transition operation is not as adroit as we might have thought.
I can’t imagine why the President-elect would have been taken by surprise by the notion that if you don’t inform the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee of your choice for DCI, she might get a mite upset. I mean, given all of those many years that the President-elect spent in the Senate, he obviously would have known . . . oh, wait, he barely even got his feet wet in the Senate pool, didn’t he? ...
Boxer: Panetta a “Wonderful Leader”
Firedoglake —
Choosing not to back her California colleague's Panetta pique, Senator Barbara Boxer told the SF Chronicle that President-Elect Obama "took the right approach" in choosing an outsider to run the CIA. ...
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Questions for Panetta
weeklystandard.com 1/16/2009 — Eli Lake has an excellent piece in the Washington Times today sifting through Leon Panetta's record on rendition as Clinton's chief of staff. Panetta, Obama's nominee to head the CIA, will face confirmation hearings next week. As Lake points out, ...
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redstate.com 1/10/2009 — Thus far, defenders of Director-designate of Central Intelligence Leon Panetta make the following points in defense of the proposition that he would make a good DCI:
In response to arguments that Panetta is not experienced, Panettaphiles tell us ...
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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 ...
Cheney Responds to Panetta
weeklystandard.com 6/15/2009 — Dick Cheney released a statement responded to CIA Director Leon Panetta's suggestion that the former vice president's criticism of Obama administration policies means Cheney is wishing for another attack.
"I hope my old friend Leon was misquoted. ...
CIA Panetta's fees: Defense, banking
swamppolitics.com 2/5/2009 — by Mark Silva
Another senior-level and sensitive appointee of the Obama administration may be facing questions over his work in the private sector:
Leon Panetta, the president's nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency and ...
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 ...
Will Leon Panetta be the next body under Obama's bus?
latimesblogs.latimes.com 2/5/2009 — It's been a bumpy few days on the new Obama Administration bus, what with all the bodies throwing themselves under the shiny chassis -- Tom Daschle , Nancy Killefer and the ones yet to come from the transition team that missed the ...
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