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Why Panetta? The Gates Factor

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan found this 1/6/2009 on blogs.tnr.com

Leon Panetta seemed to come out of nowhere as Obama's CIA pick. But as the insta-reporting notes, he was a member of the 2006 Iraq Study Group team. Another member of that panel was Defense Secretary Robert Gates--who is himself a former CIA director, remember. Bob Woodward's latest book, The ...