Leon Panetta Tapped To Head CIA
(AP)
Panetta, 70, was President Clinton’s chief of staff from 1994 to 1997 and represented the 16th District of California in the House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.
Panetta has no direct experience in intelligence. He did serve on the Iraq Study Group, which released a report in late 2006 laying out recommendations for changing course on the Iraq war.
Panetta and his wife Sylvia currently direct the Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy at California State University, Monterey Bay, a university he helped establish, according to the Associated Press.
Posted by rightbehind
nope, she spent too much time inside too.
Posted by rightbehind
Do not be fooled: anyone in ops that long has friends in those closets. The only reason she is outside is because Bush Cheney wanted to spank her husband. I am not convinced she''s any more an "outsider" than any of the others. And we do NOT need an Ops person in charge under any circumstance.
Weep Republicans.
LOTS TO CLEAN UP. Good Choice considering the Bush dynasty entrails throughout the CIA, but in no way an enviable task.
Obama has made some good choices so far, but this one was awful.
Panetta has no experience and no clue how to do the job.
My sense is most employees at the CIA winced hard and said ***? when they heard this one.
Posted by AlanW1077
Not the analysts who are sick of the ops community running the show and not the military intel community who have viewed CIA as dysfunctional for years. It would have been great to have someone with an intel career in the job but there clearly wasn''t anyone.
Obama has made some good choices so far, but this one was awful.
Panetta has no experience and no clue how to do the job.
My sense is most employees at the CIA winced hard and said ***? when they heard this one.
Posted by AlanW1077
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Experience, experience, when you look at recent history, what can you say for those WITH experience, and what they have done??
Leon Panetta has a very positive record as a former member of the U.S House of Representatives, Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget; and, as Chief of Staff to President Clinton.
By the way, he has previous, responsible, "intelligence community experience" while serving with the U.S. Army; and, the White House Chief of Staff is certainly part of the %u201Cintelligence community.%u201D
Most important, however, Leon Panetta was the main person responsible for balancing the budget. Also, as Chief of Staff, he made day to day White House operations work more smoothly, through better management.
Leon Panetta''''s reputation and credentials are flawless. Plus, he is a very good person, to boot!
He has an excellent record of cutting costs and doing an outstanding job at whatever the task.
Although he is an ''outsider'' in the intelligence community, Leon Panetta does not carry past CIA baggage.
Therefore, he is an excellent choice to manage the activities of the CIA.
"was a consumer of intelligence information at the White House"
This is a dreadful appointment at a time when our country is at Risk.
What is Obama thinking? Where''s the change he promised us? Gone already!
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by harbinger09
January 6, 2009 10:09 AM PST
- Hmmmmm. Looks like he is Mafia connected on one hand, on the other, he looks like that cross dresser from M.A.S. H
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See all 19 CommentsSo far, Obama has been largely paying his respects to the old Democratic political machine--no wonder the Super Delegates backed him and felt no threat from the "change" he said he would bring.