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...retired operations official says he feels at least a little sympathy for Panetta - and worries about the legacy he will leave his successor. "No matter how this thing works its way out," he says, "who in the world would want to be the next director of the CIA...
...original version of this story has been updated to incorporate comments from the CIA...
...TIME's CIA covers...
...little more than an idea - and not rushed to inform Congress. But others, like Zegart, say Panetta's political chops may have saved the agency from even greater criticism. In any case, she says, "we don't know the counterfactual: How much worse would it have been [for the CIA] if Panetta was not the director?" (See the top 10 unfortunate political one-liners...
...daunting challenge for Panetta now, say the retired officials, is to get the Democrats to quit poking around the agency's past and focus on its future. "There's been too much discussion about what the CIA did in 2002-03, and not enough about what needs to be done in 2010-11," says a former official...