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...were alarmed by what they saw as Blair's interference in the agency's operations. "For some, this was an existential threat. If Blair was allowed to control covert ops, then how long before the whole of the CIA was absorbed into the DNI?" says a former operations official who retired from the agency last year. "Everyone was looking to Panetta to prevent that from happening." (See who's who on the CIA payroll...
...debate must feel familiar to Casey, who watched his father, former Pennsylvania governor Robert P. Casey, battle with President Bill Clinton and Planned Parenthood over his pro-life stance. Governor Casey successfully defended his tightening of Pennsylvania's abortion policies all the way to the Supreme Court, and would likely have challenged Clinton for the 1996 presidential nomination if his health hadn't suddenly deteriorated (he died in 2000 at the age of 68, seven years after receiving heart and lung transplants). And so now, the son of the man often called the father of pro-life Democrats finds himself...
...Took over as Prime Minister in 2004 after India's Congress Party, led by Sonia Gandhi - the Italian-born widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi - took power in landslide elections. Singh is the first non-Hindu to hold the position...
...Pakistan. China, with its booming economy and position as America's primary creditor, now carries far more weight in U.S. calculations. "The ground reality is India at the moment does not count for the U.S. in the same way that China and Pakistan do," says Bahukutumbi Raman, a former top Indian intelligence official and head of the Centre for Topical Studies in Chennai...
...Presidents have reserved for visiting heads of state have been retained since the 19th century, and the first dinner hosted by Michelle and Barack Obama is a highly anticipated event: some 400 guests are expected to attend. So who's getting all this attention? A beturbaned 77-year-old former economist, who in May was sworn in for his second term as leader of the world's second most populous country and its largest democracy. Singh's visit comes on the heels of Obama's first visit to Asia - a trip that did not include a stop in India...