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...months before the Sept. 11 attacks, Gupta joined CNN and has since provided on-the-spot medical analysis on news events ranging from the anthrax attacks to Vice President Cheney's heart problems and the aftermath of the tsunami in Sri Lanka in 2004. In 2003 he traveled to Iraq and Kuwait, where he joined the U.S. Navy's medical unit and performed brain surgery on several patients...
...best-served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time." The dilemma Obama faced - and perhaps the reason he chose someone from outside the spy community - is that he needs a C.I.A. director untainted by the Bush Administration's policies on torture and its handling of the Iraq War. Panetta is certainly untarred in that respect, but in order to have a chance to manage the country's intelligence-gathering apparatus, he'll have to get through a potentially difficult confirmation process to be headed by Feinstein...
...member of the Iraq Study Group along with Robert Gates before Gates became Defense Secretary - a post he will keep in the new Obama Administration...
...flexible and wants to get the job done. He always asked incisive questions, and knows what went wrong in Iraq." - on Robert Gates, when he replaced Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense, San Jose Mercury News...
...pictures of the U.S. troops' five years in Iraq...