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Obama, Barack •choice of Leon Panetta by as CIA chief fails to garner unanimous support...
...Leon Panetta Bill Clinton's former top aide is reportedly the pick for CIA chief, a role some say should be reserved for agency veterans...
...believe the agency is best served by having an intelligence professional in charge.' DIANNE FEINSTEIN, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, questioning President-elect Barack Obama for choosing former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to head...
...Leon knows when to be aggressive and conciliatory, how to pick off members, isolate them, close a deal. He knows where to settle, when, and all the intermediate judgments." - Howard Paster, former White House legislative liaison, New Yorker, July...
...Leon Panetta may not have an intelligence background, but his appointment as CIA director shows that Barack Obama understands the CIA's problems. As a former White House chief of staff, Clinton Administration budget director and eight-term California Congressman, Panetta knows his way around Washington better than most people, and that kind of knowledge is exactly what the CIA needs right...