Word: panetta
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...About the time incoming CIA director Leon Panetta sits down in his seventh-floor office to assume his new duties, he can count on the phone ringing off the hook - the Senate and House congressional intelligence committees will demand blood from anyone without a lily-white record. The pressure to join in a witch hunt is going to seem irresistible to Panetta...
...advice to Mr. Panetta: resist it. This country cannot afford to turn the CIA into a Boy Scout troop. And there is a quick and easy fix to CIA staffing. Iraq and Afghanistan are grossly overstaffed with good, capable officers. These people are more than adequate to run the CIA's posts around the world. Having so many people in Iraq and Afghanistan was a Bush White House decision. Cut back in those two countries by two-thirds and the CIA will do just fine...
Emanuel was also blamed for the Obama team's failure to notify incoming Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein before leaking the choice of former Congressman Leon Panetta for Central Intelligence Agency director--a gesture that might have averted Feinstein's huffy declaration that she would have preferred an "intelligence professional...
Obama, Barack •choice of Leon Panetta by as CIA chief fails to garner unanimous support...
...Whether it's Mr. Panetta or someone else, it's critical that the agency move in a new direction.' Representative PETER HOEKSTRA, ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, saying Panetta's civilian background would bring a much needed "change in culture...