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...director, Leon Panetta, told journalists that it was important to know how the global economic downturn is affecting the stability and foreign policies of key U.S. allies and rivals, especially China, Russia and countries in Latin America. He singled out Argentina, Ecuador and Venezuela as countries in particularly dire straits. The briefing will also be shared with "key players in the Administration." The objective, Panetta said, is to "give policymakers a feel for what's going on ... so they can use it [in decision-making...
...What happens in the economy and what's happening as a result of that is affecting the stability of the world," Panetta said. "As an intelligence agency, we've got to pay attention to that because we have to know whether or not the economic impacts in China or Russia or any place else are influencing the policies of those countries when it comes to foreign affairs and when it comes to the issues that we care about...
...first briefing to journalists since being sworn in last week, Panetta reiterated his opposition to the use of torture to extract information from terrorism suspects. He said the Army Field Manual "gives us all the capabilities we need to interrogate." He said he would not personally order any so-called enhanced interrogation techniques used during the Bush Administration. Although the President has the power to authorize such techniques, Panetta said he would not recommend them to Obama...
...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...