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Controversial ex-CIA director named to spy panel (John Deutch)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 2/5/09 | Pamela Hess and Anne Flaherty - ap

Posted on 02/05/2009 9:00:00 PM PST by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON – National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair has asked former CIA Director John Deutch, who was stripped of his security clearance nearly a decade ago for mishandling classified information, to sit on an advisory panel on spy satellites, a lawmaker said Thursday.

Deutch, CIA director from May 1995 to December 1996 in the Clinton administration, stored and processed hundreds of files of highly classified material on unprotected home computers that he and family members also used to connect to the Internet, according to an internal CIA investigation. The Defense Department's inspector general found similar conduct during Deutch's prior service at the Pentagon.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ciadirector; controversial; johndeutch; spypanel

1 posted on 02/05/2009 9:00:01 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Not only is he a lobbyist he lost his security clearance.


2 posted on 02/05/2009 9:03:13 PM PST by NoLibZone (Obama is 6% Black.50% White the rest Arab. He looks dark because he is 100% full of shit.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Great. Mr “I dont have a clue about security”

This is the asshat that was plugging into the internet at home with a CIA laptop?


3 posted on 02/05/2009 9:07:48 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: NormsRevenge
What's next? Sandy Burglar in charge of border security?

Susan McDougal named commissar of prisons?

4 posted on 02/05/2009 9:25:45 PM PST by what's up
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To: NormsRevenge

You think they can’t get any dumber and they do.


5 posted on 02/05/2009 9:40:25 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Why doesn't BO just put Bill and Hillary back in charge and let them have a "Do Over".

GGGGRRRRRRRRRR!!!!! Barry is beyond clueless when it comes to security. What is going to take to get a vote of "No Confidence" for this loser. Sigh*

6 posted on 02/05/2009 9:51:39 PM PST by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: NormsRevenge

I imagine he needs some new material for a “book.”


7 posted on 02/05/2009 10:04:25 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ( Elections have consequences.)
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