Obama to Name Leon Panetta as Head of CIA

Fox ^ | 1/5/2009 | Fox

[PhilDragoo]

CLINTON TIES TO IPS :Institute For Policy Studies, Communist front otganization

DISCOVER THE NETWORKS: INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES (IPS)

Institute for Policy Studies by The Heritage Foundation Staff

What at first appears a laughable mismatch of inexperience with hot-seat importance, upon closer examination is clearly the compromising, neutralizing, and politicization by the Left of the premier national intelligence agency.

Panetta is a tool of the Left--his confirmation makes CIA a tool of the Left.

Panetta has been a member of the pro-communist front IPS.

[Norman Bates]

This is the rough political equivalent of a GOP President nominating Ken Starr to be CIA director. Can you imagine the outcry on the left if that were to happen? In fact, I'm sure Mr. Starr would be a much finer director than that ringleader of the those three amigos - John Podesta, Lanny Davis, and himself.

[Clintonfatigued]

In what way is Panetta qualified for this post? Maybe he’ll be a figurehead and marginalized by the regular intelligence community.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[bruinbirdman]

"Who’s left from the Clinton Admin? "

Mickey Kantor, Henry Cisneros, Alexis Herman, Mike Espy, Warren Christopher, Joycelyn Elders among the better known. Where's Carol Browner? Little Dick Morris? Stuffitupyournoseolis? Jorge Cabrerra?

yitbos

[bruinbirdman]

"DiFi out of the loop."

Wrong cultural affiliation.

yitbos

[1L]

So? Obama has no experience doing anything himself, either.

[Impy]

I don’t think he even served on the Intelligence Committee.

Perhaps I could see him in the allegedly administrative DNI post but not this.

This move is stinky.

[wastedyears]

In 1964 he joined the United States Army as a Second Lieutenant. There he received the Army Commendation Medal, and was discharged in 1966 as a Captain..

Can somebody explain how that's possible?

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Puñetta?

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Panetta had plenty of experience running covert ops for Slick Willie while he was Chief of Staff.

Well then, we can call him Leon Puñetta... (check the Spanish).

[romanesq]

The insipid Left has demanded that CIA be led by no one with any experience... in the CIA.

Because the CIA is evil, don’t ya know. Must get some public policy fathead in there who knows nothing about it.

We don’t want America’s enemies losing any sleep. And this guarantees they won’t.

[romanesq]

“Just heard on Fox News that Diana Finestein was not given a heads up on Obama’s pick. She is upset and said that she believes the cia pick must have intelligence background.”

Nice that Diane’s ego is all in a tizzy. And she has the perfect logical reason to oppose this and stop it in its tracks.

But will she?

[XenaLee]

You mean....it only makes it easier for our enemies to topple us. And they will...now. We will never get the chance to “topple” the DemocRats again.

[SueRae]

Bob Gates must be rolling his eyes. Good grief.

One of the mysteries of the Bush administration(to me, anyway) is the resignation of Porter Goss. I liked him very much. The CIA needs a lot of scrubbing and I thought he was the guy that could do it.

Panetta is NOT the guy.

[XenaLee]

Yeah, but covert ops operations of hiding the bimbos from Hillary hardly qualifies him for running the CIA.

[XenaLee]

The libs are too stupid to enjoy the irony. The irony that they will be incinerated/nuked right alongside us, their political enemies. They’ll also be too stupid to realize that they are responsible.

[SueRae]

Interesting reading. There’s much we will never know.

[Neverforget01]

You do realize Bush 41 was appointed well before 9/11?

Panetta is nothing more than a party hack. We can't afford to have a non-intel guy in this position.

[PurpleMan]

I was just noting the career similarities (as others on the other side will as well)