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Obama to Name Leon Panetta as Head of CIA
Fox ^ | 1/5/2009 | Fox

Posted on 01/05/2009 11:49:56 AM PST by Red in Blue PA

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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.


161 posted on 01/05/2009 8:30:21 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: Clintonfatigued; TitansAFC; fieldmarshaldj; Perdogg; Impy
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.
162 posted on 01/05/2009 8:43:44 PM PST by Norman Bates (Steele for RNC)
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To: Norman Bates

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


163 posted on 01/05/2009 8:49:12 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (If greed is a virtue, than corporate socialism is conservative)
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To: PhilDragoo

Thanks for the ping!


164 posted on 01/05/2009 8:54:25 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Erik Latranyi
"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

165 posted on 01/05/2009 9:19:58 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: mware
"DiFi out of the loop."

Wrong cultural affiliation.

yitbos

166 posted on 01/05/2009 9:26:03 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: umgud

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


167 posted on 01/05/2009 9:51:01 PM PST by 1L
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To: Clintonfatigued; Norman Bates

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.


168 posted on 01/05/2009 10:46:54 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: TheWasteLand
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?

169 posted on 01/05/2009 10:55:30 PM PST by wastedyears (In Canada, Santa says "Ho Ho, eh?")
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To: Mouton

Puñetta?


170 posted on 01/05/2009 11:05:36 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: A.A. Cunningham
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).

171 posted on 01/05/2009 11:08:27 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: umgud

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.


172 posted on 01/06/2009 3:19:11 AM PST by romanesq
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To: mware

“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?


173 posted on 01/06/2009 3:26:20 AM PST by romanesq
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To: freebird5850

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.


174 posted on 01/06/2009 4:51:13 AM PST by XenaLee
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To: Red in Blue PA

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.


175 posted on 01/06/2009 4:52:30 AM PST by SueRae
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To: A.A. Cunningham

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


176 posted on 01/06/2009 4:55:31 AM PST by XenaLee
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To: InvisibleChurch

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.


177 posted on 01/06/2009 5:18:22 AM PST by XenaLee
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To: winoneforthegipper

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


178 posted on 01/06/2009 6:07:15 AM PST by SueRae
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To: PurpleMan
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.

179 posted on 01/06/2009 6:18:34 AM PST by Neverforget01
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To: Neverforget01

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


180 posted on 01/06/2009 6:33:54 AM PST by PurpleMan
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