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Panetta Gets Mixed Reaction From CIA Officials
ABC News ^
| Jan. 6, 2009
| LUIS MARTINEZ
Posted on 01/06/2009 6:12:52 AM PST by Malone LaVeigh
Leon Panetta, President-elect Barack Obama's pick to head the CIA, could be "a fabulous choice" to lead the agency or a nominee who is inexperienced with intelligence matters and will have a chilling effect on the agency, according to top former CIA officials.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bhocia; cia; leonpanetta; obama; obamaregime; obamatransitionfile; panetta
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Panetta was also praised by ex-CIA director George Tenet, according to a former intelligence official familiar with the views of the former CIA chief. The official said Tenet "believes Panetta is an excellent nomination."
Can't get a better endorsement than that. /sarc
To: Malone LaVeigh
Prolly not there to run it. Rather, tear it down.
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posted on
01/06/2009 6:15:29 AM PST
by
ryan71
To: Malone LaVeigh
The trial balloon was deflated within minutes.
So much for the smooth transition.
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posted on
01/06/2009 6:15:56 AM PST
by
Carley
To: Malone LaVeigh
Panetta will do whatever Bubba says...This IS the 3rd Bubba presidency.
Hillary must love her new position...All top secret!! The public will never know a gosh darn thing...except what they want to put out.
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posted on
01/06/2009 6:16:00 AM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
To: Malone LaVeigh
“Either he’ll surprise us, or turn out to be exactly what we expect of him.”
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posted on
01/06/2009 6:16:13 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
To: ryan71
Man, wait’ll Mitch Rapp hears about this!
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posted on
01/06/2009 6:16:47 AM PST
by
RexBeach
To: Malone LaVeigh
This promises to be the worst appointment to head an intelligence agency since Stalin installed Nikolai Yezhov to head the NKVD.
To: ryan71
That’s what I think. He’s a stool pigeon.
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posted on
01/06/2009 6:19:22 AM PST
by
sarasota
To: Sacajaweau
I guess the Clinton’s finally got hold of Obama’s real birth
certificate?
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posted on
01/06/2009 6:22:29 AM PST
by
Dr. Ursus
To: Malone LaVeigh
Panetta will be welcomed with open arms by the “Valerie Plame” wing of the CIA.
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posted on
01/06/2009 6:23:03 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
To: Malone LaVeigh
My guess is most in the CIA will bite their tongues until bloody rather than risk dismissal for criticizing this fool.
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posted on
01/06/2009 6:24:27 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Resist the Obamination!)
To: Sacajaweau
Hillary must love her new position...All top secret!! The public will never know a gosh darn thing...except what they want to put out. Just like her first two terms as Shadow President. She had an office in the same wing as the President, and ran things while Slick was off not having sex.
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posted on
01/06/2009 6:24:57 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
To: Malone LaVeigh
The Clintonites are amassing an awful lot of power.
Scary.
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posted on
01/06/2009 6:25:59 AM PST
by
varon
(Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
To: Sacajaweau
And I bet that Penetta gives more intel info to Hillary than to Odumbo.
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posted on
01/06/2009 6:27:09 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Malone LaVeigh
With Hillary as SoS and Panetta as CIA Director, ole Slick can keep his Arab and other muslim ‘foundation donors’ well informed.
To: Malone LaVeigh
Another Clintonista. Is there a thought in Obama’s head that Bill and Hillary haven’t put there?
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posted on
01/06/2009 6:28:09 AM PST
by
Not A Snowbird
(Go, Sonics! And take the Seahawks with you.)
To: RexBeach
I'm reading (actually listening to)
Extreme Measures now.
Makes me look forward to the morning commute ;)
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posted on
01/06/2009 6:30:20 AM PST
by
NY.SS-Bar9
(DR #1692)
To: varon
“The Clintonites are amassing an awful lot of power.
Scary.” And they are not accountable to the electorate .
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posted on
01/06/2009 6:32:51 AM PST
by
Chgogal
(Don't look at me. You elected them, Comrade!)
To: Malone LaVeigh
Leon Panetta was White House Chief of Staff while an intern was alone in the Oval Office showing her thong to the President of the United States. Can someone honestly tell me he didn’t know about that at the time? If not, why is he not too much the bungling nitwit to run CIA?
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posted on
01/06/2009 6:37:21 AM PST
by
advance_copy
(Stand for life or nothing at all)
To: varon
The Clintonites are amassing an awful lot of power.Just wait until Obama crosses them on something, they the stuff will hit the fan. It'll happen after the opening scripted plays are through. Give it 6 to 9 months...
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posted on
01/06/2009 6:40:30 AM PST
by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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