Posted on 01/17/2009 3:18:25 PM PST by ETL
From PoliticalWarfare.org...
Compañera Panetta, with Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega
January 10, 2009
This photo shows Chavez with his arm around
Linda Panetta, while former Sandinista junta leader
Daniel Ortega smiles on, at left. You saw it here first.
If the adult daughter of a CIA Director-designate hangs out with sworn enemies of the United States, it's a matter for the United States Senate to probe aggressively. And so the Senate really has to ask some very pointed questions about Linda Panetta, daughter of President-Elect Obama's pick to lead the CIA, and her ties to Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.
Linda Panetta is a noted anti-military activist who has accused the US military of teaching Latin American officers how to torture. She has also been close to causes hostile toward the United States and friendly to the old Soviet Union, and the regimes in Cuba, Venezuela and Iran.
As a leader of School of the Americas Watch, Panetta urged Chavez to cancel Venezuela's participation in the US military school for Latin American officers in Fort Benning, Georgia. Chavez agreed, and promptly did so. As such, Compañera Panetta helped sever an important link between the US and the Venezuelan officer corps. This is a big blow to US intelligence efforts in the hemisphere.
Perhaps Linda Panetta is a clever ploy to infiltrate the Chavez regime. Somehow I really doubt it. It looks more like the other way around.
This photo shows Chavez with his arm around Linda Panetta, while former Sandinista junta leader Daniel Ortega smiles on, at left. You saw it here first.
This says a few things about CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta. While a parent can't necessarily be blamed for his wayward children, we think senators should ask the nominee to be the next CIA chief about his daughter's support for sworn enemies of the United States. As a congressman, Panetta was pretty soft on the communist FMLN guerrillas in El Salvador, and Daniel Ortega's Marxist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. So father and daughter's views do coincide somewhat.
Certainly any prospective CIA intelligence analyst would be grilled pretty hard before getting a security clearance if it was known that his or her sister or daughter was an anti-US militant who aided and abetted Chavez and the Sandinistas. And even then he might not get a very high clearance. It's only fair to hold Leon Panetta to at least the same standards that apply to ordinary CIA analysts and operators.
The Senate has an obligation to nail down this problem when it considers confirming Leon Panetta to lead the CIA.
http://jmw.typepad.com/political_warfare/2009/01/daughter-of-next-cia-director-pals-with-chavez-and-ortega.html
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American Spectator seems to have picked up the story a few days later...
From The American Spectator...
Panetta's Daughter
By Philip Klein, Jan 14, 2009
J. Michael Waller argues that Linda Panetta's ties to Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez deserve more scrutiny as the Senate considers the nomination of her father, Leon Panetta, to be CIA director. I'm generally not too fond of making children into an issue, and am uncomfortable with the suggestion Waller makes here: "Perhaps Linda Panetta is a clever ploy to infiltrate the Chavez regime. Somehow I really doubt it. It looks more like the other way around." With that said, Waller does make a good point about at least asking questions about the relationship:
Certainly any prospective CIA intelligence analyst would be grilled pretty hard before getting a security clearance if it was known that his or her sister or daughter was an anti-US militant who aided and abetted Chavez and the Sandinistas. And even then he might not get a very high clearance. It's only fair to hold Leon Panetta to at least the same standards that apply to ordinary CIA analysts and operators.
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/01/14/panettas-daughter
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Please be aware of an upcoming event in Marsh Memorial Chapel at Springfield College. United Campus Ministry and Spiritual Life and the Springfield College Newman Community welcome Linda Panetta, photographer, social activist and daughter of former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, on February 12 at 7:30 pm. She will discuss her ongoing documentary and activist work in Central America and the Middle East.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AriseAction/messages/23741?xm=1&m=e&l=1
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From Linda Panneta's own website!
(opticalrealities.org):
Source: http://www.opticalrealities.org/
Folks, that's the daughter of our next CIA Chief in the arms of socialist dictator, enemy of the United States, Hugo Chavez!-ETL _____________________________________________________________________________
From National Public Radio (NPR), August 29, 2006:
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been visiting countries such as China, Iran and Russia as part of an effort to build a 'strategic alliance' of interests not beholden to the United States. He considers the United States his arch enemy.":
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5729764
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From CBS-News, July 29, 2006
"Chavez pledged that his country would 'stay by Iran at any time and under any condition,' state television reported. Ahmadinejad said he saw in Chavez a kindred spirit." "'We do not have any limitation in cooperation,' Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying. 'Iran and Venezuela are next to each other and supporters of each other. Chavez is a source of a progressive and revolutionary current in South America and his stance in restricting imperialism is tangible.'":
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/29/world/main1847331.shtml
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From the Russian News and Information Agency, July 27, 2006
"'I am determined to expand relations with Russia,' Chavez, known as an outspoken critic of what he calls the United States' unilateralism, told the Russian leader, adding that his determination stemmed from their shared vision of the global order.":
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060727/51913498.html
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Venezuela Set to Develop Nuclear Power With Russia
September 29, 2008
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Russia will help Venezuela develop nuclear energy — a move likely to raise U.S. concerns over increasingly close cooperation between Caracas and Moscow.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,429441,00.html
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Venezuela's Chavez welcomes Russian warships
Nov 25, 2008
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela – Russian warships arrived off Venezuela's coast Tuesday in a show of strength aimed at the United States as Moscow seeks to expand its influence in Latin America. The deployment is the first of its kind in the Caribbean since the Cold War and was timed to coincide with President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Caracas — the first ever by a Russian president.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081125/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_russia;_ylt=Aubowfbe9_MUlOufaFqMD.OMwfIE
Sad.
Most of the American people could care less about this at all right now. The Obama-ade is being passed around as we speak.
If that were my kid, it probably would keep me from working for the CIA.
Guilty of McCain criticism. Mostly because I believe that he's dangerous to our country. As posing as a "conservative Republican" he does significant damage to conservatives and politically unaware citizens who don't understand that killing the Republican party appears to be an inside job.
If Hillary, Holder and Geithner can breeze through their hearings, what makes you so sure that the Republicans will suddenly find a backbone?
Agreed! ETL you do great work! Thank you so much!
All of Obama’s friends and associates, political or otherwise, are tainted by criminal activities and or associations with the the dregs of corrupt politicians and world/societal leaders.
So what? Ronald Reagan’s daughter was an anti-military and anti-nuclear activist.
Oh my!
Has he already changed the name of this country?
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ACTIVIST LINDA PANETTA SPEAKS Linda Panetta, photojournalist, social activist, and daughter of former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, spoke about her work in Central America and the Middle East in a presentation entitled "Social Justice and Contemporary Society" on Monday, Feb. 12, in Marsh Memorial Chapel. Read more
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If you applied to the CIA and it was discovered your children were consorting with people like Chavez and Ortega you would be considered a security risk and likely not hired.
It’s not easy being red... or passing Obama’s questionnaire ping.
A+ as always.
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McCain is no prize especially is domestic views.
An old man on his way out.
Most who keep beating a dead horse don’t seem to mind
the danger to the country people like the Third Party candidates who all are in line with Obama and the far left
against the War on IslamOfascists.
They are all 9/11 Truthers, believing it was an inside job as the far left does.
Chuck Baldwin has stated the Lincoln was the worst Pres.
Bob Barr is for gay marriage, close Gitmo, amnesty.
legalize drugs.
These loons are the danger with some who think they support America are the same problem as Obama and his Marxist playmates.
If we don’t win the war we are in, it makes no difference where we stand on the economy.
They don’t make pockets in shrouds
Too bad there is not any way to bring these traitors to trial for giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Tokyo Rose was less traitorous than this bimbo.
Yes we can.
ACTIVIST LINDA PANETTA SPEAKS Linda Panetta, photojournalist, social activist, and daughter of former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, spoke about her work in Central America and the Middle East in a presentation entitled "Social Justice and Contemporary Society" on Monday, Feb. 12, in Marsh Memorial Chapel.Leads to
Activist Linda Panetta to Speak at Springfield College
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Feb. 8, 2007 – Linda Panetta, photojournalist, and social activist will speak about her work in Central America and the Middle East in a presentation entitled “Social Justice and Contemporary Society” on Monday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m., in Springfield College’s Marsh Memorial Chapel.Panetta’s work focuses on cultural, environmental, and human rights issues, with emphasis on conflict zones including Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other countries. She is the founder of the School of the Americas Watch/Northeast, a grassroots organization concerned about the military training facility at Ft. Benning, Ga. She also is coordinator of the Jean Donovan Community Peace Center, which hosts the Mariposa Outreach Project, a mentoring program for survivors of torture and their families.
Panetta also has produced and directed “An Insider Speaks Out,” a short documentary film detailing the inner workings of the School of the Americas, including footage from South America and Ft. Benning.
The program is cosponsored by Springfield College’s Newman Community and the United Campus Ministry and Spiritual Life Center.
All in the name of hope and change, stupid is as stupid....
This should be a really big deal. It should be an immediate disqualifier. It’s a tremendous vulnerability. As someone who has a high level clearance, I have seen severe action taken on acquaintances for much less. An undocumented trip to Tijuana to toss back a few is enough to get MY clearance yanked.
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