Posted on 08/24/2009 8:45:10 AM PDT by mojito
A "profanity-laced screaming match" at the White House involving CIA Director Leon Panetta, and the expected release today of another damning internal investigation, has administration officials worrying about the direction of its newly-appoint intelligence team, current and former senior intelligence officials tell ABC News.com.
Amid reports that Panetta had threatened to quit just seven months after taking over at the spy agency, other insiders tell ABCNews.com that senior White House staff members are already discussing a possible shake-up of top national security officials.
"You can expect a larger than normal turnover in the next year," a senior adviser to Obama on intelligence matters told ABCNews.com.
Since 9/11, the CIA has had five directors or acting directors.
A White House spokesperson, Denis McDonough, said reports that Panetta had threatened to quit and that the White House was seeking a replacement were "inaccurate."
According to intelligence officials, Panetta erupted in a tirade last month during a meeting with a senior White House staff member. Panetta was reportedly upset over plans by Attorney General Eric Holder to open a criminal investigation of allegations that CIA officers broke the law in carrying out certain interrogation techniques that President Obama has termed "torture."
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Well both Hitler and Mussiolini were socialists. Nazi stands for German National Workers Socialist Party. Facist/Socialist are merely different sides of the same coin.
upi wpont= you won’t
in the early days of the Nazi movement in Germany, the Brown Shirts would harass and terrorize people. They were often apprehended by the police and brought to court and charged with crimes. The courts (most, not all) were, however sympathetic to their cause and beliefs and therefore only delivered token punishments to those actually convicted of crimes. The perps were often given time served and released to do more mayhem.
fast forward to the New Black Panther Party intimidation of voters in Philly....and the decision by the new Attorney General of the US to not prosecute...but instead, to seek an injuction to prevent them from doing this again....and of course the injunction is meaningless, since the activities injuncted are illegal anyway and no injunction is needed....its prosecution that is required.
what is happening?
you tell me.
You know, when I participated in Rush’s Operation Chaos, I made some good friends with Hillary supporters (I know, I know) who left the Democrat Party after many years. These chicks were bra-burners. I think Obama has created a bigger rift in the Democrat Party than there currently exists in the Republican Party between conservatives and moderates. I know many PUMAs who voted for McCain, volunteered for his campaign, and STILL have no intention of returning to the Democrat Party. They feel homeless, politically speaking.
I think the Democrats are going to be very surprised come 2010 when they find that they can’t count on the support of their usually loyal, bra-burning, NOW membership.
You left out a word: POLITICIAN The man is a true American politician and the problem with that is that he is also by nature a bureaucrat, not a leader. An agency like the CIA has to be run by a professional SPY. At least somebody with a background in the intelligence community and also preferably in the military spectrum of dark operations. Panetta was chosen by OOOOH BABY because he is a political lapdog to the administration and can be counted on to keep them from going into rogue territory without "official authorization" as a Good Shepherd at times, must, to protect the republic...
That's why CIA has been largely hamstrung since the 1970s infamous Church committee, headed by Democrap Frank Church, who gutted CIA and their "on the ground" spy cabilities were never really allowed to rebound. That's why they were on their butts for most of the acts of terror we saw in the years leading up to 911. The choice was for a clean ELINT versus a dirty and bloody HUMINT. ELINT: Electronic Intelligence (Big Brother in the sky) HUMINT: Good old fashioned spycraft. Infiltrate and destroy from within. Dirty stinkin' business. But critical to the survival of the nation. Dems got no guts for it and that's why we suffered all the terror attacks we have had, here and overseas.
Look at his last official posting: Head of the TSA. It was largely Panetta that drove the move to restrict pilots from keeping firearms on the flight deck and largely Panetta that dragged his heels in their reinstatement after 911 when the Flight Deck Federal Officer program was created at the behest of Congress, including some of the biggest antigunners out there like Diane Feinstein. He is an antigun politician and for him there was no reconciling the possible benefits for having many largely military trained pilots to be armed in the cockpit. But it would have stopped the 911 attacks, cold. Panetta didn't care and still doesn't. To have HIM running CIA makes my blood run cold. With him at the helm of CIA, we are far more likely to suffer an attack on home soil that will make 911 look like a day at the beach.
Looks like it’s time for Penatta and the CIA to send a couple of guys over to Kenya to get the BC. Coming to a post office near you.;~)
Great post, ETL. Wow. Biggy Bump.
Time will tell. I’m not willing to give him that much credit, yet. I think he’s a rather stupid, weak little puppet.
Lost in all this noise are the plans being made by our laughing enemies for another 9-11 attack on us. I suspect Obama will blame Israel for it when it happens.
Of course they do. Much better to have the troops over there rather than here protecting us when the SHTF.
Leaked to ABC News - Rhambo speaks every morning to Stephanopolous - held for weeks until Obama is on vacation. Hum ...
Maybe if the press can take time out from painting us all as racists because we don’t adore Obama, and start taking a good look at Rhambo - slowly every power (Census, Foreign Policy, Economy, etc) is being brought directly into the White House (hence the Czars, who are unaccountable to Congress). I think Rhambo has the goods on Obama’s past and is slowly (well, not so slowly) consolidating his own power while Obama takes the flak. Personally, I am less afraid of an inexperienced, naive socialist idiot running the country than a cunning, vicious, psychopathic megalomaniac running it from behind a cardboard stooge who can’t be attacked because he is black. I had a bad feeling when those early stories came out about “Rham” treating Obama so casually. Now, I’m really starting to get worried.
Then they'll just paint us as anti-Semites if we disagree with him.[/s]
Plus, that's a hella lot of men and women that would be unemployed, looking for work, and mad as hell that there were no jobs!
I would like to believe that. It would be nice to know that there's at least one person in the Zero administration that understands the threat of Islamic Jihad-ism. But, I fear that this is just some BS CYA coming from Panetta. I hope I'm wrong.
No doubt you are right on. Panetta knew what he was getting into.
Don’t think that dog would hunt ... Rham’s hate for Israel is pretty common knowledge ...
If it’s actual news, on the msm, it must be Brian Ross.
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