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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You've got that right. It's all about redefining. Change the meaning of what constitutes "torture" and then they can prosecute to their bitter little hearts' content. (Holding a drill to a terrorist's head but not actually using it is torture??!?!?!?)
Redefine ACORN simply by giving it a new name as if it were "The New Coke". Redefine the "public option" in the health care debate in the same way---just say it's going to be a co-op. Redefine representative government for and by the people---just go around them with the appointment of unelected and unaccountable "czars". I could go on but you get the idea.
If obama & his mama were ever spies, I’d believe it was for the KGB before I’d believe it was the CIA.
They already have everything they need....red
He won’t quit. But with this little farce, he saves some face within the Agency.
This could be really big. Th,e vital thing to remember is that the CIA was never really a “Bush” agency; rather it was and remained a Clinton agency, staffed and run by devout Clintonoids who stabbed Bush in the back every time they could. Now the jackals are turning on each other. Let’s all hope the CIA operatives who’re being targeted spill all they know about the Illegal Alien, including his Certificate of Live Birth and school records.
Its only logical purpose is not to win, but to degrade the all volunteer military by forcing it into a horrific meat grinder with thousands of wonderful young men and women being killed and maimed by its subhuman allies, thereby destroying the military and the United States. If I were the parent or grandparent of a young person who was contemplating a military career while the Illegal Alien occupied the WH, I'd unrge him or her NOT TO DO IT.
You can ignore that the two have worked for outfits that have been known to be cover for the CIA operative...and the the CIA will use anyone they can to further an agenda - even Bing C. against an Indonesian leader- and you can ignore what Lolo was involved in...ignore all of it...
but you can’t ignore the black hole that is obama’s history..and there are only a few groups that could do that..not even the KGB could do it on such a massive scale on such a prominent US person.
..it takes the attention off of the utter failure of Obamacare. This way the MSM can fill up the front pages of the propaganda sheets with a red herring.....all this talk about the republicans holding up "the reform" is BS...ODUMBO CAN'T GET ENOUGH RATS to follow....thus lets create a smoke screen
I think that’s exactly what we’re going to see over the next year or so. Unless Obama’s able to turn it around, Hillary is running against him in 2012.
>I’m thinking the CIA has Panetta on a leash and not Obama. That’s why Panetta is staying loyal to the CIA. God knows how much stuff they have on everyone.<
Well it’s about damn time they started using it on Obama isn’t it then?
Yeah, I figured that out eventually.
The White House - being full of liberals - is full of control freaks. Leon should have seen that before taking the job.
Presidential Approval - tanking.
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I bet that reeeeeeeeeeely had Hussein worried.
what a bunch of BS.
Well, let me inform the Lefties and the “Special Prosecutor”...if they think they're gonna run a game on the C.I.A. and those who work there;
they've got another thought coming.
I expect anyone in Intel who is questioned will respond
“Go *uck Yourself!” and then plead the 5th.
CIA has used many people who had no loyalty to the US.
You can ignore all of it but you can’t ignore the very real fact that such a black hole of information can only come about in VERY FEW WAYS...it is very likely part of a National Security endeavor.
You have a good point. Don’t forget the history of Rahm’s family...on both sides.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they were related to Moshe Auerbach AKA Agami..even though Rahm’s father denied it.
oh, and there are lots of nefarious people/organizations out there that can create enough 'black holes' to swallow up just about anything in the Universe...are you watching Glenn Beck this week?
Show me one person running for office that has had such a black hole in information.
Your explanation of the KGB doesn’t wash when it is US businesses, schools, etc providing a lockdown on info.
All it takes is a whisper in the ear from the CIA, NSA, etc.
They won't. That is unless they have a death wish. Remember, obama has 'somebody/something' that can scare even the clintons into submission. It has to be pretty damn scary if it is something that can out Marcy Park the arkicide Marcy Parkers!
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