Obama White House v. CIA; Panetta Threatened to Quit (White House "Screaming Match")

ABC News ^ | 8/24/2009 | MATTHEW COLE, RICHARD ESPOSITO and BRIAN ROSS

[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."

[Mr. Silverback]

Part of me says, “This is a lie, it’s propaganda” but I can’t figure out what they gain by it.

Am I just paranoid?

[xkaydet65]

He worked in the Nixon White House before his conversion. Maybe some vestige of patriotism remains.

[manc]

just said on another thread

have you noticed how many directors are not in positions yet like the DEA, TSA, etc etc but the czars are.???

the white house is taking over all power in this country and sidestepping the law and congress.
this is another step to centralise power to the white house and the media are where????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

over at MA saying how great those curtains are on his wife or there is a parade of dogs for the presidents dog bla bla

is ss not going up because many older folks spoke up against his health care plan???

maybe and it would not surprise me that this is his way to punish free speech.
How can one say cost of living has not going up when all the bills are going up along with food

[Paradox]

Panetta is an “old school” Democrat, you know, the relatively moderate ones? And by that, I mean the Clinton Democrats. He probably has a shred of love left for his Country. I’ll bet he is surprised by the ineptitude, and the utter contempt for America, that these “new school” democrats have.

[abb]

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.

[sunny48]

Here a czar there a czar everywhere a czar.
Panetta isn’t needed anymore, obie is setting up an interrogation czar.

Is half of this crap happening to our nation even legal?
We the people aren’t being listened to. The constitution trampled on.

[444Flyer]

Not to worry ya’ll. The Saudis will take it from here.

[Mr. Silverback]

I’m no fan of Panetta, but if this story is true and I were in his position I’d stay at CIA as long as possible, because I’d know the Director that replaced me would be a potted plant.

[My Favorite Headache]

Might be right.

[Gabrial]

“Panetta was reportedly upset over plans by Attorney General Eric Holder to open a criminal investigation of allegations that CIA officers broke the law...”

However, Holder has no issues with the New Black Panthers wearing military-style uniforms and yielding nightsticks at polling places...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BemSmTNDxU

[444Flyer]

“Detainees Shown CIA Officers’ Photos”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320926/posts

[BamaAndy]

dime to a donut this lapdog Panetta will not quit. Hell no. He’s as corrupt as any.

[ETL]

I guess Panetta isn't a big enough traitor for this White House. I guess Panetta, at some level, actually believes in his country.

Good choice of words: "big enough" traitor...

A little background on Leon Panetta, Obama's CIA Chief...

"In April 1985 [Leon] Panetta joined with 13 of his leftist congressional colleagues — including Ron Dellums, Don Edwards, George Miller, Christopher Dodd, and Les Aspin — in sponsoring a 20th anniversary fund-raising gala for the pro-Marxist Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which had been described by Brian Crozier, director of the London Institute for the Study of Conflict, as the "perfect intellectual front for Soviet activities which would be resisted if they were to originate openly from the KGB." The IPS was originally funded with millions of dollars from the Faberge perfume magnate and Communist Party member Samuel Rubin and his wife."

"Readers who recall the movement to impeach Bill Clinton remember that one of the charges raised by Clinton's critics was the conflict of interest created when individuals connected with the Chinese Overseas Shipping Company (COSCO) — such as John Huang, Charles Trie, and James and Mochtar Riady — helped funnel contributions to the Clinton reelection campaign. Afterwards, the Clinton administration lobbied for granting COSCO a 10-year lease on the former Long Beach Naval Shipyard in California.

During a March 1997 edition of CNBC's Equal Time program, California Republican State Senator Dick Mountjoy noted that COSCO-linked arms dealer Wang Jun had been granted personal access to President Clinton, and that Wang's business associates had smuggled illegal assault weapons into California for delivery to street gangs by making use of a ship owned and operated by COSCO.

Mountjoy then stated:

The next thing you know, (then-Chief of Staff) Leon Panetta is down here negotiating that port for the Chinese.

There is much more to the COSCO-Long Beach connection than we have room for here, but a good summary of the threat the arrangement made to U.S. security may be found in an item inserted into the Congressional Record by Rep. Gerald B.H. Solomon on May 20, 1997.

Even the most unbiased of observers may legitimately ask: Why on Earth is an individual who helped negotiate the turnover of the Long Beach Naval Shipyard to the communist Chinese, thereby creating the threat to U.S. national security described in the Washington Times article by Rowan Scarborough and inserted into the Congressional Record by Rep. Solomon, being considered for a top position at one of our nation's most critical intelligence agencies?"

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/655
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From the website of the Marxist think tank, Institute For Policy Studies...

Obama’s Agenda for Change and the 2009 Summit of the Americas

excerpt:

'Yes We Can' — Change for the Americas Coming from Below

Hemispheric resistance to the first attempt by the U.S. to force the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) on every nation on this continent led to its eventual defeat at the IV Summit of the Americas, held in Argentina in 2005. The organizers of the April 2009 V Summit of the Americas had hoped to focus on a social agenda of providing a decent living for all those who call the “Americas” their home. The emergence of the PPA, or Bush’s Plan B for the FTAA, represents a threat to the urgent need of having all nations in the hemisphere focus on tackling the disparities that make the region the most unequeal in the world.

According to Obama, “what's good for the people of the Americas is good for the United States.” Among the specific proposals Obama has made (political freedom and democracy; freedom from fear and security; freedom from want and opportunity) in the “New Partnership for the Americas” document, he says that “it’s time for a new alliance of the Americas” that leaves behind “eight years of failed policies” and “top down reforms”, and puts forward instead an “agenda that advances democracy, security, and opportunity from the bottom up”. For Obama to make good on his vision for a new "partnership" in the Americas, the divisive Bush PPA initiative must be laid to rest well before the April V Summit of the Americas gets underway.

The 2009 IV Peoples’ Summit in Trinidad and Tobago

On April 17-19, 2009, the IV Peoples Summit will be taking place in Port of Spain, Trinidad (while heads of state are simultaneously meeting at the V Summit of the Americas).The message of a "change agenda" for the hemisphere will be brought to the island nation by social movements coming from all points in between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego. A key focus for discussions during the People’s Summit will be the economic meltdown hitting the capitalist system, and the opening that this provides for the implementation of a peoples’ agenda promoting sustainable development, social justice, equity, and peaceful coexistence.[ie, communism/socialism -etl]

In conjunction with the Hemispheric Social Alliance, social movements present in Trinidad and Tobago will be providing a "change agenda" that, in large measure, will likely be echoed by representatives from many of the newly elected governments in Latin America and the Caribbean. The V Summit of the Americas will be an ideal setting for Obama to signal a new respectful and consultative role for the US in the Americas as well. Will Obama avail himself of the opportunity to take this courageous step forward? Ojalá!

Source: Institute For Policy Studies (IPS):
http://www.ips-dc.org/articles/933
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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: Institute For Policy Studies (IPS)

IPS’s [Institute For Policy Studies] Washington, DC headquarters quickly became a resource center for national reporters and a place for KGB agents from the nearby Soviet embassy to convene and strategize. Cora Weiss headed one of the IPS's most successful forays -- into Riverside Church in Manhattan. She was invited there in 1978 by the Reverend William Sloane Coffin to run the church's Disarmament Program, which sought to consolidate Soviet nuclear superiority in Europe -- in the name of "peace." In 1982 Weiss helped organize the largest pro-disarmament demonstration ever held. Staged in New York City, the rally was attended by a coalition of communist organizations. During her decade-long tenure at Riverside, which became home to the National Council of Churches, Weiss regularly received Russian KGB agents, Sandinista friends, and Cuban intelligence agents. Weiss became infamous for her role in the psychological warfare conducted against U.S. prisoners of war held in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" during the Vietnam War.

The Liberation News Service, which is a news source for hundreds of "alternative" publications nationwide (with antiwar, Marxist-oriented perspectives), was founded in 1967 with IPS assistance."

[lots more at link...]

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6991

[ETL]

The Bush-Cheney "investigators" need to be investigated! (ties to revolutionary communist orgs)
various sources | July 13, 2009 | info compiled by me

Posted on Monday, July 13, 2009 8:37:28 AM ET by ETL

House Judiciary Committee chairman/chief Bush administration "torture" investigator, democrat John Conyers Jr of Michigan is an endorser of the Revolutionary Communist Party movement/organization, "World Can't Wait"...

Former Abu Ghraib Brigadier General, Janis Karpinski, is also an endorser of the revolutionary communist org...

Details here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2291371/posts

[a fool in paradise]

Screaming match.

Barack Obama needs to GROW UP already.

He got into a tiff in November too when Bush hadn’t yet signed on for the bailout.

[Retired Greyhound]

“Bet ya’ anything that the fight was with Rahm.”

If so, than I imagine he heard the words “I’ll cut your nuts off” or some such thing.

[going hot]

In olden days, the spy would spend years getting close to the king, in order to glean info and tweak outcomes of stately decisions.

his SOB cuts out the middle man, he IS the MFWIC, and decides who does/gets what.

[skinkinthegrass]

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."

Well...He's a goner....
(just another latent racist; as one, who opposes "the One")
Zer0Bambi, probably wanted (known) KGB / GRU agents
(or agents of influence) to run (all of) USA Intelligence
Agencies....just to make it fair.

[TennTuxedo]

have you noticed how many directors are not in positions yet like the DEA, TSA, etc etc but the czars are.???

the white house is taking over all power in this country and sidestepping the law and congress.

this is another step to centralise power to the white house and the media are where????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

To add to this, the White Houses wants to increase the number of US troops in Afghanistan.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Panetta has more class and is not a team player of pure progressive commie ways and corruption.