Obama Picks Panetta To Head CIA!
From Fox News:
Leon Panetta Tapped to Head CIA
Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff Leon Panetta has been tapped to head the CIA in President-elect Barack Obama’s administration, causing surprise and a bit of consternation by several individuals involved in the intelligence community.
Two Democratic sources close to the transition process said Monday that Panetta, who was a congressman and one-time head of the White House Office of Management and Budget, is Obama’s pick to replace Michael Hayden at the CIA…
Panetta is a surprise pick since he has no experience in the intelligence world. However, as chief of staff he had considerable access to intelligence information and knows how the community operates.
Panetta was a longtime congressman from California who also served on the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan panel that released a report at the end of 2006 with dozens of recommendations for reversing course in the Iraq war.
Taken by surprise was Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., incoming chairwoman of the Select Senate Intelligence Committee.
"I was not informed about the selection of Leon Panetta to be the CIA director. I know nothing about this, other than what I’ve read. My position has consistently been that I believe the agency is best-served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time," Feinstein said in a written statement.
Based on a handful of conversations among those linked to the intelligence community, Panetta’s name was not on any of the watch lists circulating in Washington…
They also noted that since Panetta served as chief of staff for Clinton, he will surely face questions about the Clinton administration terror policy and what critics saw as "dropping the ball" in the 1990s…
We held off on posting this because we were hoping it was some kind of a hoax. But it has been confirmed.
This is easily one of the most bizarre cabinet picks in our Republic’s long history. And certainly one of its most dangerous.
Mr. Panetta would be better suited to head Code Pink than the CIA.
God help us all.
Well.. considering the liberal tendency to seek the lowest common denominator.. it is appropriate.. truly.
Oh, Lord…we have to rely on Senator Feinstein to save us from this guy? Though Senator Feinstein and I do not agree, she is better–much better–than Senator “Rictus Grin” Boxer. Having met Mr. Panetta, I can gaurantee that he is a political beast ONLY with operational experience in politics and nothing else. He is a smooth talker–in an oily and gruesome kind of way.
Leon Panetta to run the CIA in the middle of the War on Terror(ists)??? I guess they are saving Sandy “the burglar” Berger for something really important…
And once again, what’s up with all the Clinton retreads? Where is the “Hopey Changemas” all the suckers were promised? If the stupid dems really wanted a third Clinton term, why didn’t they just nominate Hillary? At least then we would have a semi-competent, but experienced, evil lib in the White House instead of a Chicago machine crony with no real experience who is also an evil lib.
Hey barkeep, make it a double and easy on the ice! It’s gonna be a long 4 years…
This fool who will soon be sworn in never ceases to amaze me. I guess this is a “tip of the hat” to the lunatics on the left. This is truly scary and sad. But I saw the crawl on Fox last night that he had “been on the 9/11 commission”. Wow, that makes me feel soooo much better, not!
Guess the “cone of silence” will be going back up between the government agencies as well. Sen. Feinstein won’t be able to stop this unfortunately even though I doubt she seriously would even think about it. She’s just po’d that she didn’t get a “heads up” from the Almighty.
How does our country allow this to happen only 7 short years later? Have we forgotten?