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Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« on: January 05, 2009, 02:09:17 PM »
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Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head: reports 
 
Jan 5 03:44 PM US/Eastern

US president-elect Barack Obama has chosen former lawmaker and White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to head the Central Intelligence Agency, US media reported Monday.
 



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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2009, 02:15:40 PM »
Quote from: asdf2231 on January 05, 2009, 02:09:17 PM
 

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A political apparatchik in a position that needs someone with experience in that field in the position.

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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2009, 02:16:33 PM »
This country is well and truly ****ed. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

While I'm at it, maybe I should go get some more .30-30 ammo . . .
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2009, 02:21:00 PM »
so much for "change". This really resembles a remake of the Clinton Admin. Old faces, old ideas.
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2009, 02:24:48 PM »
wow.  nothing is sacred.  perhaps the most sensitive position in the entire federal government goes to a common pol.  not a CIA careerist, not even someone with a moment's experience in the intelligence field . . . oh, wait.  in view of who is president, one can only assume that this is a piece of BarackStar! doctrine.

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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2009, 02:25:38 PM »
The Clinton Administration inner circle moving back into the whitehouse.  Any more coincidental appointments and I'm beginning to smell a "puppet" Presidency.  Wonder what kinda back room agreements/threats brought this about..
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2009, 02:26:27 PM »
look for hillary's squeeze, huma abedin, to be named SecDef by June.

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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2009, 02:30:57 PM »
What's Lanny Davis new Job going to be ?
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2009, 02:39:06 PM »
Quote from: Zeus on January 05, 2009, 02:30:57 PM
What's Lanny Davis new Job going to be ?

head of NSA.  and party favors.  and special assistant for "change we are deceived  in".
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2009, 02:47:16 PM »
Good choice, Leon Pin-heada......head just as sharp as his pinhead boss'.
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2009, 02:53:44 PM »
I guess Biden wasn't kidding about that "test".  Obama is doing everything he can to make sure we won't be able to properly protect ourselves.

The next 4 years just got a lot darker.
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2009, 02:56:30 PM »
if I lived in a tall building in a large american city, I would move.  if I worked in one, I would quit.  this is just begging to get hit again.
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2009, 03:01:50 PM »
the more I think about this, the more and more ridiculous it gets.  this is the CIA, for God's sake, the most insular, mistrusting organization in the country.  a place were being paranoid is a required job skill.

so they throw a freaking newbie in there.  this is just sheer naivety and abject lack of any experience whatsoever.
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2009, 03:10:09 PM »
Quote from: Thor on January 05, 2009, 02:21:00 PM
so much for "change". This really resembles a remake of the Clinton Admin. Old faces, old ideas.

The Democrats haven't had any new faces or ideas in, oh, about 40 years.
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2009, 03:17:21 PM »
Quote from: jinxmchue on January 05, 2009, 03:10:09 PM
The Democrats haven't had any new faces or ideas in, oh, about 40 years.

kookspinach and his "department of peace" was relatively new, if only because the hopelessly insane usually don't think about politics much.
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2009, 03:28:09 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on January 05, 2009, 03:17:21 PM
if only because the hopelessly insane usually don't think about politics much.

Because most of'em have been elected to warm democrat seats in the house/senate.
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2009, 04:09:54 PM »
Thank God for this!

Now we will be safe if Al-Qaeda tries to blow anybody in the oval office. :whatever:
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2009, 04:10:38 PM »
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Oscar :thatsright: :thatsright: :thatsright: :thatsright:
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #18 on: January 05, 2009, 05:06:36 PM »
Quote from: asdf2231 on January 05, 2009, 04:09:54 PM
Thank God for this!

Now we will be safe if Al-Qaeda tries to blow anybody in the oval office. :whatever:

two things:
1. they'd have to get in line behind the MSM
2. he didn't notice it last time, why would he notice it now?
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #19 on: January 05, 2009, 05:17:11 PM »
At least it wasn't Sandy Berger, John Walker, Aldrich Ames, or Robert Hanssen.  But it's nearly as bad.
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #20 on: January 05, 2009, 05:20:53 PM »
Quote from: asdf2231 on January 05, 2009, 04:09:54 PM
Thank God for this!

Now we will be safe if Al-Qaeda tries to blow anybody in the oval office. :whatever:

Which begs the question...if Panetta as Big Dogs Chief of Staff "had no idea" that Monica was servicing the POTUS...how in the hell can we trust him as the Spy Chief of the entire country?
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #21 on: January 05, 2009, 06:05:08 PM »
Hmmmm.....not all the Dems are very happy.....

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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. (from Fox News site.http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/05/leon-panetta-tapped-head-cia-sources-say/.)

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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #22 on: January 05, 2009, 06:19:39 PM »
Yes, unlike Babs Boxhead, Feinstein is at least semi-reasonable and almost intelligent, about 1 percent of the time.
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #23 on: January 05, 2009, 11:57:49 PM »
Quote from: Thor on January 05, 2009, 02:21:00 PM
so much for "change". This really resembles a remake of the Clinton Admin. Old faces, old ideas.

Yeah, it certainly is. Another Clinton year for us.
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Re: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head
« Reply #24 on: January 05, 2009, 11:58:07 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on January 05, 2009, 06:19:39 PM
Yes, unlike Babs Boxhead, Feinstein is at least semi-reasonable and almost intelligent, about 1 percent of the time.

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