XCALIDEM
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Is Obama crazy|? What Fuuck is he thinking? Putting the the security of the nation in the hands of a man who does not have the qualifications to run the CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY?
In a time of war we need people with big cojones and won't question his actions.
Osama Bin Laden is probably lauging his ass off in his cave right now, knowing that he can attack us now at any time....
In a time of war we need people with big cojones and won't question his actions.
Osama Bin Laden is probably lauging his ass off in his cave right now, knowing that he can attack us now at any time....
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/05/leon-panetta-tapped-head-cia-sources-say/Bill Clinton's former chief of staff has been tapped to head the CIA in President-elect Barack Obama's administration, FOX News has learned.
Two Democratic sources close to the transition process said Monday that Leon Panetta, who also previously led the White House Office of Management and Budget, is Obama's pick to replace Michael Hayden at the CIA.
One Democratic official also confirmed that retired Adm. Dennis Blair is Obama's choice for national intelligence director. That announcement is not unexpected. The 34-year old Navy veteran was chief of the U.S. Pacific Command during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Blair is also a China expert, and he was an associate director for military support 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.
He is just the latest Clinton-era official to be invited into Obama's administration. Obama's pick for chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, also worked in the Clinton White House as a senior adviser to the president. A number of other nominees to key positions worked in the Clinton administration.
Panetta currently directs with his wife Sylvia the Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy, based at California State University, Monterey Bay a university he helped establish on the site of the former U.S. Army base, Fort O