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Home Front: Politix
Obama picks Leon Panetta to head CIA
2009-01-05
More "Change". Sandy Berger unavailable?
WASHINGTON -- Two Democratic officials say President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to run the CIA.

Panetta was a surprise pick for the post, with no experience in the intelligence world.
Oh, perfect...
Complements the boss, he does ...
An Obama transition official and another Democrat disclosed his nomination on a condition of anonymity since it was not yet public.
Psssst...hey Scoops? Wanna story?
Panetta was director of the Office of Management and Budget and a longtime congressman from California. He served on the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan panel that released a report at the end of 2006 with dozens of recommendations for the reversing course in the Iraq war.
Which one was his ? "Cut" or "run"?
Just what you want at CIA, someone who was wrong on the surge and won't admit it ...
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 Ord.
The Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy (and Automotive Repair). Well, it's located at an old army base, so he must be qualified, right?
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