Barack Obama announced that Leon Panetta, former CA congressman and Clinton chief of staff, will be the next head of the CIA. Panetta has no operational intelligence experience and will be one of the few directors with no experience at a spy agency.
Diane Feinstein, CA Senator and head of the Senate Intelligence committee said,
“I was not informed about the selection of Leon Panetta to be the CIA director… My position has consistently been that I believe the agency is best served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time.”
Senator John D. Rockefeller “has concerns because he has always believed that the director of CIA needs to be someone with significant operational intelligence experience, and someone outside the political realm,” an aide said.
[Read More] From the LA Times.
Michael Ledeen at NRO: I think it’s a smart move.
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