UPDATE: Obama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head, Blair as intelligence director, Feinstein is PISSED!

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January 05, 2009, 04:18:42 PM
Very interesting development...

QuoteObama picks Leon Panetta as CIA head: reports   

Jan 5 03:44 PM US/Eastern
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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.

Hahahah... Diane Feinstein is pissed because none of these are JEWS and none of them are Zionists and Blair, as a Navy man, is well aware of USS Liberty.

QuotePanetta, Blair land top intel posts
By: Mike Allen and Jen DiMascio
January 5, 2009 06:48 PM EST

President-elect Barack Obama is naming Leon Panetta, a former congressman from California and chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, to be CIA director. Obama also has picked retired Navy Admiral Dennis Blair to be director of national intelligence, overseeing all the nation's spy agencies, a Democratic official said.

The selection pairs a top military man with a quintessential Washington insider - but that combination appeared to irk some key Senate Democrats, who expressed concern that Panetta does not have an intelligence background. "My position has consistently been that I believe the agency is best-served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time," said California Sen. Diane Feinstein, who will oversee Panetta's confirmation as chair of the Select Committee on Intelligence.

Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.), the vice chairman of the committee, also questioned the choice of Panetta. "Job number one at the CIA is to track down and stop terrorists. In a post-9-11 world, intelligence experience would seem to be a prerequisite for the job of CIA Director. While I will reserve final judgment on President-elect Obama's nomination for the leader of our terror-fighting agency, I will be looking hard at Panetta's intelligence expertise and qualifications."

The surprise choice of Panetta brings one of the more colorful - and quotable - Clinton administration figures back to Washington in one of the nation's most sensitive jobs.

But Panetta also will have the likely support of a generation of Washington insiders who know him as an affable and competent chair of the House Budget Committee, budget director during the Clinton administration and the chief of staff who finally brought a semblance of order to an unruly Clinton White House.

Former Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton said that while Panetta isn't from the traditional world of intelligence, he dealt with the issue on a daily basis as chief of staff and as a member of the Iraq Study Group.

In the last decade, the CIA's products haven't been received with confidence because of 9-11 and the Iraq War, but the Bush administration has begun making improvements in the quality of intelligence, Hamilton said.

"Panetta's job will be to continue that progress," Hamilton said, adding that he will also bring extensive managerial skills to the job that has a huge budget and thousands of employees. "I think he's a superb choice."

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David Rothkopf, a former Clinton administration official, said Panetta and Blair will make a "formidable" team and makes a clean break with controversial Bush-era policies. "It's very, very important to them to say this is a new chapter," he said.

The nation's two top intelligence posts were the two biggest appointments left to be made by the president-elect, along with a replacement for New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who withdrew as the Obama's choice for commerce secretary.

An official said the timing of the joint announcement had not been decided.

Obama had struggled to fill both jobs, having to turn to second choices in both cases.

Panetta, 71, is currently director of the Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy at California State University, Monterey Bay.

Panetta told the Monterey County Herald in November that had been consulting with top Obama advisers about White House appointments, but said he was unlikely to be tapped for a post.

"You can see a lot of chess pieces moving around," Panetta said.

Before retiring in 2002, Blair was commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Command.

From Blair's biography: "During his 34-year Navy career, Admiral Blair served on guided missile destroyers in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets and commanded the Kitty Hawk Battle Group. Ashore, he served as Director of the Joint Staff and as the first Associate Director of Central Intelligence for Military Support at the CIA. He has also served in budget and policy positions on the National Security Council and several major Navy staffs. A 1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Admiral Blair earned a master's degree in History and Languages from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and served as a White House Fellow at the Department of Housing and Urban Development."

From Panetta's biography: "From 1989 to 1993, Panetta was chairman of the House Committee on the Budget. He also served as a member of that committee from 1979 to 1985. ... Panetta left Congress in 1993, at the beginning of his ninth term, to become Director of the Office of Management and Budget for the incoming Clinton administration. Panetta was appointed Chief of Staff to President Clinton on July 17, 1994, and served in that position until January 20, 1997."
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MikeWB

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January 05, 2009, 09:03:27 PM
Quote from: "Mac Seafraidh"http://podblanc.com/hail-messiah-chief-barack-obama-the-red-communist-messiah
Stop spamming. This is irrelevant to this thread. Start a new one in proper forum if you want people to see it.
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Mac Seafraidh

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January 05, 2009, 10:54:17 PM
Quote from: "MikeWB"
Quote from: "Mac Seafraidh"http://podblanc.com/hail-messiah-chief-barack-obama-the-red-communist-messiah
Stop spamming. This is irrelevant to this thread. Start a new one in proper forum if you want people to see it.

I was not spamming. You are trying to claim that these two individuals under the Obama Administration are going to make a "change." I simply responded with a video as my opinion.

MikeWB

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January 05, 2009, 11:51:52 PM
Quote from: "Mac Seafraidh"
Quote from: "MikeWB"
Quote from: "Mac Seafraidh"http://podblanc.com/hail-messiah-chief-barack-obama-the-red-communist-messiah
Stop spamming. This is irrelevant to this thread. Start a new one in proper forum if you want people to see it.

I was not spamming. You are trying to claim that these two individuals under the Obama Administration are going to make a "change." I simply responded with a video as my opinion.
That video is GOP propaganda nonsense. Zero facts, 100% ad-hominem opinion.
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Rockclimber

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January 06, 2009, 08:39:19 PM
Is this left versus right? Is there really a difference Mike? It's us versus them!

§N9sh2bj

#6
January 06, 2009, 09:12:52 PM
you don't get that Rhodes scholarship unless you're friendly to the system.
moved on.
the author does not adopt jewish \'race theory\' or \'darwinism\'.
and believes \'jewish culture\' is mostly one of supporting their organized crime syndicates, with a enough veneer and an organized system of destroying and reshaping other cultures, to obfuscate the truth to most people.

MikeWB

#7
January 06, 2009, 10:05:12 PM
Quote from: "Rockclimber"Is this left versus right? Is there really a difference Mike? It's us versus them!
Scott, nonsense is nonsense and it doesn't help our cause... it just makes us look dumb. Factual info that's based on well supported facts is what influences people. Getting into this left/right nonsense helps no one but the elites.
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January 06, 2009, 10:12:41 PM
Quote from: "§N9sh2bj"you don't get that Rhodes scholarship unless you're friendly to the system.
You get it by having good grades and applying.
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January 06, 2009, 11:11:21 PM
Quote from: "MikeWB"
Quote from: "Rockclimber"Is this left versus right? Is there really a difference Mike? It's us versus them!
Scott, nonsense is nonsense and it doesn't help our cause... it just makes us look dumb. Factual info that's based on well supported facts is what influences people. Getting into this left/right nonsense helps no one but the elites.

Perhaps I misunderstood you. That was my point, this left/right argument is nonsense as it takes our focus off the real sunzabitches.

MikeWB

#10
January 07, 2009, 12:03:37 AM
Quote from: "Rockclimber"Perhaps I misunderstood you. That was my point, this left/right argument is nonsense as it takes our focus off the real sunzabitches.
Then we agree! :)

My comment was directed at that movie above that's just a bunch of crap with no substance. We need credible, incontrovertible evidence to fight these guys. Stuff that they can't easily dismiss as propaganda and empty rhetoric is detrimental to our cause.
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January 07, 2009, 12:24:48 AM
Quote from: "MikeWB"
Quote from: "Rockclimber"Perhaps I misunderstood you. That was my point, this left/right argument is nonsense as it takes our focus off the real sunzabitches.
Then we agree! :)

My comment was directed at that movie above that's just a bunch of crap with no substance. We need credible, incontrovertible evidence to fight these guys. Stuff that they can't easily dismiss as propaganda and empty rhetoric is detrimental to our cause.

WE agree again!  ;)  Sorry Mike
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