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The Agency has become "risk averse" which means they will not take a risk coz they are desk jockey's more interested in thier OWN careers than getting the job done. Let the SAD do thier jobs, and let the desk jockeys do thiers-stats, trends, thier paperwork and thier carreers. The CIA was feared-and loathed by the enemy. Its not that way no more. Thanks Prez FORD. You idiot.

Feinstein, if YOU have so much experience with INTEL, why did you go shooting off your mouth about "CIA drones" based in P-stan? You have opened a can of worms, and you woould be the last person I would let know about "Top Secret" info, since you can't hold water. Let the field operatives operate, don't go nailing men-and women who put thier lives in danger almost every day. Panetta should let the experienced intel people do thier jobs, sometimes it means playing dirty, but sometimes rules must be broken in order to get results. Case in point: Marine barracks bombing in Lebanon. They sent a veteran agent over there to get results, and when he got down to the truth, they charged him with murder. They didn't like wat they heard [TRUTH], so they tried to ruin this man. His nickname was "Capt. Crunch", and he is an American hero.

Is that Rockefeller as in big Oil money Rockefeller? You all want to sleep well at night read about Riggs bank, and how the oil companys got started at www.JohnLoftus.com.

As long as we have a President with no leadership experience we might as well have a CIA Director with no intelligence experience while we're at war...makes perfect sense to me, besides, I was getting to comfortable to the idea that my family and I could sleep safely at night...

The Dems attitude of virtuosity when it comes to fixing a process that has kept us safe since 9/11 is suicidal for the country. Maybe the terrorists in the coming attack will let women and children leave the building before they achieve martyrdom by killing the rest. This "holier than thou " attitude WILL cost many lives!

If, at 71, Panetta's got enough energy for the job he might be a very good choice. After his first choice fell through, Obama was faced with finding someone who hasn't dirtied his hands in the last eight years through involvement with torture, secret renditions, Guantanamo, etc. Someone with no such involvement can conduct a thorough house cleaning, thereby elevating the agency. Maybe some of the old pros who left the agency out of disgust and took early retirement may find their way back. Panetta, unlike Tenet, is likely to be more willing to speak truth to power. The CIA will never be a "goody two-shoes" outfit (it has murdered too many people in the name of national security), but at least it could be something akin to the FBI; something ethical, moral Americans need not be ashamed of. Also, CIA director is not the top intelligence job anymore. Panetta would report to Admiral Blair, the director of national intelligence and overseer of 16 intelligence gathering agencies, most of which are under the DoD.

The fact that a moron like Keith Olbermann is questioning Feinstein or Rockefeller on getting their hackles up about Panetta makes me think that they are right. Olbermann is a stupid moron who needs to go and get a job that would be tailor made for him. However, I don't know if Olbermann could make much money drooling.

Well, at least it's change when you appoint someone with no experience in what an agency does to head that agency! Slowly but surely all this Obama nonsence and hype will begin to unravel. The budget deficit is projected to be over a trillion dollars in '09. All Obama knows is spend, spend, spend! He never was qualified to run for President. He is not qualified to be President and never will be. The country is just going to hell in a bucket! Get ready for another war, Hillary (our next Secretary of State) says an attack on Israel is an attack on the USA!

If the mouth-breathing Bush/cheney defenders from the dwindling GOP party of hate get any scarcer, we'll have to argue both sides of the issue. Check out notsoquietmajority's comments. His retort to my attack on the hate mongers was to accuse me of hating African Americans. Is that the feeblest excuse for a defense of his evaporating Rebublican party?

So now the Reps having shown their incompetence and lack of qualifications to run the country, start becoming backseat drivers and Monday morning quarterbacks shouting "sour grapes!". When will you allow others a benefit of a doubt and allow them to run this country which you totally ran into the dirt?

I thought that Harleyishere was in line for the CIA. Maybe Harley can become the White House garbage man.

The Democrats will get over it when they see the results that Panetta produces. Bush, Cheney and Rice are on the verge of soiling their under garmets because they know their dispicable acts will soon be made public. Chalk this up as another nail in the coffin of the GOP party of hate.

This is what was the undoing of the Democrats at the beginning of Bill Clinton's tenure; pointless infighting. It's almost like they want to guarantee that they will lose Congress in the next elections.