Spooked By the New Guy

THINKER: THE TRUTH ITS AMAZING THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN IN POLITICS. POLITICIANS ONLY KNOW HOW TO LIE AND BRAINWASH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE JUST AS OTHER WORLD LEADERS DO TO THERE PEOPLE. LIES ARE COMMON, THE TRUTH DOES NOT EXIST.

If the investigation takes the form of fact finding and not scapegoating all is well. However, politics is too often about making soemone else look "bad" so the speaker looks "good" Interrogation largely doesn't work because fear and pain are the worst motivators for truth known to man. Building trust and trying to understand someone else's viewpont/perspective is more likely to reveal reality.Most people will say anything to avoid pain and discomfort...think Inquistion herel. Perhaps what CIA needs are a few pre-school teachers or special educators who know how to build trust and who constantly have to understand "the truth" with the merest of clues.

How come it's okay for Newsweek to use the word "spook", in an article about the Obama administration, but I can't?/

What we need is a dog that hunts game set match.

The C in CIA stands for Central. CIA was supposed to be the centralization of over-seas intelligence gathering and analysis. These days the U.S. seems to have as many intelligence agencies as it does Lieutenant Generals. Instead of being the President's obese, obsequious, lap dog, maybe Panetta can turn it into the premier organization for organizing, gathering and analyzing over-seas intelligence. Results? You want results? In a level-headed cost-benefit analysis, the CIA's results are worthless.

what about mind control on a 52 year old woman that knows thats why analog boxes are needed now and that if you have unknowingly got a veri chip in your brain, like me that my signature was forged for permission for research grants by censors to the nervous system attached to someone in a lab receiving signals by computer from my body and brain.

We are a nation of laws, not "men" (meaning both genders). If those leading our nation want anarchy, they can send a clear message that they're cool with that by not investigating and pursuing convictions here. It has been obvious to any American paying attention, that the Bush Administration and their government, justice and military people ignored and bulldozed any semblance of adherence to our laws, and to international laws.

The good news is that these people will be investigated and pursued by other countries whether we do it or not. The bad news is that the only way for the U.S. to avoid completely losing its standing in the world is to do the right thing - investigate and convict these theves and criminals, and put them up as examples to the rest of the world that they were not acting as Americans must. This is the only moral thing to do, and it's the only way to get our standing in the world back, if that's still possilble.

"Risk-adversive." Waterboarding people. LOL

Yes, I just bet they are worried about it. Might I suggest 15 minutes in the pool for everyone who advocated it?

The Ministry of Truth (CIA) treats Directors that it doesn't like by "pharoah-ing" them: insulate, treat like royalty, feed them scripts to read to Congress, and otherwise do their own thing.

Let's see how all of us are feeling about "torture" when terrorism again hits our shores. Yes, I know you're all miffed that Obama too is a pragmatist, and that he has left many of his utopian ideas on the campaign trail. It's a little different when the weight of the country now rests on your shoulders, isn't it? It's always the ones yapping about splashing some water in a terrorist's face who have no responsibility anyway. When we get bombed again it won't be the left's fault, will it? Oh, I am sure we'll be able to blame Bush for it anyway. Why stop AFTER he's not president anymore?

Hmmm...

Leon Panetta has a very positive record as a former member of the U.S House of Representatives, Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget; and, as Chief of Staff to President Clinton.

By the way, he does have some previous, responsible, "intelligence community experience" while serving with the U.S. Army; and, the White House Chief of Staff is certainly part of the ???intelligence community.???

Most important, however, Leon Panetta was the main person responsible for balancing the budget during the Clinton years. Also, as Chief of Staff, he made day to day White House operations work more smoothly, through better management.

Leon Panetta???s reputation and credentials are flawless. Plus, he is a very good person!

He has an excellent record of cutting costs and doing an outstanding job at whatever the task.

Although he might be an ???outsider??? in the intelligence community, Leon Panetta does not carry past CIA baggage.

Therefore, he is an excellent choice to manage the activities of the CIA.

To date, I have no reason to mistrust President Obama's choices for any of his appointments. He seems to be picking the right person to fill each slot based upon their ability to do the job. In all of my 40+ years I have never known of any president-elect to assume such a critical role in the running of our country before he has even been sworn into office. Having been around this long, though, I do know that our CIA has held itself above the law for a long time. We have subverted, undermined and even overthrown foriegn governments in the name of American Democrocy without anyone ever being held accountable. That has to stop if we want to be viewed as anything other than a hateful nation of greedy racist.