Comments on: Leon Panetta for CIA?

By: Rubicon

Rubicon — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:54:54 +0000

I see Panetta’s role at CIA to weed out any “Bush-type” plants. The CIA failed us miserably in the past. Whether that was due to political correctness, stupidity, globalist aspirations, or whatever, they did not do the job they were hired to do. Add to this the myriad other failures within the entire government, and what we have are people running the show who have agenda’s that have nothing at all to do with the preservation & protection of America. From a DHS that has failed to properly secure the porous southern border where drug cartels are now threatening to spill their violent activities over into our southwestern states, to an FEC that was forewarned of financial scams as long ago as 1999 & who did nothing, the system has become a cabal of corrupted operatives seeking their own place at the international table when America is divided up to eat. Whether this is an organized effort or the orchestrated efforts of a select few who have bamboozled the stupid & greedy within our government & within special interest groups, really no longer matters. What matters is, most of these folks are looking out for only themselves & have no concept of duty, honor, country. Panetta is simply another political attack dog placed at CIA to cover Obama’s back & root out any who appear conservative they think the Bush people may have planted there. Wanna bet the very first anonymous leak to the press by someone at CIA will causes such a stir & that heads will roll for such despicable actions? During Bush’s terms, leaks from CIA & almost every other federal agency were commonplace & the media who published anything, even w/o any proof at all, justified their dealings with anonymous sources as the “public need to know.” But if this happens during an Obama or Democrat administration, such anonymous sources will be branded traitors & rooted out with prosecution the order of the day for supposedly traitorous activities. Panetta is simply another use-fool idiot.

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:51:01 +0000

I think that this ignorance card people are playing with Panetta is valid within the public radar. His purpose as a director, however, will probably be to oversee operations without having any corruptible incentives. This seemed to be trademarks of former and current Bush administration cabinet members like Rumsfeld and Cheney.

Evan
http://www.beyondrace.com

By: Ritchie Emmons

Ritchie Emmons — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:58:36 +0000

Sorry David. I misspelled your last name there. Apologies.

By: David Thomson

David Thomson — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:09:21 +0000

“Most of the top CIA employees are from (this is for you David Thompson) “elite” Ivy League schools and suffer from a liberal groupthink that I find naive and dangerous.”

The typical CIA employee is probably a politically correct and intellectually inferior individual. Unfortunately, few Americans are aware of the shabby liberal arts education provided by Harvard, Yale, and our other “elite” universities. It is only their hard science graduates who deserve unhesitating respect. The others like the brain dead Caroline Kennedy should be treated like idiots until proven otherwise. As matter of fact, she may very well represent the majority of Harvard’s soft science graduates.

By: Ritchie Emmons

Ritchie Emmons — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:33:27 +0000

When I saw that Panetta was going to be head of the CIA, I had to google him to see if there was something in his professional life that I didn’t know about that qualified him to be DCI. I didn’t see it.

However, should we care?

The CIA has been a horrific segment of our government for a long time now. Possibly doing more harm than good. It missed the Berlin Wall, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 9/11. More over, it is likely that several damaging leaks over the past few years have come from the CIA. Most of the top CIA employees are from (this is for you David Thompson) “elite” Ivy League schools and suffer from a liberal groupthink that I find naive and dangerous.

I will accept that there are some great CIA victories that we will never hear about. But they’ve been really wrong about the really big events. And they have actively/intentionally damaged this country to pursue their own political agenda specifically at the expense of the President. Disgraceful.

Is Panetta not qualified. Likely. Can he make things worse at the CIA. Doubtful.

By: Tom Holsinger

Tom Holsinger — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:46:49 +0000

Sullihan, you asked: “Why did he leave the Clinton Administration at the end of the first term?”

I had said, “Plus he knows where lots of Democratic bodies are buried …”

Do the math.

By: Jbl

Jbl — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:44:33 +0000

Hayden SHOULD stay…an effective leader should not be thrown away simply because of politics, and it’s clear Obama is appointing Panetta because he is afraid of keeping “another Bushie” and further alienating his “base.” He’s putting political considerations before American safety and security.

Which just points out something no one will want to hear: Bush did not mind pissing off his base, if it came down to doing what he thought was right. Whether he WAS right is debatable, but the man had balls and the courage of his convictions.

Does Obama HAVE convictions? Or courage?

I look at him, and I look at what’s going on in the Middle East and I think…please, don’t let him look like such a lightweight over there!

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Odds & Ends | Pundit Review — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:37:33 +0000

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By: David Thomson

David Thomson — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:28:28 +0000

“His job is to keep the CIA from wrecking the Obama administration the way it did the Bush administration.”

Has it really come down to this? Please reread the above sentence. It should cause you to weep. Wasn’t the job of the CIA director to defend our country? Since when did it become their main duty to protect the reigning administration? Tom Holsinger has inadvertently provided the best reason why the CIA should be dramatically revamped—if not disbanded. This major spy organization has apparently become the General Motors of government.

By: John

John — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:31:21 +0000

Rest assured there’s a motive to this appointment. Obama and company are not dumb. We may never know.