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Obama Sending Panetta to Pentagon, Petraeus to CIA
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- In a major national security reshuffle, President Barack Obama is sending CIA Director Leon Panetta to the Pentagon to replace Robert Gates, a widely praised Bush holdover, and replacing Panetta at the spy agency with Gen. David Petraeus, the high-profile commander of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Obama's changes, expected to be announced at the White House on Thursday, also will include a new ambassador and war commander in Afghanistan. However, they don't signal any major adjustment in the president's Afghan strategy or the fight against violent extremism. The moves ...
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Obama Reportedly to Make Major National Security Leadership Changes
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama plans this week to name CIA Director Leon Panetta to replace Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Gen. David Petraeus, now running the war in Afghanistan, would take the CIA chief's job in a major shuffle of the nation's top national security leadership, administration and other sources said Wednesday. All sources spoke on condition of anonymity because the changes are not final. Getty Images Leon Panetta, left, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the International Security Assistance Force and ...
U.S. Vulnerable to Terrorism, Especially Cyber Attacks, Intelligence Chiefs Say
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyThe United States remains vulnerable to attacks by both foreign and domestic terrorists, particularly on the nation's vast computer networks -- systems that coordinate everything from power grids to financial markets to the government itself. "This is the battleground for the future," CIA Director Leon Panetta said during a hearing Thursday before the House Subcommittee on Intelligence. "The next Pearl Harbor may very well be a cyber attack." Calling the cyber threat "increasing in scope" and saying "its impact is difficult to overestimate," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper ...
CIA Chief: Mubarak Likely on His Way Out
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- CIA Director Peon Panetta says U.S. intelligence indicates that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is on his way out. Panetta tells Congress that his information indicates the U.S.-backed strongman could be out by Thursday night. He says there is a "high likelihood" of that. Panetta did not say exactly how the CIA reached that conclusion. He says Mubarak's exit would be "significant" in moving Egypt to an "orderly transition" of power. Egypt's military announced on national television that it has stepped in to "safeguard the country" and assured protesters that Mubarak will meet ...
CIA Officers Made Grave Mistakes, Then Got Promoted
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (AP) - In December 2003, security forces boarded a bus in Macedonia and snatched a German citizen named Khaled el-Masri. For the next five months, el-Masri was a ghost. Only a select group of CIA officers knew he had been whisked to a secret prison for interrogation in Afghanistan. But he was the wrong guy. A hard-charging CIA analyst had pushed the agency into one of the biggest diplomatic embarrassments of the U.S. war on terrorism. Yet despite recommendations by an internal review, the analyst was never punished. In fact, she has risen to one of the premier jobs in the CIA's ...
No Disciplinary Action in Deaths of 7 CIA Workers
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Oct. 19) -- Despite glaring security blunders, no intelligence officials will be fired or disciplined for failing to prevent a 2009 suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed seven CIA employees in one of the deadliest attacks in the agency's history, CIA Director Leon Panetta said Tuesday. Panetta said separate internal reviews concluded that critical warnings about the Jordanian double agent who set off the explosion inside a base in Afghanistan base were not shared with other officials, security measures on the base were insufficient and it was unclear who was in charge of the ...
CIA Was Warned of Afghan Attack by Double Agent
By David Wood - Politics DailyThe CIA was warned about a Jordanian double agent three weeks before the man detonated a suicide bomb at a remote CIA camp in eastern Afghanistan last December, the CIA acknowledged Tuesday. The blast killed seven CIA agents, including the commander of the base, Jennifer Matthews, an expert on al-Qaeda. Six CIA officers were wounded in the attack. The CIA said an internal investigation of the incident turned up multiple lapses, including the failure of a CIA officer in Jordan to pass on the warning, as well as security lapses at the secret CIA camp. The double agent, Jordanian doctor Humam ...
Opinion: White House Exits Normal? Not By a Long Shot
By Richard Benedetto - AOL News(Oct. 13) -- It has become a mantra in the news media these days to include in every story about the departure of another high-level Obama White House official the cautionary declaration that "it is normal for appointees to leave after a president's first two years." The unspoken message here is that this is not a case of rats deserting a sinking ship, it's just routine housecleaning. But just how "normal" is it for a slew of high-ranking White House appointees to leave in the first two years? You don't have to look back too far to discover that, in fact, it's not so "normal" after ...
Pakistan Cuts Key NATO Supply Route
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Sept. 30) -- Pakistan halted NATO deliveries along a key supply route into Afghanistan today, in apparent retaliation for a coalition helicopter strike hours earlier that killed three Pakistani soldiers at a border post. NATO and Pakistani officials gave differing accounts of the missile strike. Unidentified Pakistani security sources told the Los Angeles Times that three NATO choppers crossed into Pakistan's Kurram tribal region before dawn and fired on an outpost belonging to the Frontier Corps, a border security unit. Three soldiers were killed and another three wounded. But NATO ...
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