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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 ...
Intelligence Chief: 'Tough Road' Ahead in Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL News(June 27) -- CIA Director Leon Panetta said Sunday that it has been since the "early 2000s" that the U.S. had good intelligence on the whereabouts of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden but believes he has holed up in the tribal areas of Pakistan. ...
It's Torture, Stupid: Why Obama Picked Leon Panetta to Head the CIA
By David Knowles - Politics DailyFred Kaplan has a good piece at Slate today laying out a theory as to the calculus Barack Obama used to pick former Clinton Chief of Staff Leon Panetta as his nominee to head up the CIA:This has been Obama's persistent dilemma on the matter of picking a CIA chief (and the reason it has taken him so long to do so); finding someone who is a) up on the issues and the workings of the intelligence bureaucracy but b) not tainted by the Bush administration's record on renditions, torture, or extralegal surveillance.Panetta's pick suggests that no such person exists--and that, if forced to make ...
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