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By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyOn the defensive over the revelation that top Democrats in the House and Senate knew about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorist detainees from the very earliest days of the controversial program, Democrats on Capitol Hill are complaining that the CIA is engaging in a deliberate media campaign to embarrass the party. The charge revolves around a 10-page summary of briefings given to members of Congress on the CIA interrogations prepared at the request of Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. The report shows that Democrats in ...
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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