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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Fred 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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