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sorry Panetta is a political lightweighton the job training? the experienced people fucked up big time and Panetta is no light weight. It will be alright. Stop worrying your pretty little head over these things. Let the big kids handle it.
OK so you are on drugs.
It was a compliment you dope. I gave del a rep for it. I even said I would in the post. I like using slang sometimes and del's word was great slang.
Get help DN...
sorry Panetta is a political lightweight
has ZERO experience in security
hes a budget guy
So I had a typo - big deal. What does that prove, except that I'm human?
Does that mean I get my "groundlessly smug superiority" back? Or do you even remember where you put it? Its probably wherever you keep your crack pipe - try there...oh poor puppy. please don't make mad at me...
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well, honestly, it looks like a political payoffyou seem so very sure of it all. why? do you know Panetta? Why would all those experts on Obama's transition team...the ones with security credentials up the yoohoo, go along with this?
hmmmmmmm,
well, honestly, it looks like a political payoff
i cant understand why he wants the position, but who knows
Leon Edward Panetta (born June 28, 1938) is a Democratic politician and scholar from California's Central Coast.
He served as White House Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton, and before that was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.
He is the founder and director of the Panetta Institute, serves as Distinguished Scholar to the Chancellor of the California State University system and is a professor at Jesuit-run Santa Clara University teaching public policy.
On January 5, 2009, Fox News reported that President-elect Barack Obama will name him Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.[1]
Political career
Panetta started in politics in 1966 as a legislative assistant to Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel, the United States Senate Minority Whip from California, whom Panetta has called "a tremendous role model"[2].
In 1969 he became the assistant to Robert H. Finch, Secretary of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare under the Nixon administration. Soon thereafter he was appointed Director of the Office for Civil Rights.
Panetta chose to enforce civil rights and equal education laws, even under alleged political pressure not to from then-president Nixon.
Robert Mardian said of Panetta: "Doesn't he understand Nixon promised the Southern delegates he would stop enforcing the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts?"[3]. Secretary Robert Finch and Assistant Secretary John Veneman refused to fire Panetta, threatening to resign if forced to do so. A few weeks later in 1970, Panetta resigned and left Washington to work as Executive Assistant for John Lindsay, the Republican Mayor of New York City.
He wrote about this experience in his 1971 book Bring Us Together: The Nixon Team and the Civil Rights Retreat.
He moved back to Monterey to practice law at Panetta, Thompson & Panetta from 1971 through to 1976.
[edit] Congressional work
Panetta switched to the Democratic Party in 1971, because he thought that the Republican Party was moving away from the political center, and it was working against Civil Rights legislation.
In 1976, Panetta was elected to the U.S. Congress to represent California's 16th congressional district, unseating incumbent Republican Burt Talcott with 53% of the vote (the 17th district after the 1990 census), and was reelected for nine terms.
During his time in Congress, his work concentrated mostly on budget issues, civil rights, education, health, and environmental issues, particularly preventing oil drilling off the California coast. He wrote the Hunger Prevention Act (Public Law 100-435) of 1988 and the Fair Employment Practices Resolution. He was a major factor in establishing the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
His positions included:
* Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on the Budget
* Chairman of the Agriculture Committee's Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition
* Chairman of the Administration Committee's Subcommittee on Personnel and Police
* Chairman of the Task Force on Domestic Hunger created by the U.S. House Select Committee on Hunger
* Vice Chairman of the Caucus of Vietnam-Era Veterans in Congress
* Member of the President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies.
sorry Panetta is a political lightweight
has ZERO experience in security
hes a budget guy
now what the political talking heads are saying DiveCon is that Panetta is a "firewall" between the CIA and the obamalama. Remember the CIA sold Bush out? Yes, and the other thing is Panetta is pro US Army Field Manuel strictly, so in essence obamalama has caved to the left. We will have tea parties with the terrorists.
Good News... Sandy Berger Endorses Panetta!!!! LOL
Obama circumventing Feinstein might put a snag on this choice. Let's hope so. This guy has no intel experience.
Hey Captain Obvious, D'oh! so fukin' what? what is your beef besides spouting the obvious? why would intel experience be necessary for running a huge agency? wouldn't managerial experience be more important?
how about a spy with NO managerial experience? do you know what most of the CIA chiefs did before they became CIA chief? no, you do not.
You don't know what I know and what I don't so fuck off.
