Leon Panetta

...Jim Jones tried and failed. Now it looks as if Vice President Joe Biden's effort to referee the dispute between CIA Director Leon Panetta and his boss, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, has not completely resolved the differences...

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...where those convicted are not likely to serve their time." U.S. President Barack Obama has not ruled out renditions and CIA Director Leon Panetta told a Senate briefing early this year that suspects might still be sent to third countries for...

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...of his CIA-led abduction, as the United States was preparing to invade Iraq, indicated his potential importance. CIA Director Leon Panetta said at his confirmation hearing in February that the administration would continue the practice...

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...inner circle. This White House is disproportionately different. But Obama's West Wing is devoid of governing wise men (think Leon Panetta for Bill Clinton, James Baker for the first George Bush and Clark Clifford for multiple...

In this article: Barack Obama, White House, West Wing, Rahm Emanuel, and Bill Clinton

...and deprived of legal counsel. " During his appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee last February, CIA nominee Leon Panetta, now Agency Director, said, "I think renditions where we return individuals to another country where...

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U.S. Needs Hit Squads, 'Manhunting Agency': Spec Ops Report CIA director Leon Panetta got into hot water with Congress, after he revealed an agency program to hunt down and kill terrorists. A recent report from the U.S. military's Joint...

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...national-security decisions that seem, these days, to have been completely forgotten: Appointing an establishment centrist like Leon Panetta at CIA. Appointing a hard-ass like Stanley McChrystal to head up our military forces in...

In this article: Barack Obama, Stanley McChrystal, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Populism

...to build bridges between India and Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai attacks. The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta, has attempted to promote intelligence-sharing between New Delhi and Islamabad to guard against...

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...the law requiring them to be apprised of key operations. The inquiry was prompted by the disclosure in June by new CIA Director Leon E. Panetta that in 2001 the agency had proposed forming assassination teams to target al-Qaeda leaders but...

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...which Congress was deliberately misled or kept in the dark about significant intelligence programs. The most recent was CIA Director Leon Panetta's report to the committee in June about an undisclosed eight-year old program to target...

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