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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (4711)	1/10/2009 9:48:49 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 103300

"Is Mr. Panetta the right man? His résumé suggests that he is smart, and smart in the ways of Washington. Eight terms as a Democratic congressman. Head of the Office of Management and Budget. A strong-minded chief of staff in Bill Clinton’s famously chaotic White House. Member of the sensible Iraq Study Group. In a column last year for The Monterey County Herald, Mr. Panetta wrote: “Torture is illegal, immoral, dangerous, and counterproductive. And yet, the president is using fear to trump the law.” He also rejected Mr. Bush’s illegal, warrantless eavesdropping on Americans. We do not minimize the challenges Mr. Panetta will face if he is confirmed. He will have to master a bureaucracy where secrecy is truly the coin of the realm — all at a very dangerous time for this country. Mr. Obama’s decision to ask Stephen Kappes, the C.I.A.’s second in command, to stay on should make that easier — although we have some misgivings since Mr. Kappes had direct oversight of the agency’s secret prisons. Mr. Panetta and Admiral Dennis Blair — Mr. Obama’s pick to be director of national intelligence — will have to decide whether the post-9/11 reorganization makes sense or has just added another layer of bureaucracy. Mr. Panetta may not be an intelligence professional, but he is honest and sensible and not easily cowed. Those sound like good credentials for a very hard job."