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

To: PROLIFE who wrote (4726)	1/10/2009 1:16:38 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

Panetta did a superb job as head of the Budget. He is an excellent manger.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (4726)	1/10/2009 8:02:44 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

At an agency that feels constantly under siege, Panetta could become a popular director if he is able to raise the CIA's stature against the Pentagon and other intelligence agencies. Past CIA directors like R. James Woolsey, President Bill Clinton's first director of central intelligence, failed on that front. Woolsey was so rarely asked into the Oval Office that he once joked that a small plane that crashed on the White House lawn in 1994 was just him trying to get a meeting with the president. At the same time, Panetta will have an obstacle between him and the president that Woolsey never had. The CIA is no longer the lodestar in the constellation of U.S. intelligence agencies, and Panetta will answer to Admiral Dennis Blair, Obama's choice to be director of national intelligence.