Is Leon Panetta in charge at the CIA or NOT?

[scheming daemons]

If so? WTF? Constant leaks.. many with false information. Get a handle on it, Leon.



If not? WTF? Who is?

[rockymountaindem]

1. What leaks?

I haven't read about any since yesterday.

[MarjorieG]

2. Leon Panetta just came on board. The Iraq War and Iran Contra were other admins, but clandestine

above the law mindset and culture always with us. Beyond his control.

[polichick]

3. Really - where is he in all this?!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. still shaking from the dressing down Rahm gave him last week.

[polichick]

7. I must've missed that - what went down between them?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. some gossip scribe dined not far away, and apparently

Rahm was chewing out Panetta a new asshole. Very one sided, very loud conversation. But, that's Rahm's only volume. (or it was as my congresscritter)

[polichick]

16. Interesting - thanks!

[Justitia]

5. We are talking about the CIA here - they operate in a totally different realm.

Trust me, the CIA probably barely notices Panetta - as it has always been w/that organization.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. That's the work of Cheney's "stay behinds".

Fascist fucking fifth columnists.

[polichick]

8. He just released a statement sticking up for the CIA - on msnbc now.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

10. And at a macro level he called Pelosi a liar

The words were nice and very PC, but there is no missing the intent

[BeFree]

13. Imagine

If he had said the people under him lied. He'd be signing his death warrant.

He HAD to say that the CIA doesn't lie. Nothing else he could say.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

17. Disagree, it could easily have blamed it on the prior administration

and gone along. That he called her on it is a really big deal inside the beltway. It would not have done it without White House approval.

[malaise]

14. That's administrative PR

he has to defend his agency

[ThomWV]

9. Of course not, he just got there. He may make some changes, but it was there before him

and it will be there long after he is gone.

[Supersedeas]

12. Leon drank the Koolaid -- American and Congress should keep their nose out of CIA business.

[LSK]

15. he wasnt in charge in 2002 and 2003, thats for sure