January 5th 2009
Obama’s CIA Pick – A Huge HUH?
Let’s see … last time I checked, we were fighting a global war against jihadist Islam, the Russians were acting particularly nasty, China’s been busy stealing our military secrets, India and Pakistan are huffing and puffing, Israel and Hamas are warring, and Ahmadinejad and Li’l Kim are messing with nukes … so the PEOTUS nominates Leon Panetta as CIA chief?
Yes, sure you’ve got to be good at protecting secrets to be Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, but that’s hardly qualification enough to head up our primary international intelligence gathering facility at any time, let alone times like these.
In congress, Panetta served as chairman of the House Budget Committee; the Agriculture Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition; the Administration Committee’s Subcommittee on Personnel and Police; the House Select Committee on Hunger’s Task Force on Domestic Hunger; Vice Chairman of the Caucus of Vietnam-Era Veterans in Congress, and member of the President’s Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies. He was also a member of not particular significance on the 9/11 Commission.
Am I missing some standout qualification here?
Obama justified the curious and downright dangerous nomination by saying … nothing.
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