[NonValueAdded]

When Intelligence Isn’t A Prerequisite For Intelligence Director

or Junior Senator for New York.

[ClearCase_guy]

I find the whole thing fascinating. Obama is selecting who will be in his inner circle, and choosing bad people, not vetting them, and going about the process in ways which really piss off the people (like Feinstein) who ought to be his natural allies.

This guy is amazingly incompetent. You'd think he'd never held an executive position before. Oh, yeah: he hasn't.

[JimSEA]

Job number one at the CIA is to track down and stop terrorists

What?? I should be to produce accurate and timely information about all of America's opponents in the world. Give the information about terrorists' locations to somebody competent, the military for example.

I want to know about Russian and Chines weapon systems, their location and capabilities, and who is buying them. CIA efforts at regime change have been notoriously inept. They need to stick to spying until they get that right.

[bigbob]

I’d love to see his resume to see if he spelled “Former Clinton Hack” correctly.

[Intolerant in NJ]

This seems another example of the bizarre management notion that’s been around for a number of years which holds that once you’ve run one big organization, you can run any big organization - used to argue about it with a guy, a former Navy man, at the hospital where we worked - he insisted that someone who had commanded a naval vessel could easily walk in and lead a hospital, but for some reason bristled when I suggested that that meant someone who had once led a hospital should be able to take over command of any naval vessel......

[GOP Poet]

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[SeaWolf]

Obama hasn't a clue how and has no intention of running the executive branch, he just wants to “be” president.

[ritewingwarrior]

Feinstein is not the only one. Joe Biden came out against it also. Yeh Joe supports Panetta at the same time he is complaining that more educated and experienced people (my interpretation) should help Obama make that choice.
Looks like Biden was just a show appointment, and Obama is going to treat him like a redheaded stepchild.

From DelawareOnline.

WASHINGTON — Vice President-elect Joe Biden said today that it was a “just a mistake” for President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team not to consult a top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee before selecting Leon Panetta to head the Central Intelligence Agency.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who will lead the committee, reportedly said she knew nothing of the selection, other than what she read in media reports.

“I’m still a Senate man,” Biden told a gaggle of reporters following his seventh swearing-in ceremony to the Senate. “I think it’s always good to talk to the requisite members of Congress. I think it was just a mistake.”

Biden defended the selection of Panetta, President Clinton’s former chief of staff, saying he is “totally qualified” as a longtime “consumer of intelligence.”