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Posted on 08/24/2009 8:47:58 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
A "profanity-laced screaming match" at the White House involving CIA Director Leon Panetta, and the expected release today of another damning internal investigation, has administration officials worrying about the direction of its newly-appoint intelligence team, current and former senior intelligence officials tell ABC News.com.[snip]
[snip]A White House spokesperson, Denis McDonough, said reports that Panetta had threatened to quit and that the White House was seeking a replacement were "inaccurate."
According to intelligence officials, Panetta erupted in a tirade last month during a meeting with a senior White House staff member. Panetta was reportedly upset over plans by Attorney General Eric Holder to open a criminal investigation of allegations that CIA officers broke the law in carrying out certain interrogation techniques that President Obama has termed "torture."..............
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I’d be happier with one term and no health care reform. No capntax, no amnesity and kill the stimulus. Works for me.
When the President annexes the secret-ops department to himself, one wonders if there will BE a “next election”.
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