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Rumors Surface That Leon Panetta is Resigning
www.redstate.com ^ | 8/26/2009 | Redstate

Posted on 08/26/2009 12:24:42 PM PDT by JerseyRepub

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To: frogjerk

I wonder what Hillary might do? She’s clearly a figurehead at State. If she were to resign also, Obama would be in a world of sh-, politically.


141 posted on 08/26/2009 1:54:45 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: JerseyRepub
Our friends at Restate are hearing credible rumors that Leon Panetta is quitting over the proposed proersocution of CIA operatives. fixed
142 posted on 08/26/2009 1:55:13 PM PDT by IDFbunny
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To: JerseyRepub
Like any other leftist, Leon Panetta has no scruples, so he wouldn't resign because of that. The fact is, he's just been PUNK'D and his ego can't take it. No one likes being made out the fool.

Remember, for every cabinet post holder or or high administative appointed post, Obama has a shadow czar....and between the twenty-or-so of them they set the ultimate, definitive policies.

Look for other resignations, including Secretary of Understate Hitlery. Panetta can't be the only administration official who didn't expect tovarich czars coming out of nowhere undercutting their hoped-for policy relationships with the Annointed One.

Leni

143 posted on 08/26/2009 1:56:17 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: McGruff
I fear that some shootings will ensue.What a banana republic this idiot has wrought!

How do we save it?

144 posted on 08/26/2009 1:56:56 PM PDT by Candor7 (The weapons of choice against fascism are ridicule ,derision ,truth. (member NRA)
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To: PGR88
"He is probably powerless and stuck in the middle. The CIA people probably see him as an Obama stooge, and on the other side, he probably has to take ridiculous marching orders from Rahm Emmanuel. Who would want that?"

Rahm probably fired him for siding with Americas interests.

145 posted on 08/26/2009 1:57:01 PM PDT by blam
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To: dinoparty
The scary thing is: who will Obama pick to replace Panetta? it would have to be somebody who agrees with the investigation of the interrogators!Obama would have to send a nominee up to the Senate Intelligence Committee at some point. Imagine the opportunity for speechifying on the entire topic of potential indictments at CIA?
146 posted on 08/26/2009 1:57:22 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: OrangeHoof

It is all true but the footage of her husband doing her job in Nkorea and then her spouting off about it put her in her place. She will look like a fool running for POTUS.


147 posted on 08/26/2009 1:59:36 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: McGruff

Thanks for posting that quote from Zer0.

It’s obvious that Panetta demanded such a statement - in public and in front of his “employees” - as a condition of taking the job.

I don’t care what his politics are, Panetta wouldn’t have wanted that job in the context of a morale-busting and disruptive Bolshevist witch hunt.

Looks like someone lied to him.


148 posted on 08/26/2009 2:01:32 PM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
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To: Uncle Ike

Can we make obama a verb and a noun? Used as such it could mean to destroy and destruction.


149 posted on 08/26/2009 2:02:41 PM PDT by bergmeid
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To: OrangeHoof
I expect that as the wheels start coming off the Obama Clunker Wagon, the Clintonistas will be among the first to jump ship.

Hillary will probably stay the longest, but that's just to make sure everyone gets off and those that don't will be blackballed.

Can you imagine a bleeding heart, dyed in the wool Hopey Changer in charge of the CIA? There will be an open revolt from the rank and file. Maybe we ought to start floating Valerie Plame as the new director- she's a bonafide ObamaBuffoon!

150 posted on 08/26/2009 2:03:03 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment (Is this field required?)
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To: bert
lets see....didn’t a CIA director die in a canoeing accident?

Not only did William Colby die under straaaange circumstances. Here's a trifecta:

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"Merrill Apparently Shot Himself On the Bay, June 21, 2006

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The development was a startling turn in a tragedy that began June 10, when Merrill's boat, the Merrilly, was found under full sail but with no one aboard, drifting in a stiff breeze near Plum Point. A recreational boater found his body Monday near Poplar Island, more than 11 miles from where the Merrilly was discovered.

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Recast as an apparent suicide, his death strikingly parallels that of John A. Paisley, a former high-level CIA employee. In 1978, Paisley disappeared while sailing across the bay. His body was found with a fatal gunshot wound a week later near Solomons Island in what was ruled a suicide.

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The loss also recalls the death of former CIA director William E. Colby, who died from drowning and exposure in 1996 after apparently falling from a canoe off Charles County. His body was recovered more than a week later, and authorities said he probably had a stroke or heart attack before the accident."

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wapost

151 posted on 08/26/2009 2:03:59 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: JerseyRepub

Greasy as he is and he cant work for odumbo, America what have you done!!!


152 posted on 08/26/2009 2:04:19 PM PDT by italianquaker (“Every inch of this Administration is rife with corruption and cronyism.” --- Michelle Malkin)
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To: JerseyRepub

Leon is stuck in the middle of a pissing contest. The only thing that happens then is that you get wet...


153 posted on 08/26/2009 2:04:32 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: dinoparty
The scary thing is: who will Obama pick to replace Panetta? it would have to be somebody who agrees with the investigation of the interrogators!

Bill Ayers?

154 posted on 08/26/2009 2:07:10 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 217 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: your local physicist
I don’t think any serious democrat challengers will emerge against Obama in 2012.

There will be if Obama's Big Money donors start to get antsy. That money will be seeking a candidate. This is the Democrat Party we are talking about. The party where the sitting incumbent gets little respect and draws multiple primary opponents.

155 posted on 08/26/2009 2:07:33 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: JerseyRepub

This CIA investigation thing is a transparent way to redirect our attention from the unmitigated disaster called the Obama administration...


156 posted on 08/26/2009 2:07:37 PM PDT by John123 (My Definition of Liberals - Folks who validates their existence by calling someone a racist.)
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To: null and void

Im sure he has a radical commie lawyer in mind already.


157 posted on 08/26/2009 2:09:58 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: BenLurkin

wise assessment - I agree


158 posted on 08/26/2009 2:12:08 PM PDT by Revelation 911 (How many 100's of 1000's of our servicemen died so we would never bow to a king?" -freeper pnh102)
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To: Red Steel

Was Colby the one that had a steak dinner with his wife and then he is dead on a boat?


159 posted on 08/26/2009 2:12:10 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: Candor7

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Thanks again.


160 posted on 08/26/2009 2:12:58 PM PDT by Rushmore Rocks
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