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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

Our friends at Restate are hearing credible rumors that Leon Panetta is quitting over the proposed procecution of CIA operatives. If this is true, kudos to Leon...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhocia; bhodoj; cia; ciaprobes; obama; panetta; resignation; rumors
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To: JerseyRepub

You think agents will like his replacement? No way in hell. Hi task will be to destroy them.


41 posted on 08/26/2009 12:40:01 PM PDT by ryan71 (What the hell's up with spell check?)
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To: Busywhiskers
"He is stupid if he doesn’t."

He will surely identify himself as the last Democrat patriot, if he does - which is probably why he won't.

42 posted on 08/26/2009 12:40:08 PM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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To: dinoparty

When Rats eat their own it’s a wunerful thang__even though ugaly on the merits.


43 posted on 08/26/2009 12:40:11 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: dinoparty

Would a Panetta replacement have to be confirmed by the Senate?


44 posted on 08/26/2009 12:40:17 PM PDT by cblue55
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To: NoKoolAidforMe

..the first time I saw this, I knew at some point...

45 posted on 08/26/2009 12:40:24 PM PDT by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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To: JerseyRepub

I can tell you one thing: I trust the CIA more than any other government agency. I think that Panetta is the least like Obama in his admin. I think that Panetta realizes that the job the CIA takes on is far above that of politics and it must not be subject to political crap. If Panetta resigns, it will send a powerful message to the people.


46 posted on 08/26/2009 12:40:26 PM PDT by FutureRocketMan
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To: JerseyRepub
For a partisan hack like Panetta to resign, he must feel that Obama is out of control. A small show of humanity and sanity from a long time liberal. That is, if true.
47 posted on 08/26/2009 12:42:41 PM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: bert

Does he lose the CIA pension? Somehow I doubt it.


48 posted on 08/26/2009 12:42:48 PM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: JerseyRepub

I am not shocked — he got really mad when he heard this might happen according to press reports. There is also a report that he is not going to be the last that wants to get out of this Administration in the near term.


49 posted on 08/26/2009 12:43:04 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Coburn - Senate 2010 ! Take Back the House/Senate! Stop ZERO!)
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To: bert
"lets see....didn’t a CIA director die in a canoeing accident?"

Panetta should stay out of Ft. Marcy Park, at all cost, not to mention the avoidance of any air travel to Croatia.

50 posted on 08/26/2009 12:44:08 PM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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To: RatRipper
You nailed it. I was appalled when this commie was appointed to head up CIA. That he is resigning indicates how bad things are and are getting in the administration.
51 posted on 08/26/2009 12:45:14 PM PDT by east1234 (It's the borders stupid! My new environmentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
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To: JerseyRepub

I thought it was a complete joke to appoint Panetta, but anyone that is against Obama on the CIA interrogations I gotta give props to.


52 posted on 08/26/2009 12:45:42 PM PDT by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system. I am Jim Thompson.)
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To: Busywhiskers

He was never quite as evil as his party leaders. Who would want to lead the CIA with the CIA’s sworn enemies - communists - having infiltrated the Executive Branch.

It seems he kicked it off to cooperate in the persecution of agents by claiming falsely the CIA had an operative assination program. Now he has cold feet.


53 posted on 08/26/2009 12:46:17 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: JerseyRepub

Do you think the CIA has the true facts about where 0bammy was born?


54 posted on 08/26/2009 12:46:36 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (FUBO - No socialist Bureaucrat on a Death Panel is going to decide whether I live or die!)
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To: cblue55
Would a Panetta replacement have to be confirmed by the Senate?

In the old days ( before Obama ) then yes. These days you never know how things will come down considering the left just ignores laws and rules that are inconvenient to them.

55 posted on 08/26/2009 12:47:19 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: FutureRocketMan
I used to lump all Libs into one basket.

I have learned that their are differences between Libs and Progressives. Leon's resignation may show that... I would have some respect for, but still not agree with, a Lib who truly believes their path is the best for the country.

I have NO respect for a Progressive that is intent on pushing us towards Socialism/Fascism.

56 posted on 08/26/2009 12:48:47 PM PDT by Max_850
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To: bert
lets see....didn’t a CIA director die in a canoeing accident?

I'm not sure it was a director, but he was definitely a higher up.

In any case, I'd be surprised if Panetta resigns, but you never know. However, with this publicity, I don't think even Obama would dare to reach out and touch him. Not yet, at least, until he has put his own totally glued-to-his-rump boy in the slot.

57 posted on 08/26/2009 12:49:25 PM PDT by livius
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To: JerseyRepub

Leon surpised me with his seemingly honest role in the Jay Report investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Who knows? Perhaps a bit of integrity remains under the corrupt exterior of some of these people.


58 posted on 08/26/2009 12:51:04 PM PDT by Antoninus (Sarah Palin will soon have more fans on Facebook than most major newspapers have readers.)
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To: bert

http://ngothelinh.tripod.com/wcolby.htm


59 posted on 08/26/2009 12:52:16 PM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: JerseyRepub

Smart move. Ostammer and his thugs sandbagged him. He’s not one of their insider Marxist buddies.


60 posted on 08/26/2009 12:53:39 PM PDT by bustinchops
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