Posts Tagged ‘leon panetta’

Rebuilding the wall

August 25th, 2009 | 2 Comments

It’s telling me that the policies of Jamie Gorelick and Bill Clinton/Janet Reno are back. That was my opinion January 5 of this year when Obama put Leon Panetta in charge of the Central Intelligence Agency.  As of now, the Central Intelligence Agency will not be allowed to glean intelligence from war prisoners.  The Federal [...]

The Republicanization of Leon Panetta

July 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Nancy Pelosi is sure of two things: No Democrat has ever done anything deceptive or the least bit beyond reproach.  Ever. All Republicans and the CIA have lied to her.  A lot. Which leads to the obvious conclusion one has to come to when they see headlines like this: Panetta Testified CIA Misled Congress, Dems [...]

Obama’s hiccups

January 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Everyone is saying this has been a near-flawless transition: It had to come some time. Despite a nearly flawless transition period of astute, substantive and widely praised cabinet appointments, the nascent Obama administration has unintentionally provoked its first controversy. Significantly, it is in the sphere of national security. I haven’t been quite as impressed. Bill [...]

Obama’s first wave of change

January 5th, 2009 | 1 Comment

People voted for “change” without ever really considering what the “change” was about.  Today we got a few examples. Bill Richardson, under investigation for pay to play politics ( read taking bribes ), was nevertheless nominated to a cabinet position under Obama’s “change”.  He withdrew his nomination today.  There’s no change when it comes to [...]

Leon Panetta to head the CIA?

January 5th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Been reading that Obama is planning on naming Leon Panetta head of the CIA. A while back I did a series of posts on basically what happened when the security of the United States was wonked to death by people more interested in internal policies than doing what was necessary to protect us.  Basically, the [...]