1.0 link 155744 <![CDATA[Obama Puts Out The Panetta Fire]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/06/obama-puts-out-the-pannet_n_155744.html Barack Obama was forced into his first real rift with congressional Democrats on Monday when two influential Senators complained publicly about not having been consulted on his choice for head of the Central Intelligence Agency.

That evening and extending into Tuesday, the president-elect took his first swipe at intra-party damage control. Sources close to the transition tell the Huffington Post that shortly after Sen. Dianne Feinstein raised her complaints about Obama's choice of Leon Panetta, the California Democrat fielded an apologetic...

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