Over the past few weeks, Leon Panetta has emerged as an obstacle to real reform and accountability at the CIA. Rather than exerting strong leadership, Panetta is toeing the line on CIA's pet parochial concerns, such as protecting CIA officers and contractors from investigative scrutiny and insisting on suppression of information widely known via media coverage.
When the Obama transition team named Leon Panetta as CIA Director earlier this year, his advocates portrayed him as a no-nonsense Beltway veteran who would...
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