WASHINGTON — CIA Director Leon Panetta has been on the losing end of a string of high-profile battles over the agency's past missteps, stoking q...
Newsweek | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
NEWSWEEK's disclosure that attorney General Eric Holder Jr. may appoint a prosecutor to investigate detainee abuse has revived tensions in the Obama a...
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
Obama faces a steady drip, drip, drip of stories leaking and becoming public. Wiretapping stories, torture stories, and secret CIA covert stories were all in the news in the past week alone.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
The Washington Post has more details on the secret program that CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed this week had been hidden from Congress since 2001....
Newsweek | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
CIA director Leon Panetta has ordered an internal inquiry into the agency's handling of a contentious and still highly-classified intelligence program...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
CIA Director Leon Panetta told lawmakers in a recent briefing that the intelligence agency he heads misled Congress on "significant actions" for a "nu...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
Pelosi can be defended for being in an impossible situation at the time. Even if she disagreed with the policy, there simply wasn't much for her to do about it.
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — CIA Director nominee Leon Panetta assured senators Thursday that the Obama administration will not send prisoners to countries for ...
New York Times | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
With President Obama's national security team nearly all in place, there is one high-level appointee who could still be weeks away from walking into h...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
What a week! With Congress back in session, with the excitement of newly-elected members being sworn in (or barred at the door, as the case may be), ...
AP | PAMELA HESS and LOLITA BALDOR | Posted 02.09.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — Promising to protect the United States while adhering to its core human values, President-elect Barack Obama formally unveiled his ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics
This doesn't sound a whole lot like "change we can believe in." This sounds more like same-old-same-old cronyism and pay-to-play.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics
The Obama transition team made a mistake by not consulting with Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California before choosing Leon Panetta to head th...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics