Panetta Cia

Leon Panetta's Job Is Secure Despite Losing High-Profile Battles Over CIA Missteps

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics


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...

CIA Was About To Train Anti-Terror Hit Squads When Panetta Ended The Program

Washington Post | Joby Warrick | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics


CIA officials were proposing to activate a plan to train anti-terrorist assassination teams overseas when agency managers brought the secret program t...

Panetta Promises Honesty As CIA Director

AP | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — CIA Director Leon Panetta promised honest leadership as he took the helm Thursday of an agency with a public image tarnished by all...

Sam Stein

Jim Woolsey Praises Panetta, Obama's Foreign Policy Team

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics


Former CIA Director and John McCain adviser Jim Woolsey professes to being "impressed overall by the quality" of Barack Obama's national security team...

Leon Panetta Named To Head The CIA

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 ...

Sam Stein

Obama Puts Out The Panetta Fire

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics


Barack Obama was forced into his first real rift with congressional Democrats on Monday when two influential Senators complained publicly about not ha...