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Panetta To Head CIA

President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for the nation’s top spy post is short on direct intelligence experience. Obama’s choice to head the CIA...

Federal News Network Staff

January 7, 2009 5:23 pm

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President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for the nation’s top spy post is short on direct intelligence experience. Obama’s choice to head the CIA was a surprise. Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta has lots of administrative and congressional experience…but questions are already being raised about his lack of intelligence experience. More from John Diamond — the author of “The CIA and the Culture of Failure.”Click to hear the interview.