Obama has decided to appoint Leon Panetta as head of the CIA. That is a really weird choice. Panetta was the guy in charge of dirty tricks for Clinton. He had his hands full with handling "bimbo eruptions." Obama says that he wants the CIA to tell him the true situation, not what they think he wants to hear. That sounds good to me because I have seen a lot of CEOs who surrounded themselves with yes-men, to their eventual detriment. Obama said that with veiled criticism of President Bush; he has bought into the myth that intelligence agencies told Bush what he wanted to hear. The Democrats have erased from memory that the intelligence agencies told Clinton the same thing they told Bush.

Some of the right wing bloggers think Panetta will be the one in charge of Obama's brownshirts. That seems unlikely since the CIA doesn't operate inside the US. But, there are some Democrats who don't thank much of Panetta as head of the CIA.

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