Obama names Clinton crony who’s never worked in intelligence to head CIA; Update: Feinstein, Rockefeller oppose
posted at 3:38 pm on January 5, 2009 by Allahpundit
Why not? He named a Clinton crony with no foreign-policy experience to be Secretary of State, didn’t he?
Ace wonders if this is about having a dependable yes man at the top. Not really. It’s about having a guy at the top who’s untainted by “torture.” So untainted, in fact, that he’s also untainted by any intel experience whatsoever.
Given his background, Mr. Panetta is a somewhat unusual choice to lead the C.I.A., an agency that has been unwelcoming to previous directors perceived as outsiders, such as Stansfield M. Turner and John M. Deutch. But his selection points up the difficulty Mr. Obama had in finding a C.I.A. director with no connection to controversial counterterrorism programs of the Bush era…
Aides have said Mr. Obama had originally hoped to select a C.I.A. head with extensive field experience, especially in combating terrorist networks. But his first choice for the job, John O. Brennan, had to withdraw his name amidst criticism over his role in the formation of the C.I.A’s detention and interrogation program after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Members of Mr. Obama’s transition also raised concerns about other candidates, even some Democratic lawmakers with intelligence experience. Representative Jane Harman of California, formerly the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, had hoped to get the job, but she was ruled out as a candidate in part because of her early support for some Bush administration programs like the domestic eavesdropping program.
Here’s his chief qualification for the job, as near as I can tell. Whether this means Obama’s ready to junk the whole Bush interrogation apparatus or whether he merely wants Panetta as cover to quietly retain certain parts of it — or certain personnel, like Brennan, in lower-profile deputy roles — I guess we’ll see. Meanwhile, Brian Faughnan at Red State forwards an interesting passage from the CIA Library on Panetta’s spending priorities while head of Clinton’s budget office. Read it now, because the GOP’s bound to reference it at the confirmation hearing. Exit quotation: “Was Panetta wrong about the threats the U.S. faces in the 1990s, or was he simply too drive by green eyeshades over national security? Either way, the picture isn’t pretty.”
Update: The confirmation hearing should be fun: Dianne Feinstein and Jay Rockefeller, Democrats both, want to know why The One’s search for a torture-free nominee couldn’t uncover anyone with actual experience. Both of them evidently wanted Steve Kappes, whose recommendation reportedly led the agency to ban waterboarding.
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One more nightmare to add to the list. Indeed, everything the Dems do is torture. Where do I file my grievance?
Buy Danish on January 5, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Might have to take you up on that upinak. The only problem is the cold. I’m a Southern girl. I think it’s cold when it drops below 50 degrees. I’ll keep your advice in mind on Montana, Entelechy. I liked Wyoming a lot when I was out there a couple of years ago.
That makes me feel a little better.
meltenn on January 5, 2009 at 4:47 PM
I took early retirement from CIA in late 1979 as it looked
like 4 more years of Jimmy Carter and his crony Stansfield
Turner. I was a deputy division chief at the time.
I suspect there will now be many careerists like me that bag
it. Perhaps that’s his goal. FUBAR is correct!
Lew_Lew on January 5, 2009 at 4:47 PM
First off, she couldn’t take the pay cut.
Secondly, can you imagine Oprah actually having to think about somebody other than herself or considering other people’s needs? The CIA would take a hit out on their own director in less than six months.
highhopes on January 5, 2009 at 4:48 PM
SNAFU?
Instead of Hope and Change, we have Situation Normal. Heh.
Jaibones on January 5, 2009 at 4:48 PM
A moose is smart enough to not step in a pile of benny shakar, let alone put his hoof into his dumb ass.
portlandon on January 5, 2009 at 4:48 PM
BOHICA
Stands for “Bend Over Here IT Comes Again”.
milwife88 on January 5, 2009 at 4:48 PM
upinak on January 5, 2009 at 4:45 PM
ROFL
Benny, this thread is not about the Governor of Alaska. It is about the extremely poor choice for CIA Director your POTUS- Elect has made.
kingsjester on January 5, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Oh, no – they don’t do that! They value a CIA director with absolutely ZERO intel experience exactly because he is against torture. Time to re-gird you loins for the following four to EIGHT long years. Hope there isn’t blood spilled on American soil because of their over zealous anti-torture of terrorists. But there is good news, not only because of that other thing, but because the world will like us again!!!
wise_man on January 5, 2009 at 4:50 PM
No offense but is getting rid of the CIA careerists entirely a bad thing? Valerie Plame was part of a very smug group of Bush-hating CIA careerists who worked IMO outside the scope of their authority with the expressed intent of undermining the Bush administration. They are traitors.
P.S. I’m hoping that installing an idiot like Hillary Clinton in State will have the same effect with all the careerist traitors in that department.
highhopes on January 5, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Under President Obama, it’s not the right “careerists” that will be leaving the CIA. Plame and everyone with her will absolutely love obama.
wise_man on January 5, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Thanks, Doc!
crazy_legs on January 5, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Hillary Clinton (I dodged sniper fire as I left the plane with Sinbad) could see the Secretary of State’s office while she was Bill Clinton’s wife and lived in the whiteshous for 8 years. So now she can be Secretary of State!
It’s the Hillary Clinton Principle in effect.
wise_man on January 5, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Benny makes Craigslist R&R poster and flagger look sane.
Need I say more?
upinak on January 5, 2009 at 4:56 PM
highhopes on January 5, 2009 at 4:51 PM
I take offense to that. The directorate where I worked (DD/S&T) was in charge of highly technical operations. Most of us worked 10-11 hour days including Saturdays when needed. Our contractor counterparts were paid twice what we received, but we chose served our country.
Be careful who you accuse of political goals in CIA.
Lew_Lew on January 5, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Panetta couldn’t even find his own ass if given a map and a compass. If the CIA is smart, they’ll take him to his office and leave him there. Won’t be heard from again for 4 years.
GarandFan on January 5, 2009 at 5:01 PM
So much for “change” and I “hope” we all can dodge the next terrorist attack. Any one else noticed how much ammo has gone up? Now the price of vodka well that’s a given.
BHRIO on January 5, 2009 at 5:02 PM
highhopes on January 5, 2009 at 4:51 PM
I also spent over 6 years at overseas assignments. Most of us “field hands” had little respect for senior officers whose overseas experience was at London or Paris. We called them “beltway guards”
Lew_Lew on January 5, 2009 at 5:05 PM
It’s okay. Coming from a normal person, this is an insult. But conider the source. This is not the only thing this person is clueless about.
wise_man on January 5, 2009 at 5:05 PM
I’m not at all surprised that PEBO would have a hard time finding a Democrat for the top CIA position. After all, Democrat and Intelligence are two opposing terms.
UltimateBob on January 5, 2009 at 5:06 PM
That would be a big fat negative, they’re all over in Kenya or on some of Fitz’s tapes.
Gotta go and dig thru my folks attic for those old bomb shelter plans they got way back in 1961. Screw the guns and vodka, I’m going all out lol
Knucklehead on January 5, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Was Donald Duck unavailable for the CIA job? Or was it a problem with all the torture that we would see in cartoons (pans being smacked against cartoon characters’ faces hard enough to flatten out their whole face?
On the bright side, the reign of the idiot messiah will only encourage the development of private intelligence agencies, which is a good thing since our government organizations have been so hamstrung by fanciful theories and regulations as to have been relegated to the ‘joke’ pile.
progressoverpeace on January 5, 2009 at 5:10 PM
FIFY
Yoop on January 5, 2009 at 5:10 PM
Clinton third term and Feinstein will be their second victim.
Payback time.
getalife on January 5, 2009 at 5:13 PM
This proves beyond any reasonable doubt that 0bama and the democrat party is intent on destroying the ability of the nation to defend itself against the onslaught of Islam.
The Senate must not confirm him.
Amazed on January 5, 2009 at 5:18 PM
How ’bout we coin a new term, SNAFUBAR, just for Barry’s Bunch.
Oldnuke on January 5, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Now didn’t I start out telling you that no offense was intended? The careerists I was talking about are the Valerie Plames of the world; Individuals who clearly were working against the Exuctive Branch administration. I thought it was clear I was not referring to the rank-and-file career employees- particularly in the timeframe you were working there. It was a far different organization then.
During that period (late 70s), my dad was working at the Defense Mapping Agency and went to Langley regularly to discuss programs I only have a vague sense of knowing about. I remember a parking pass I saw one time. There wasn’t one indication what the pass was for. Likewise there wasn’t a single sign indicating the entrance from 123 though everybody knew what was at the end of that turn lane.
Again, no offense was intended but you didn’t make a distinction between careerists. The behind-the-scenes careerists are far different from the Valarie Plame careerists who are nothing more than frustrated politicians who think they know better than their bosses.
highhopes on January 5, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Why do I get the creeping, annoying feeling that there will be another Carter ‘Night Of The Long Knives’ around August that will make the Church Commission look like a quiet Sunday picnic?
Jack.
Jack Deth on January 5, 2009 at 5:33 PM
We all know Hillary is the one who will be actually running the country once Obama gets swarn in. It is only right that Obama selects trusted Clinton associates for key government positions. I am not surprised. He tried to go against the Clintons with Bill Richardson. We all know how that turned out.
kanda on January 5, 2009 at 5:34 PM
I’m assuming you mean Davis. Sadly, the Senate generally gives latitude to the incoming administration when it comes to these appointments.
Personally, I think the Senate Republicans should save their rounds for an all out attack on the appointment of Hillary Clinton as SECSTATE. It’s a critical job. She’s far more unqualified for that job than Davis is for the CIA job (which takes some doing). There’s no way she will ever be outside ethical scrutiny after eight years of Bill Clinton whoring for money around the globe with no clear process to make this ethical conflict transparent.
highhopes on January 5, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Anti-American/Pro-Jihadi Democratic Traitor Leftist Nutbags (a series of redundant terms, I know…), believe in conspiracy theories left and right.
I don’t believen in 99% of them, based upon personal experience, but I see an interesting possibility here.
Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s (PBUH)(SAW)(SWT) only has One Qualification…that is his over-whelming Arrogance.
He is a stupid man, he has no qualifications whatsoever, he’s an idiot, he can’t speak without a Teleprompter, and everything he has every accomplished in life, was handed to him via Affirmitive Action, by the very country that he and his wife hate to very core of their Anti-American/Pro-Jihadi/Anti-White/Anti-Semitic Marxist-Muslim beings.
Part of Obama’s (PBUH) arrogance, is his apparant belief that he can neutralize the Clintonistas and their overweening ambition, by pre-empting them.
He thinks he’s done this, by appointing Clintonistas to major positions in his upcoming Administration…at last count, at least 63% of his upcoming Administration is composed of Clintonistas!
Thus, Obama (PBUH), thru his arrogance, thinks he has co-opted the Clintonistas, that he can now control them, and that he has guaranteed himself 8 years in the Oval Office to implement his Anti-American/Pro-Jihadi Leftist policies.
Me, I see the exact opposition happening, I see the Clintonistas, having been frustrated by Hillary’s loss of the Democratic Nomination thru sheer incompentence, utilizing Obama’s (PBUH) attempt to co-opt them, by actually setting up Obama (PBUH) for a reverse co-opt; kind of what they did to Bush 43, with all the Clintonista Traitors that Bush 43, in his naive and foolish attempts to appear “bipartisan” openly embraced, that enbled them to leak to the press, and frustrate Bush’s policies from the very beginning, with Clintonista Democratic Traitors such as O’Neill, Tenant, Pual Bremmer, etc.
We saw the damage that just a few key Clintonistas in Bush 43 Administration did to him, and his policies, and the War on Terror.
Can you imagine, what they will do to Obama (PBUH), with his upcoming Administration comprising up to 63%+ of them?
With Hillary, running her own Fiefdom over at State, and backed by Bill, can you imagine the damage they will do to Obama (BPUH) with leaks, etc., to the Press.
Not to mention all the Senators and Congressmen they control, as well as all the Federal Judges and Federal Attorney’s they control, from their time in the White House!
Obama (PBUH) is not going to know what hit him, by openly embracing these evil bastards, thinking that he is co-opting them instead!
Could we have, for the first time in US History, a sitting Sec State, Hillary, challenging Barack HUSSEIN Obama (PBUH) for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in 2010 or 2011, after they’ve worked behind the scenes to destroy his Administration for 2 – 3 years?
One can only Pray that this is true, it would be absolutely delicious to watch….
Dale in Atlanta on January 5, 2009 at 5:39 PM
According to what I just heard on Fox News, Diane Feinstein didn’t have a clue about the Panetta appointment.
Is Ms. Feinstein already hearing that thump, thump, thump?
Knucklehead on January 5, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Probably because, as we enter Carter’s second term, all indications make that feeling completely rational.
highhopes on January 5, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Actually Bill will, with her in the semi-background, but taking all the credit. Barry and her made a deal, he for 8, she for the next 8.
Entelechy on January 5, 2009 at 5:51 PM
This inexperienced idiot is going to get all of us killed. Those systems put into place have, no doubt, prevented countless attacks that no one besides top level admin. officials will ever know about.
When they attack again and kill 30, 000, I wonder how strong their attacks against wiretapping will be?
TheBlueSite on January 5, 2009 at 5:54 PM
no mystery here.
the Fool wants to destroy the CIA
notagool on January 5, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Must read…
http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2009/01/02/alavi-foundation-clinton-oped-cx_re_0105ehrenfeld.html
Keemo on January 5, 2009 at 6:01 PM
If you stick a guy with absolutely no experience into such a position, you provide yourself with all sorts of defense when things get totally f**ked up.
I think Republicans should sit at home and not attend ANY of these confirmation hearings.
None.
Then the blame spreads not.
drjohn on January 5, 2009 at 6:02 PM
If I were in or near a big city (especially the NE) I would be trying to move.
It appears that O doesn’t want people with any sense about the enemies we face. His cronies are ChiCons (don’t remember who coined that, but it’s clever!), but since the ChiCons probably can’t get security clearance, he (and we) are stuck with the CliCons.
INC on January 5, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Coming up to the inauguration of the idiot messiah, I feel as though I am watching an aircraft carrier steam out of port with a 10-year old captain. You just know that it will not end well, even though the 10-year old used to play with toy ships in the bathtub, growing up in Indonesia …
progressoverpeace on January 5, 2009 at 6:03 PM
LOL
drjohn on January 5, 2009 at 6:06 PM
I seem to remember Panetta showing up at a hearing on one of the Clinton scandals (I forget which one) without notes and without a lawyer. I found it refreshing.
He may be totally unsuited for the job but let’s face it, Obama could have done much worse.
Infidoll on January 5, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Just dismantle the CIA because this is effectively what happened with this appointment.
China, Russia, Iran,even lowly North Korea are all laughing out loud today.
This falls squarely into the ‘you gotta be kidding me’ category, joining the Minnesota the certification today of favorite comedian as Senator Franken.
Seriously this country has lost its mind. We are quickly becoming a joke.
FireBlogger on January 5, 2009 at 6:16 PM
After election Obama, accusing anyone else of being “unsuited for his job” is sort of anticlimactic.
Chuck Schick on January 5, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Seriously, when is Monica going to show up again?
Wyznowski on January 5, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Do you mean to say that PEBHO overlooked crack agent Valeria Plame for the honors? Sexiiiist!
onlineanalyst on January 5, 2009 at 6:22 PM
So what’s next, Sandy Berg(l)er to be named the new head of the FBI?
I’m still waiting for B.O. to announce that Jocelyn “Safer Bullets” Elders will be the new Surgeon General…again!
pilamaye on January 5, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Was there some new Hot Air acronym coinage happening while I was away?
The perfect description.
baldilocks on January 5, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Monica Crowley, kinda of saying I told you so, to kinda of like everyone:)
http://monicamemo.typepad.com/weblog/2009/01/four-reactions.html
Dr Evil on January 5, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Good question.
Y-not on January 5, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Y-not, Diane Feinstein and Jay Rockefeller are not happy, but Hoekstra, miraculously, is not disinclined. I always thought that he was intelligent.
Harry Reid simply doesn’t know what’s up.
Entelechy on January 5, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Obama is more like NFIAA….
No *ucking Idea AT ALL……
izoneguy on January 5, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Experience? Why? It is only the CIA…
right2bright on January 5, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Maybe an apologist is exactly what Obama is going to need….
drjohn on January 5, 2009 at 6:56 PM
When you are only a Senator for 150 days before you started to run for President you don’t have the years of service to meet, get to know, and evaluate people.
You don’t meet cabinet level people that much as a State Senator. Especially when you treated it like a part time position will you taught law.
We may as well draw up the clinton white house to see who else is on the works. Obami is in way over his head.
OT: Why can Obama talk about and meet with the house about the economy but not talk about Israel.
Kevin in Southern Illinois on January 5, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Another good question. As Ace said the other day, how hard would it be for Obama to come out with a statement supporting the current president?
Y-not on January 5, 2009 at 7:05 PM
He actually wanted Winnie the Pooh. You know, “Winnie the Pooh seems to be a fundamental text on national security”.
How is it that Barry isn’t the laughingstock of the WHOLE country?
InCali on January 5, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Dang! I can’t believe I forgot all about that. Thanks for the reminder, InCali. There is so much stupidity surrounding the Precedent-Elect that it’s hard to keep track.
progressoverpeace on January 5, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Feinstein and Rockefeller will end up like Richardson.
getalife on January 5, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Panneta is a Clinton man, so he is very experienced at doing nothing about terror attacks on US installations. However, he is familiar with sending a few token bombs into an empty farmhouse etc, so we all should sleep in peace right?? Without a doubt the worst appointment ever by a President.
HAGGS99 on January 5, 2009 at 7:18 PM
http://www.bytobyshop.com/products.asp?classid=352
Okay you people have to look at this! A line of Nike Obama shoes.
I know I am just a poor stupid country boy but have people gone crazy with this Idol worship.
Kevin in Southern Illinois on January 5, 2009 at 7:23 PM
HRC sits on Armed Svcs Cmte was asked by military to sit on an advisory panel they have, and frankly she was with Big Dawg aware of and gave feedback to him on foreign policy and she has traveled extensively for us, Kissinger thinks she is a good pick also, she is tough she is a hawk she is well informed and has connections via her early yrs in WH, I would in NO WAY compare HRC as SoS to Panetta at CIA, pullleezee
ginaswo on January 5, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Interesting that Jane Harman wasn’t even considered here. Party aside, she’s got some demonstrated competence to show.
But I guess that’d make too much sense.
irongrampa on January 5, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Sorry. I don’t care what Kissinger, or anyone else, says. HRC is an incompetent dolt who understands very little about the world.
progressoverpeace on January 5, 2009 at 7:28 PM
No problem! This quote should never be forgotten. I think it is, without a doubt, the single, stupidest, most moronic, most oblivious, head-in-the-sand, scared, pansy-@&!, masking as enlightenment quote ever uttered in the history of mankind.
And this is what our national security will be like. Yikes!
InCali on January 5, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Where are the Allen Dulles’ of today?
He was a station chief for the OSS, the precurser to the CIA. Developed plenty of contacts within Germany. Was CIA Director from 1953-1961.
Bonus points if you can name his translator when he worked in the OSS.
Kevin in Southern Illinois on January 5, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Sorry didn’t mean to link all that.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Allen-Welsh-Dulles
Kevin in Southern Illinois on January 5, 2009 at 7:34 PM
When I heard this announced on the radio today I was waiting for the “just kidding!” punchline.
Still waiting….ROFL.
Worst…admin….EVAH.
ex-Democrat on January 5, 2009 at 7:36 PM
because everything i know about the CIA i read in spy novels, i would venture to say that more of the CIA “knowledgeables” will go deeper underground & more rogue.
and who was dulles’ interpreter?
kelley in virginia on January 5, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Andrea Tantaros has a good story about Obama’s suppossed ethics and how when something goes wrong basically pulls downthe shades and says I’m bummed. A good short column.
Kevin in Southern Illinois on January 5, 2009 at 7:47 PM
wow on henry kissinger being dulles’ translater. didn’t know that.
also, how mad will feinstein & rockefeller be 2-3 mos from now when bambi starts giving away more money & when the muslims start bombing? they’ll be lapping at his heels.
kelley in virginia on January 5, 2009 at 7:47 PM
Yeah don’t think Fienstein liked being left out of the loop. Considering she has been in politics almost as long as Obama has been alive you can bet she will get her revenge at the confirmation hearings.
Kevin in Southern Illinois on January 5, 2009 at 7:55 PM
+1
tartan on January 5, 2009 at 7:55 PM
For the record, I’m not endorsing the terrorist attack remark, but the point that Obama should be nominating people who are qualified and have relevant experience, not just past associates of previous opponents.
tartan on January 5, 2009 at 8:09 PM
This guy….Is going to be incredibly, incompetent, me thinks…
therightwinger on January 5, 2009 at 8:11 PM
The whole Clinton administration had essentially no interest in intelligence, especially Bill who wasn’t interested in the daily brief and wouldn’t even meet with the director after the first few weeks. The supposed alter ego of the president, Hillary, as a senator has been on the intelligence committee and voted to go to war without reading the intelligence reports. Is it a surprise that a product of that administration will be director in a new Democratic administration?
burt on January 5, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Well guys I am signing off for the night.
See what other screwups happen tomorrow.
Kevin in Southern Illinois on January 5, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Perhaps you feel like another church commission is going to decimate the CIA because of this quote by Panetta just printed in the NYTimes.
(Ok, reprinted from the Washington Monthly)
Sounds like another “a gentleman does not read another gentleman’s mail” situation.
Since Panetta’s expertise at budgetary .. uh…um.. legerdemain, it sounds like his assignment is to gut the CIA budget.
Comments here about people leaving the intelligence community might well explain why the CIA is running recruitment ads on DirectTv as they did in newspapers in the early 1980′s. The one I saw was a quarter page ad in the Detroit Free Press.
Skandia Recluse on January 5, 2009 at 8:36 PM
HEH… That link didn’t work exactly right (database error or something at the site), but I looked around and found an 0bama Nike shoe.
Was struck that it was much like the 0ne it is named after: Flashy colors, poorly constructed, mostly plastic, and has a RED
soulsole.How appropriate.
LegendHasIt on January 5, 2009 at 8:40 PM
That’s a great column by Andrea Tantaros. I love the part about locking the door, pulling down the shades and being bummed.
Another good quote:
Her words are very similar to Dan McLaughlin’s conclusion about Obama back in October when he wrote The Integrity Gap, Part II of III: Sen. Barack Obama.
INC on January 5, 2009 at 8:41 PM
There are good reasons why Turner and Deutch were unwelcome. Admiral Turner, a Rhodes scholar, had such a small mind that one of his first acts as director was to send a gofer around headquarters to collect all purple high lighters. Only he could have them. I guess it had something to do with a king complex.
Deutch, a physics professor, was so contemptuous of security that he kept some of the CIA’s most secret information on his home PC which his daughter used on the Internet. This should have resulted in a life sentence in a hard time prison.
burt on January 5, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Holy CRAP!
Yes! Give him a goddamn job already!
apollyonbob on January 5, 2009 at 8:50 PM
Wanna bet??? The whole administration is about having “dependable yes men at the top”. See also: The Clinton Presidency, Term 3.
uncivilized on January 5, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Obama just can’t please anybody of course that is what happens when you try to please everybody.
http://bellalu0.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/code-pink-co-founder-jodi-evans-disgusted-with-obama/
Dr Evil on January 5, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Stay tuned – we’re waiting for the appointment of Jamie Gorelick to head the FBI, and Sandy Berglar to be nominated as Archivist of the United States.
(for those asking WTF? regarding the last appointment, let me just remind you what Sandy Berger was stealing – classified records in the National Archives.)
Things do not look good. Only bright note – if Duke loses its case, Gorelick may go under the bus.
Orson Buggeigh on January 5, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Don’t forget the duct tape and the plastic sheets. And cash, because I doubt that the ATMs machines are going to be up.
El Coqui on January 5, 2009 at 9:00 PM
FIFY.
Gina on January 5, 2009 at 9:00 PM
…which is the main issue…nobody really cares who PEBO picks for this or that post, just as long as he clears it through Feinstein/Pelosi/Reid.
uncivilized on January 5, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Sure…that way he can pick up the stuff he couldn’t fit into his shorts the last time…
uncivilized on January 5, 2009 at 9:04 PM
So because of pressure from left wing blogs, Obama is naming a guy with no experience to be in charge of the CIA. That is not good.
SoulGlo on January 5, 2009 at 9:13 PM
A man [or woman] who
carries a cat by the tailvotes in too many democrats learns something he can learn in no other way[updated].- Mark Twain
MB4 on January 5, 2009 at 9:17 PM
I dunno, isn’t that kind of like appointing someone jury foreman who is untainted by never having read anything about the case, who’s also untainted by any ability to read whatsoever.
Seems rather similar to me.
MB4 on January 5, 2009 at 9:22 PM
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