Obama Pick For CIA Will Gut Our Intelligence-Gathering Capabilities

The Traditional Values coalition (Jan. 7, 2009): President-Elect Barack Obama has chosen former Clintonoid Leon Panetta to head up the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta has no experience in the field, but former CIA operatives are convinced that he will gut the agency’s intelligence-gathering capabilities and will purge the CIA of effective operatives in the war on Islamic terrorism.

Panetta has been opposed by liberal Senator Diane Feinstein, who said: “My position has consistently been that I believe the agency is best served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time.” Former CIA operative Mike Baker is seriously concerned about Panetta as head of the CIA. In an editorial posted on Fox News, January 7, Baker said it makes as much sense to appoint Leon Spinks to head the CIA. According to Baker, it is likely that Panetta will usher in a new era of “risk aversion” that existed under Bill Clinton – and our intelligence-gather efforts will be hampered.

Dick Morris, a former Clinton advisor who worked with Panetta, says Obama picked him to tear the CIA apart! According to Morris: “Panetta is too inexperienced, too weak and too liberal to make an effective CIA head. And, surrounded by people who know even less than he does about national security issues, it is a truly terrifying appointment.”

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