Yeah, like many folks I was a bit surprised at Obama's pick for CIA Director, but it didn't take me long to fully appreciate the boldness of his choice. I was going to blog up a list of pros and cons on Leon Panetta today before coming down in the man's favor, but Andy Sullivan beat me to the punch in one easy paragaph.
Bush and Cheney took Saddam's Abu Ghraib and made it a torture zone under American control. They took Soviet sites in Eastern Europe and revived their record of torture, under the American flag. Bagram was part of a pattern. And people wonder why a person untainted by the past should be CIA director.---Vitelius
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