Comments on: I Knew Now What I Knew Then But I Didn’t Know Then What I Know Now http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/01/06/tonylakelikejojodancer/ Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:59:36 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: sghiteinfla http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/01/06/tonylakelikejojodancer/#comment-5636 sghiteinfla Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:10:55 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/01/06/tonylakelikejojodancer/#comment-5636 <p>bloomberg has a story up with several people praising the pick of Panetta including former CIA head George Tenet. If they aren’t careful DiFi and Rockefeller are going to be on the outside looking in on this one. Especially when they didn’t make a stink over Porter Goss or many of Bush’s other appointments. John Cole has a post up about that too. I don’t know how much they want to push back on this pick against a president elect with such high approval ratings. It might make people start looking at them funny style not BO</p> bloomberg has a story up with several people praising the pick of Panetta including former CIA head George Tenet. If they aren’t careful DiFi and Rockefeller are going to be on the outside looking in on this one. Especially when they didn’t make a stink over Porter Goss or many of Bush’s other appointments. John Cole has a post up about that too. I don’t know how much they want to push back on this pick against a president elect with such high approval ratings. It might make people start looking at them funny style not BO

]]> By: msobel http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/01/06/tonylakelikejojodancer/#comment-5635 msobel Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:34:27 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/01/06/tonylakelikejojodancer/#comment-5635 <p><a href="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/01/chief_of_staff.php#comment-989552" rel="nofollow">http://yglesias.thinkprogress......ent-989552</a><br /> John says </p> <p>Looking at previous directors -</p> <p>John Deutch - no previous intelligence experience<br /> Jim Woolsey - no previous intelligence experience (a diplomat)<br /> William Webster - no previous intelligence experience (head of the FBI)<br /> William Casey - had worked in OSS during WWII, but no intelligence experience since then<br /> Stansfield Turner - an admiral, but no specific intelligence experience<br /> George H. W. Bush - no intelligence experience<br /> James Schlesinger - no previous specifically intelligence-related experience (he had been an analyst for Rand, and so forth)<br /> William Raborn - another admiral with no intelligence experience<br /> John McCone - no specific intelligence experience that I can see (was head of the Atomic Energy Commission)</p> http://yglesias.thinkprogress……ent-989552
John says

Looking at previous directors -

John Deutch – no previous intelligence experience
Jim Woolsey – no previous intelligence experience (a diplomat)
William Webster – no previous intelligence experience (head of the FBI)
William Casey – had worked in OSS during WWII, but no intelligence experience since then
Stansfield Turner – an admiral, but no specific intelligence experience
George H. W. Bush – no intelligence experience
James Schlesinger – no previous specifically intelligence-related experience (he had been an analyst for Rand, and so forth)
William Raborn – another admiral with no intelligence experience
John McCone – no specific intelligence experience that I can see (was head of the Atomic Energy Commission)

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