Comments on: Recycling

By: Babs

Babs — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:33:37 +0000

Hey Virgil – I guess I really should reply to you by now.
I’m happily married so, marraige is out of the question.
We are compatriots, clearly that is the case .
On the other hand, if you wanted to buy me a drink; I just might be persuaded… Lex could tag along, for appearances…

By: fliterman

fliterman — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:39:52 +0000

#5 B2,

“Ideal pick?” No.
Good pick? I say yes. But only time will tell, won’t it?

I’m with lex in that he can’t be any worse than Tenet. GT at best was a staffer. Panetta should be better than he and some other questionable Directors in the CIA’s history. Panetta has leadership qualities, stature, and political moxie that the Company desperately needs at the moment. I expect he will be just what the Agency needs.

I also don’t think Panetta is the “consummate politician” you make him out to be. But if he were, that would be a plus rather than a negative, and hardly a disqualification. I do seem to remember a greater and more famous politician, who served as CIA Director in 1976-1977. It didn’t slow him down, did it?

regards…..

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:39:08 +0000

Babs/

Surely you jest……Just a couple?

By: b2

b2 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:46:48 +0000

Zane-

November Sierra!

By: Zane

Zane — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:00:09 +0000

B2, you made a typo:

Panetta is the ideal prick for CIA.

Ciao

By: b2

b2 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:58:04 +0000

Flit,

Even if you did have a point to make outside of your normal tactic of political prism relativism, I still don’t get it.

Do you think, based strictly on his resume, that the consumate politician Panetta is the ideal pick for CIA?