{"id":193251,"date":"2009-01-05T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/05\/obama-staffing-update-3\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T01:31:00","slug":"obama-staffing-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/05\/obama-staffing-update-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Staffing Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leon Panetta: <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/05\/panetta-to-be-named-cia-director\/\">C.I.A. Director<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What is interesting here is two things, he does not have previous intel experience, being Clintons Chief of staff for a time, and that he has Panetta op\/ed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montereyherald.com\/commentary\/ci_8511876?nclick_check=1&amp;forced=true\">forcefully stated his opposition to warrantless surveillance and torture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, as a former CoS, he will know how to run a bureaucracy, and how to get the President&#8217;s attention, which should be helpful, though I still find it an odd pick.<\/p>\n<p>We also have some more <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/01\/obama_announces_top_doj_picks.php\">appointments at the Department of Justice<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Ogden for Deputy Attorney General;<\/li>\n<li>Elena Kagan, Solicitor General;<\/li>\n<li>Tom Perrelli, Associate Attorney General;<\/li>\n<li>Dawn Johnsen, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No knowledge of them, though Glenn Greenwald is generally happy over the above appointments, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2009\/01\/05\/olc\/index.html\">positively ecstatic over Dawn Johnsen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Greenwald also reveals that Sen. Dianne Feinstein<sup>*<\/sup> and Sen. Jay Rockefeller are upset because they Panetta is not an &#8220;intelligence professional&#8221;, and because they feel that they were not consulted sufficiently.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Full disclosure, my great grandfather, Harry Goldman, and her grandfather, Sam Goldman were brothers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leon Panetta: C.I.A. Director. What is interesting here is two things, he does not have previous intel experience, being Clintons Chief of staff for a time, and that he has Panetta op\/ed forcefully stated his opposition to warrantless surveillance and torture. Clearly, as a former CoS, he will know how to run a bureaucracy, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}