DiFI: I now like Panetta

[Uzybone]

Feinstein’s O.K. With Panetta at C.I.A.


"Emerging from a policy luncheon this afternoon, Senator Dianne Feinstein disclosed that she had spoken with Leon Panetta last night, after raising objections earlier this week about his qualifications to become the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Asked whether she planned to support his confirmation now — following telephone conversations initiated by both President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., she said: “I believe all systems are go.”"


"As far as the oversight made by Obama officials when they did not brief her on the on the selection of Panetta before the news leaked out, she said today: “I don’t really care about that. What I do care about is the agency, and that it faces many issues and it has many problems. And what I do care about is that the White House is given crisp, good, as much as possible factual, intelligence, and it is not what they want to hear necessarily but it is what the agency believes is the truth.

“President-elect Obama made the comment that he doesn’t want to be told what they think he wants to hear but what they think he should hear, and that’s good enough for me.”"


http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/feinsteins-ok-with-panetta-at-cia/

[tblue]

1. Me: I still don't like Feinstein.

Senator Repub-Lite has got to go.

[Cha]

9. Yeah, she said all the right things

in this article but she has a lot more to answer for.

[Hutzpa]

2. .

:eyes:

[monmouth]

3. I'm glad she got the memo...Twit....n/t

[annabanana]

4. (not exactly a ringing endorsement, is it?)

She was on the wrong side on torture, illegal evesdropping... that whole, you know, habeas corpus thingie...

Like Rachel mentioned.. sometimes elections have consequences..

[TahitiNut]

5. Translation: "I got the ego-stroking I demanded."

She's appalling.

"What I do care about is the agency, and that it faces many issues and it has many problems." She seems to have this bipolar-Mother role for herself. She doesn't seem to completely comprehend what 'oversight' means in other than baby-sitter or parental terms. Ass.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. DI: I now oppose seating Burris.

OK, I just made that up.

[MADem]

7. She also likes Burris, when before she hated him.

Obama must have given her a charm offensive.

[Hieronymus]

8. Mmmm I like the following quote ..

“President-elect Obama made the comment that he doesn’t want to be told what they think he wants to hear but what they think he should hear, and that’s good enough for me.”"

Apparently, she didn't mind that the Bush administration took another approach.

[Jennicut]

10. WTF? She was all diva -like the other day.

Guess apologies from Joe and Barack changed her mind.

[Patsy Stone]

11. "I don't really care about that."

Now that my bitching and whining have been given the proper news cycle coverage, I'm good.

[AtomicKitten]

12. She obviously did care about "that" as evidenced by her hissyfit. n/t

[Hippo_Tron]

13. I have a feeling she saw Rachel Maddow's segment on her

[proud patriot]

14. LOL visualizing DiFi watching Rachel just made my day

:rofl:

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

15. She also likes war profiteering...