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More important than anything Director of National Intelligence-nominee Dennis Blair and CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta said at their rollout this morning — it’s a rollout, after all, so you’re not getting anything controversial — were two things President-elect Barack Obama said that directly repudiate the intelligence regime of the previous administration. First, among the “tough [...]

The mostly smooth Obama transition has hit a stumbling block as it seeks a CIA head. Criticism from the left led likely candidate John Brennan to withdraw his name from consideration.