Reply #7: Bush Sr. was the "first" outsider in the CIA - When he left he had shaped it into what it is today..

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I would like to see Panetta reshape it into something we can believe in again as a reflection of the true U.S. doctrine that is founded on the Constitution.

More on Old Man Bush's CIA:

George H.W. Bush

http://www.famoustexans.com/georgebush.htm

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He (Bush Sr.) served as Gerald Ford’s Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from November 1975 to January 1977. As head of the CIA, Bush was answerable only to President Ford. He was supposedly the first CIA “outsider” to hold the agency's top position. During his tenure as DCI he maintained a policy of disinformation and secrecy, despite a public show of cooperation with congressional investigations of CIA abuses such as assassination plots using Mafia hit men. In September 1976, Chilean dissident leader Orlando Letelier was assassinated in Washington D.C. by agents of DINA, Chile’s secret police. The CIA knew of such plots, and the two assassins entered the U.S. using fake Paraguayan passports. But the FBI was kept in the dark about this information.

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As far as Pelosi and others opposition - makes you wonder what the hidden agenda is not to let him in the position for sure.
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