Update - 8/26/09 - Red State is Reporting that Panetta will be resigning as CIA Director from reliable sources.
Late Breaking News! ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER WILL APPOINT PROSECUTOR TO INVESTIGATE ALLEGED CIA ABUSES
Tensions Lead to CIA Director's "Screaming Match" at the White House
By MATTHEW COLE, RICHARD ESPOSITO and BRIAN ROSS
August 24, 2009
A "profanity-laced screaming match" at the White House involving CIA Director Leon Panetta, and the expected release today of another damning internal investigation, has administration officials worrying about the direction of its newly-appoint intelligence team, current and former senior intelligence officials tell ABC News.com.
"You can expect a larger than normal turnover in the next year," a senior adviser to Obama on intelligence matters told ABCNews.com.
Since 9/11, the CIA has had five directors or acting directors.
A White House spokesperson, Denis McDonough, said reports that Panetta had threatened to quit and that the White House was seeking a replacement were "inaccurate."
According to intelligence officials, Panetta erupted in a tirade last month during a meeting with a senior White House staff member. Panetta was reportedly upset over plans by Attorney General Eric Holder to open a criminal investigation of allegations that CIA officers broke the law in carrying out certain interrogation techniques that President Obama has termed "torture."
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By MATTHEW COLE, RICHARD ESPOSITO and BRIAN ROSS
August 24, 2009
A "profanity-laced screaming match" at the White House involving CIA Director Leon Panetta, and the expected release today of another damning internal investigation, has administration officials worrying about the direction of its newly-appoint intelligence team, current and former senior intelligence officials tell ABC News.com.
"You can expect a larger than normal turnover in the next year," a senior adviser to Obama on intelligence matters told ABCNews.com.
Since 9/11, the CIA has had five directors or acting directors.
A White House spokesperson, Denis McDonough, said reports that Panetta had threatened to quit and that the White House was seeking a replacement were "inaccurate."
According to intelligence officials, Panetta erupted in a tirade last month during a meeting with a senior White House staff member. Panetta was reportedly upset over plans by Attorney General Eric Holder to open a criminal investigation of allegations that CIA officers broke the law in carrying out certain interrogation techniques that President Obama has termed "torture."
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NOTE: This is what you get when you elect someone who has Zero experience. From the time Obama won the Senate seat he was running for President and not learning about about how our Government works. His Constitutional Law classes were more about sports then the Law.
Thank you Director Panetta for standing up to Attorney General Holder.
Holder had charges dropped of voter intimidation and threats by the New Black Panther party but now wants to go after our CIA officers? They go after CIA agents doing their job and let the thugs go free. This Administration is spirraling out of control.
Is this one of those "Follow the Money?" Who is behind Holder going after the CIA agents and dropping charges against the New Black Panthers?
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