"Aides to Mr. Obama say they have no intention of directing Mr. Panetta
to oust C.I.A. officials who played a role in the agency’s secret
interrogation and detention program."
But no more hanky-panky will be tolerated.
"Instead, they say, the new
administration will focus on reversing the rules that authorized the
C.I.A. to carry out aggressive interrogations. Indeed, in deciding to retain Stephen R. Kappes as the agency’s second-ranking official, Mr. Obama will keep in place an official who had direct oversight of the agency’s network of secret prisons when he held in succession the top two jobs in the C.I.A.’s clandestine service from 2002 to 2004.
"Still, the selection of Mr. Panetta has put some of the C.I.A.’s rank and file into a defensive crouch, in part because Mr. Panetta is hardly alone among senior officials being installed by Mr. Obama to have said that the agency’s interrogation program amounted to torture." ... New York Times ...
"Still, the selection of Mr. Panetta has put some of the C.I.A.’s rank and file into a defensive crouch, in part because Mr. Panetta is hardly alone among senior officials being installed by Mr. Obama to have said that the agency’s interrogation program amounted to torture." ... New York Times ...
Some believe we should find a public space in which to waterboard "some of the CIA's rank and file."
