2.26.2009

CIA Director Panetta already talking tough

Late last year former Monterey Rep. Leon Panetta was busy giving transition advice to then-President-elect Obama's team while insisting he had no desire to leave the Carmel Valley.

"They did mention Commerce," Obama's new CIA director told reporters Wednesday. Noting Obama's troubles in filling that job, he added, "I guess I made a good decision."

The 70-year-old former White House chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, who just a month ago was running his Panetta Institute at Cal State Monterey Bay, now is knee-deep in some of Washington's thorniest debates: Where will detainees go when Guantanamo Bay is closed? How aggressively should terrorist suspects be interrogated? Is Iran close to having a nuclear weapon?

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