Dianne Feinstein Irked With Barack Obama’s Choice to Head the CIA

President-elect Obama- the agent of change- has tabbed another Clinton insider,Leon Panetta, a man with basically no intelligence experience, as the next director of the CIA.

This appointment is already drawing fire from both sides of the aisle as it appears that the president-elect has made another cabinet blunder so closely following the embarrassment of the resignation of Bill Richardson as Obama’s commerce secretary.

Even pprominent Democrat Dianne Feinstein, who will be heading the Senate Intelligence Committee, is not pleased and may actually oppose the nomination.

I was not informed about the selection of Leon Panetta to be the CIA director,” Feinstein said. “My position has consistently been that I believe the agency is best served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time

The incoming chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee isn’t the only Democrat to question Obama’s choice of an unqualified candidate to become head of the CIA.

Rockefeller “thinks very highly of Panetta,” the aide said. “But he’s puzzled by the selection. He has concerns because he has always believed that the director of CIA needs to be someone with significant operational intelligence experience, and someone outside the political realm

President-elect Obama has had a tough stretch lately between Rahm Emanuel’s involvement in the Blagojevich scandal, to Obama lying about Emanuel’s involvement, to Bill Richardson resigning in disgrace from Obama’s cabinet, to Obama’s lack of courage in at least making a statement on the Israel/Hamas conflict. And now he has tabbed an unqualified Clinton insider to head the CIA, drawing the ire of the woman who will head the Senate Intelligence Committee.

With all of the Clinton insiders who have been named to the agent of change’s cabinet one has to wonder if indeed a deal was struck between Obama and Clinton to stop Hillary from forcing the roll call vote at the convention in an attempt to steal the nomination.

It’s either that or he just has bad judgement and considering he ran on what he claimed was his good judgement he certainly isn’t showing us much in that category, is he?