Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Dianne Feinstein – like Mr. Panetta, a California Democrat – issued a statement saying “my position has consistently been that I believe the agency is best served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time.”

An aide to the current chairman of the committee, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia Democrat, said his boss had similar concerns.

“He believes the director of the CIA needs to have significant intelligence experience,” the aide said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.   Read More

Why now lawmakers? You didn’t demand intelligence experience when you supported Barack Obama for president. See its unexperience picking the unexperience!

LINKS:

(1) Clinton Chief Of Scandal To Head CIA Even key Democrats are concerned that the agency under fire for intelligence failures involving the 2001 terrorist attacks and the Iraq war will be headed by a scandal-plagued Clinton Administration official with no intelligence experience
Barack Obama’s controversial choice to head the Central Intelligence Agency—Clinton White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta—has caused quite an uproar among high-ranking members of his own party.

(2) Biden: Not consulting Senate on Panetta “a mistake”

(3) Obama’s CIA Pick from “Left Field” Agents Say; President-Elect Wants It That Way