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The Panetta Pick

By The Daily Dish
Jan 6 2009, 11:30 AM ET

Laura Rozen talks to various intelligence insiders:

The Panetta choice makes sense to him, said Philip Zelikow, a former counselor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (and Foreign Policy writer). "The issues of presidential trust and clean hands are, at this moment in history, most important," Zelikow said by e-mail. "And even an 'intelligence professional' would have to rely on others in many ways. ... So Obama and his team have made a certain kind of tradeoff."



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