Leon Panetta Makes Nice
"I am a creature of Congress,"
said Leon Panetta with a broad smile, which was returned by equally
wide smiles from members of the Senate intelligence committee meeting
yesterday to consider his nomination to be director of the Central Intelligence
Agency.
I really wish he hadn't said that.
For that sobriquet fits the worst of the worst, so to speak, of former
CIA directors-the tarnished Medal of Freedom awardee, George Tenet.
He too mastered the art of grinning in Congress.