The Hits Keep Coming: Panetta at CIA

Leon Panetta gets named to head the CIA. It concerns me a little that he has no hands on intelligence experience, and there seems to be little actual information on his intelligence opinions, but he is someone who had nothing to do with the intelligence policies of Bush-land and so represents a clean break. Connections to things like wiretapping and torture were the kind of thing that sunk Obama's first choice, John Brennan. On top of the Johnson pick at OLC, it's like icing on the cake. As Andrew Sullivan notes, and I echo (with realistic hope): This is a good day for America's soul.