Jan 06, 2009

Obama picks Leon Panetta for CIA director

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WASHINGTON — Leon Panetta, a Northern California political veteran who served 16 years in Congress and was President Clinton's budget director and chief of staff, is President-elect Barack Obama's surprise choice to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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counterterrorism. Most troubling for Panetta was the decidedly cool reaction of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who becomes chair of the Intelligence Committee this week and will conduct his confirmation hearing.

"My position has consistently been that I believe the agency is best-served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time," the California Democrat said in a terse statement. She added that Obama and his team did not inform her of the choice before news leaked out Monday.

Choosing a new CIA director has been a difficult decision for Obama. An early favorite, John Brennan, withdrew his name from consideration after some Democrats criticized his role in devising interrogation and detention policies after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Obama and his team shied away from officials who were involved in Bush administration policies. Obama's choice for director of national intelligence, http://www.air-shox.com/Shox_Allegria_Glow.html  retired admiral Dennis Blair, recently headed the Institute for Defense Analyses, a government-sponsored national security

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Panetta's lack of intelligence experience is not a problem, his backers say — and he is untainted by the intelligence failures and controversies of the last eight years.

"He has an impeccable record in government and is known for his high integrity," said Gloria Duffy, president of the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, who worked on nuclear proliferation as a Pentagon official in the 1990s.

Panetta, 70, has a long career as a Monterey Bay area congressman, and helped establish the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. As budget director under Clinton, he was credited with helping balance the federal budget. He also served three years as White House chief of staff, a role in which he sat in on the president's intelligence briefings.

In recent years he was a member of the Iraq Study Group, which pressed President Bush unsuccessfully to negotiate with Syria and Iran and reduce the U.S. combat role in Iraq. Panetta said two years ago he was distressed by Iraqi leaders who were willing to use violence to achieve political goals.

He directs the Panetta Institute near Monterey and has been active in efforts to reform and restructure California's budget process, co-chairing California Forward, a bipartisan project.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Panetta criticized Bush for "using the politics of fear to trump the law" on torture and eavesdropping. The CIA has been embroiled in controversy for using aggressive interrogation techniques that go beyond the rules of the Army Field Manual followed by the military.

"Torture is illegal, immoral, dangerous and counterproductive," Panetta wrote in March 2008.

Obama's decision to tap Panetta won the praise of former colleagues, including ex-Rep. Norm Mineta, a former San Jose mayor, and Rep. Anna Eshoo of Palo Alto, who serves on the House Intelligence Committee.

"He's very smart and articulate, not ideological, and he's respected on both sides of the aisle in Congress," said Mineta, who first met him when http://www.air-shox.com/Shox_FSM.html Panetta was a law student at Santa Clara University.

Eshoo called Panetta a "brilliant choice" who will make sure, in the wake of Iraq intelligence failures, that Obama "gets the best intelligence possible."

Sen. Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, also lauded the choice of Panetta: "If the president-elect's priority at the CIA is to build a spirit of trust and accountability, he has picked the right person."

But one national security expert, Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, said he was "confused" by the choice, because Panetta has "a great background on domestic policy, but not intelligence."

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Some analysts predict that CIA veterans will object to Panetta as an outsider, but Duffy, the former Pentagon official, said a new generation of CIA analysts and operatives, recruited since 2001, "may not be resistant to Panetta."

Panetta, who once considered running for governor of California, has been outspoken about the need for bipartisan leadership in a time of economic and global crisis.

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Dec 27, 2008

Attacker at Party Had Escape Plan, Police Say

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Attacker at Party Had Escape Plan, Police Say
By REBECCA CATHCART and SOLOMON MOORE
COVINA, Calif. — Bruce Pardo had intended to fly to Canada on

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But despite his careful plans, Mr. Pardo was still in the home when it

caught fire, the police said. Instead of fleeing the country, Mr.

Pardo, who suffered third-degree burns on his arms and hands, drove 40

miles to his brother’s home in the Sylmar area of Los Angeles and

shot himself in the head.

When his brother, Brad Pardo, found him Thursday night, Chief Kim

Raney of the Covina police said, Mr. Pardo had $17,000 in cash and a

plane ticket strapped to his body with cellophane. Pieces of the Santa

Claus suit he had worn on his killing spree were fused to his legs and

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“This was a preplanned event,” http://www.air-shox.com/Shox_Turb_OH+_SL.htmlChief Raney said. “But he didn’t

plan to ignite himself so that he couldn’t leave. His plans changed

based on his injuries.”

On Friday, 9 of the 25 guests at the Christmas Eve party remained

missing, Chief Raney said. Nine charred bodies had been pulled from

the two-story house, he said, but Los Angeles County coroners were

waiting for medical and dental records before identifying the remains.

Those missing ranged from 17 to 80 years old, Chief Raney said, and

included Mr. Pardo’s ex-wife, Sylvia Pardo; her parents, Joseph and

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Two girls, 8 and 16, remained in critical condition after being shot,

and a 20-year-old woman who broke her ankle jumping from a window to

escape was in satisfactory condition.

The 8-year-old girl was shot in the jaw when she ran toward the door

where Mr. Pardo stood, “excited because she thought Santa had

arrived,” Chief Raney said.

“It was chaos,” he said. “People were running for their lives.”

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victims may have been upstairs when the second floor collapsed in

flames, Lieutenant Doonan said.

The police said the four handguns Mr. Pardo used in the killings, a

fifth one that he used to shoot himself and two shotguns found in his

home in Montrose, Calif., were legally registered to him. He had also

legally gotten the fuel tanks he used to seed the Covina fire.

On a job résumé the police recovered at his home, Mr. Pardo listed

bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering, jobs at

various “medical centers and software manufacturers,” Chief Raney

said, and a job as an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from

1985 to 1994.

“This guy was smart,” Chief Raney said, “but the device did

explode. Obviously, with the burns he suffered, he didn’t anticipate

that.”

Mr. Pardo was fired in October from a job as an engineer at “a

company that makes foreign government radar systems,” Chief Raney

said. He would not identify that company or another company he said

had dismissed Mr. Pardo a few months earlier, in July.

A spokesman for ITT, Andy Hilton, said that Mr. Pardo worked as a

software engineer from February 2005 until last July, when he was

fired. Mr. Hilton would not give a reason for the job termination but

said it was not related to http://www.air-shox.com/Shox_TL_4.htmlany violent behavior or mental illness on

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A pay stub from the Lockheed Federal Credit Union was visible through

a window in Mr. Pardo’s home Friday. A spokesman for the Lockheed

Martin Corporation, Jeffrey Adams, said he was unable to confirm that

Mr. Pardo ever worked for the company.

After he was fired, Mr. Pardo traveled “to the Midwest and Northeast

” for about a month, said Lieutenant Doonan, the lead investigator on

the case, before returning to California in December to finalize the

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Divorce papers state that the Pardos had no children together, though

each had at least one child from previous relationships. None of those

children were at the Christmas Eve party when Mr. Pardo began

shooting, the police said.

Mr. Pardo had been ordered to pay $10,000 in cash to Mrs. Pardo by

Dec. 19, though both waived rights to future spousal support. It was

not known Friday if that money had been paid.

Mr. Pardo’s modest stucco house sits at the foothills of the Verdugo

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relating to his divorce could be http://www.air-shox.com/Shox_Junga.htmlseen through a window of a study at

the front of the house. One document visible from the window was a

copy of a discovery letter from Mr. Pardo’s lawyer to Mrs. Pardo’s

attorney, Stanley Silver, requesting information about her assets and

income.

Mr. Silver said that Mr. Pardo was trying to get child support

payments since he was fired from his job last summer. Henry Baeza, who

lives near Mr. Pardo and with his wife owns the Montrose Bakery, which

Mr. Pardo visited several times a week, said he and several waitresses

there knew him as a friendly loner and an adequate tipper.

“The last time I saw him was on http://www.air-shox.com/Shox_Q'Vida.htmlWednesday,” Mr. Baeza said. “He

came in and told me happy Christmas. I was shocked when I heard what

happened.”

Standing outside the ruins of the Ortega home on Thursday was Frank

Castillo, who identified himself as the brother of Mrs. Pardo’s

second ex-husband. Mr. Castillo said that Mrs. Pardo had a total of

three children, an 8-year-old, Amanda; another daughter, Selina; and

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years ago in a car accident.

Mr. Castillo said that the children, especially Sal, complained about

Mr. Pardo. “They said they were scared of Bruce, that he was a little

bit aggressive,” he said. “Sal said he didn’t trust him. Bruce was

a very quiet guy, but Sal didn’t trust him.”

 

 
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