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My Man Panetta
It's not easy, being smart, accomplished and creative, and still find yourself called upon to serve your country. Usually those people get sucked up by industries and allowed to fend for themselves together. Imagine the 'smartest guys in the room' at Enron. The Dark Side is Seductive.
His masterful non-denial of Pelosi's claims are to be noted. While I'm not crazy about Congress (they make laws), I am proud of the corps of Americans working in the NSA/CIA/AEIOUs. I'm also proud of faithful people.
The Agency was wounded recently. It was used for purposes other than that for which it was built, which warped the steering and shook several nuts from the drive system. It is a paramilitary organization though, something like a militia. As long as it continues to look outward, it's one of us.
WE ALREADY KNOW the Bush administration did everything it could to stymie Democratic aspirations, to impair their work, to TURN OFF THE POWER during Committee hearings. We know that. Panetta isn't telling us anything new, just that he's our man at the Agency, and he's standing with them so shut up already.
That said, Pelosi is an Italian Grandmother with huge cans. Leon is a Panetta, but not just any Panetta. His parents were Carmelina Maria (née Prochilo) and Carmelo Frank. If there were anything amounting to conflict here, we would certainly be hearing it and complaining about the noise. We'd be worried about flying tableware.
And I can say this with certainty. I'm Italian by marriage.
But more to the point, Panetta's not the only one who knows how to be true to the family. Pelosi's doing fine too.
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