It’s ridiculous to even consider Leon Panetta for a microsecond for this position, when the much more experienced John Brennan was available, but
the nutroots vetoed him. so they had to bring him in the back way as White House advisor to counterterrorism; where he’ll watch as everything that was kept America safe for the last 7 1/2 years is either dismantled or the participants actually prosecuted. This will be accomplished in part through the work of Dawn Johnson at the OLC, who will illegalize all such operations retroactively. Of course, this will demoralize the men of the Agency, as Turner’s ‘Halloween massacre’ and Deutch’s “Torricelli rules’ did in the 70s and 80s. It will also risk yet another devastating AQ strike, to prove some ersatz point about leftist morality. We will have to wait out another four or maybe even eight years, for another administration, to salvage what has
been mended.
