Panetta, Blair land top intel posts

Leon Panetta speaks at the White House in 2004.

By MIKE ALLEN & JEN DIMASCIO | 1/5/09 7:21 PM

Obama taps former California Rep. Leon Panetta for CIA director and retired Navy Admiral Dennis Blair as director of national intelligence. But is the Panetta choice already in trouble? Some Senate Democrats are grumbling.

Feinstein on Panetta: 'I was not informed'

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