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Leon Panetta

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2012

    Rightbloggers: Obama Unfairly Uses Bin Laden, Jokes, and Slow Jam to Get Reelected

    We're coming up to the first anniversary of Osama Bin Laden's demise. Some media outlets celebrated with cute headlines ("Osama Bin Laden Used Viagra And 'Just-For-Men' To Keep His Wives Interested In Him"). President Obama celebrated with an ad reminding everyone that he killed him. To rightblogge ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Pentagon Admits Hackers Stole 24,000 Secret Files

    ​Just days after the hacker group Anonymous announced a huge haul from the government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, the Pentagon admitted today that back in March some hackers (though not necessarily Anonymous) managed to steal 24,000 "sensitive Pentagon files during a single intrusion," the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Osama Bin Laden Killing Was 'Cold-Blooded,' 'One-Sided' in New Versions of Raid Story

    ​Because every morsel of information about the U.S. raid that killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan earlier this week has been closely considered and scrutinized, the shifting nature of the White House's story has been extra apparent. By Thursday morning, the initial tales of a 40-minute firefigh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    New York City on Terrorism Watch After Osama Bin Laden Killing

    ​CIA Director Leon Panetta says that al Qaida will "almost certainly" attempt to get revenge for the killing of Osama bin Laden, and thus, nowhere are security officials on higher alert than in New York City today. The New York Post reports that the NYPD "will pay special attention to subways, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    The CIA Isn't Cool with CIA Agents Talking to The Press

    ​Imagine being a super-secret spy for the CIA and having something you think is in the best interests of the American people that you know, that they don't. What to do? Call a reporter! Looks like the CIA isn't too cool with this kind of thing.

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Top Chef Season 7, Episode 10: Alex Takes a Swan Dive, Kelly Goes to Paris

    ​Wylie 'n Padma, with Wylie looking wily. I'd been at a birthday party at Momofuku just before Top Chef Season 7, Episode 10 aired. Knowing that I'd drawn the short straw and had to write about it, I cycled home in a lather, filled to the brim with fried chicken, corn salad, and pork-belly ss ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 13, 2010

    Free Will Astrology: July 14 - 20, 2010

    ​Wylie 'n Padma, with Wylie looking wily. I'd been at a birthday party at Momofuku just before Top Chef Season 7, Episode 10 aired. Knowing that I'd drawn the short straw and had to write about it, I cycled home in a lather, filled to the brim with fried chicken, corn salad, and pork-belly ss ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    Top Chef's Premiere Suffers From Half-Cooked Ratings

    Who's looking smug now?​There may be plenty of discreet charm to be found in Washington, D.C., but discretion does not a ratings juggernaut make. That's a lesson that Bravo executives are probably mulling over in the wake of Wednesday's Top Chef premiere, which The Washington Post reports pull ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Top Chef: Washington, D.C. Promises Us Eric Ripert, Three New York Chefs, Bad Dreads, and an Occasional Cross-Dresser

    BravoIt's called the Oral Office, Beavis.​So close, yet so far: Bravo today announced that there is but little more than a month remaining until the premiere of Top Chef: Washington, D.C., which will premiere on June 16. Season Seven already has a few things going for it, including three New Y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2010

    How to Follow the White House Press Correspondents Dinner on Twitter

    Time editor Richard Stengel, Gayle King and MSNBC's Savannah Guthrie​Happy May Day! Or happy White House Press Correspondents Dinner Day, depending how famous you are, how closely you follow the high school side of politics or how much you wish you were famous. Or! How much you wish you were c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    Save The Date! Terror Attacks Expected Between Now and July, Say Officials

    Mark your calendars! Intelligence sources, including CIA Director Leon Panetta, say "Al Qaeda is almost 'certain' to try a major attack on the U.S. in the next three to six months," reports the Daily News. Panetta and others appeared before the Senate with the grim news. If it sounds familiar, tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Outed Spy Valerie Plame Loses Appeal in First Amendment Case

    ​Outed ex-spy Valerie Plame Wilson, whose memoir was heavily censored by the C.I.A., lost a second attempt to get the whole story out today. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the C.I.A.'s right to edit out of Wilson's 2007 memoir, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, information relating to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    Holder's CIA Investigation Unleashes Rightblogger Rage Over 9/11, Marc Rich

    ​Attorney General Eric Holder is going to do a "preliminary review" of the CIA to see if any of the techniques their operatives used on detainees -- which the Inspector General's report reveals included threats to rape the detainees' female relatives in front of them and kill their children, m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2009

    Out There In The Dark: Rightbloggers Go Hollywood!

    As we get closer to the actual transition, rightbloggers are shifting gears. They're losing interest in the remaining pre-inaugural Obama business. We probably won't see anything like the Hillary Clinton Constitutional crisis again. Leon Panetta's CIA appointment drew some criticism on the grounds ... More >>

  • News

    November 28, 2000

    Features

    As we get closer to the actual transition, rightbloggers are shifting gears. They're losing interest in the remaining pre-inaugural Obama business. We probably won't see anything like the Hillary Clinton Constitutional crisis again. Leon Panetta's CIA appointment drew some criticism on the grounds ... More >>

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