If Leon Panetta Was A Republican And This Was His Daughter …
But you already know the rest of that supposition.
All I have to say is during the 2004 Presidential campaign, during both a presidential and vice presidential debate, Dick Cheney’s ‘gay’ daughter was blatantly brought up and thrown on the podium by both Kerry and Edwards as a prime issue/subject in Dick Cheney’s and the Bush Administration’s policies regarding ‘gay rights’ in the country.
Now, for me that is not such a major issue, and Mary Cheney’s sexual preference in partners has so much less to do with her father’s governing than the head of the CIA whose daughter swaps arm pit stains and spit with known enemies of this country and our friends …
I’m fuckin’ talking ’security risk’ here folks. Not whether or not the VP uncomfortably smiles while slopping back a couple more bourbon and branches at the family Christmas gathering while said daughter and her ‘partner’ snuggle by the Christmas tree and exchange engagement rings.
I am talking serious vetting issues here damn it.
Compañera Panetta, with Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega
If the adult daughter of a CIA Director-designate hangs out with sworn enemies of the United States, it’s a matter for the United States Senate to probe aggressively. And so the Senate really has to ask some very pointed questions about Linda Panetta, daughter of President-Elect Obama’s pick to lead the CIA, and her ties to Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.
Linda Panetta is a noted anti-military activist who has accused the US military of teaching Latin American officers how to torture. She has also been close to causes hostile toward the United States and friendly to the old Soviet Union, and the regimes in Cuba, Venezuela and Iran.
As a leader of School of the Americas Watch, Panetta urged Chavez to cancel Venezuela’s participation in the US military school for Latin American officers in Fort Benning, Georgia. Chavez agreed, and promptly did so. As such, Compañera Panetta helped sever an important link between the US and the Venezuelan officer corps. This is a big blow to US intelligence efforts in the hemisphere.
Perhaps Linda Panetta is a clever ploy to infiltrate the Chavez regime. Somehow I really doubt it. It looks more like the other way around.
This photo shows Chavez with his arm around Linda Panetta, while former Sandinista junta leader Daniel Ortega smiles on, at left. You saw it here first.
This says a few things about CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta. While a parent can’t necessarily be blamed for his wayward children, we think senators should ask the nominee to be the next CIA chief about his daughter’s support for sworn enemies of the United States. As a congressman, Panetta was pretty soft on the communist FMLN guerrillas in El Salvador, and Daniel Ortega’s Marxist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. So father and daughter’s views do coincide somewhat.
Certainly any prospective CIA intelligence analyst would be grilled pretty hard before getting a security clearance if it was known that his or her sister or daughter was an anti-US militant who aided and abetted Chavez and the Sandinistas. And even then he might not get a very high clearance. It’s only fair to hold Leon Panetta to at least the same standards that apply to ordinary CIA analysts and operators.
The Senate has an obligation to nail down this problem when it considers confirming Leon Panetta to lead the CIA.
(H/T Babalu)
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Wikipedia mentions Leon Panetta’s 3 grown sons but no mention of a daughter.
For all but 3 years of my life I’ve in his Congressional District and this is the first time I’ve heard that he’s got a daughter.
Probably a good idea not to let the voters know your daughter’s a “Jane Fonda”.
January 17th, 2009 at 6:57 pmWhoops
Should read…
Wikipedia mentions Leon Panetta’s 3 grown sons but no mention of a daughter.
For all but 3 years of my life I’ve lived in his Congressional District and this is the first time I’ve heard that he’s got a daughter.
Probably a good idea not to let the voters know your daughter’s a “Jane Fonda”.
January 17th, 2009 at 6:59 pmI agree, drill, but we must remember that liberals have no standards; with them anything goes, psrticularly when it is anti-American. Ain’t that a bitch?
January 17th, 2009 at 7:02 pmWell fuck me on a pogo-stick! If we weren’t about to hand the reins of power to a bunch of panty waists that would be the funniest thing I’ve read all day.
January 17th, 2009 at 7:05 pmJesus Lord Help us all.
I agree, drill, be we must never forget that liberals have no standards; with them anything goes, particularly when it is anti-American. Ain’t that a bitch?
January 17th, 2009 at 7:05 pmI agree, drill, but we must never forget that liberals have no standards; with them anything goes, particularly when it is anti-American.
January 17th, 2009 at 7:07 pmThis election is looking more and more like a well organized inside job to surrender this country to the point of us not being able to resist:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
Ride his train you bastard
January 17th, 2009 at 7:11 pmThank you for that quote.
January 17th, 2009 at 7:17 pmdaughter of our future CIA chief hangs out with Hugo Chavez eh. well how about that. this keeps getting worse and worse
January 17th, 2009 at 7:20 pmFreepers are on it, something’s not kosher…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166601/posts?q=1&;page=1#1
January 17th, 2009 at 7:33 pmIt gets worse by the day and Tuesday is almost here.
January 17th, 2009 at 7:34 pmIt’s going to be a long strange 4 year ride boys and girls.
Freepers are on it. Looks like somethings not kosher…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166601/posts?q=1&;page=1#1
January 17th, 2009 at 7:34 pmThat picture with the freaking scarf around her neck reminds me of Patty Hearst
January 17th, 2009 at 7:42 pmi tried to do a little more research on this story and i can’t find any evidence that this woman is actually his daughter
January 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pmWhat is even weirder is this girl is supposed to be some big ‘activist’ photo-journalist … and I cannot find a simple bio on HER.
And Leon’s bios aren’t very wordy at all … atleast what I am finding, other than a resume-like logging of schooling and jobs.
His bio is saying three sons … but perhaps they (family and daughter Linda) had a major falling out and completely have renounced each other …
I dunno.
But why when you search, so many other sources are carrying this story … yet NOT refuting a family tie?
January 17th, 2009 at 8:08 pmShe looks nothing like Leon but then again, my daughter looks nothing like me….wait one sec…..WTF!!!!
January 17th, 2009 at 8:16 pmdrill, i have only seen a few copies of the same story floating around
it’s possible that someone is simply making the connection based on her last name, i can’t find any other relationship
if he had a daughter i’m sure it would be documented and listed on wikipedia (even though its conceivable that the libs would run coverups on wiki)
i’m no fan of leon panetta and i was eager to post this story on my blog as well, but i cannot find strong enough evidence to support it
January 17th, 2009 at 8:18 pmDrillanwr (Demanding A Boob-Job Bailout)- “What is even weirder is this girl is supposed to be some big ‘activist’ photo-journalist … and I cannot find a simple bio on HER”.
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That was my point. I’ve known of this guy & his family for 32+ years AND no one I know including my Lib family members knew of her existence.
Tusk may be on to something, she might, might… be a love child because not only doesn’t she resemble Leon, she’s the polar opposite of Sylvia Panetta, in other words good looking.
just saying
January 17th, 2009 at 10:15 pmOK, I’ll now speak as plainly as possible…
There’s no way that young woman is the child of Leon Panetta AND his wife Sylvia.
Zero, zip, nada…period.
January 17th, 2009 at 10:28 pmAll in All Panetta shouldnt be in charge of the CIA. We are giving the fox the hen house.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:11 amI can’t help but think the best cure for these anti-American military types would be to be taken hostage by some backassward Taliban group and have to be rescued by our good men in uniform.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:28 am