WASHINGTON — In choosing Leon E. Panetta to be the next CIA director, President-elect Barack Obama appears to have concluded that a spy chief who understands politics may be better equipped to ...

"I was not informed about the selection of Leon Panetta to be the CIA director," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who will chair the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in the 111th Congress.

In his new memoir, Leon Panetta describes his years as CIA director and defense secretary. (Susan Walsh/Associated Press) Maybe President Obama should have asked his Cabinet secretaries to sign ...

WASHINGTON — Leon Panetta, a Northern California political ... of the choice before news leaked out Monday. Choosing a new CIA director has been a difficult decision for Obama.

Former CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed the name of the Navy SEAL unit that carried out the Osama bin Laden raid and named the unit’s ground commander at a 2011 ceremony attended by “Zero ...

The Senate on Tuesday unanimously confirmed CIA Director Leon Panetta to serve as the next secretary of defense. Panetta, who was tapped by President Obama in April to succeed Robert M.

Leon, you're on your own. CIA Director Leon Panetta is about to lose his top deputy -- a veteran official who's been his de facto bridge to the rest of the agency since he was brought on board to ...

Former CIA director Leon E. Panetta clashed with the agency over the contents of his recently published memoir and allowed his publisher to begin editing and making copies of the book before he ...

President Obama's CIA director on Friday urged agency employees to concentrate on their mission and not get sidetracked by the high-volume argument in Washington spurred a day earlier when House ...

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with former Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Leon Panetta and his former chief of staff Jeremy Bash about a range of ...

Leon Panetta, former director of the Central Intelligence ... of an issue that they were concerned about." Q: As a former CIA director, former chief of staff, with this information out there ...

Former CIA director and U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has accused Israel of engaging in "terrorism," leveling a charge against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that's ...