Jan 6th, 2009 · President-elect Barack Obama is expected to choose former congressman Leon Panetta to head the CIA. Panetta has relatively little experience in national security matters, although he did participate in daily intelligence briefings with President Bill Clinton when he served as Clinton's chief of staff between 1994 and 1997.
Jan 5th, 2009 · President-elect Barack Obama will bring former Clinton administration official and federal budget expert Leon Panetta, 71, back to Washington to head the Central Intelligence Agency. Obama plans to fill the other top intelligence post with a military man: retired Navy Adm. Dennis Blair.
May 26th, 2007 · Leon Panetta, the California Democrat who left Congress to become President Clinton's chief of staff, reflects on changes in partisan behavior over the past three decades.