Panetta comes armed with background in fighting Budget - New York Times

WASHINGTON - Leon Panetta e. is defined to support the direction of the Department of defense while the United States fought on three fronts, but it has been selected to work in small part because his war at home will be with the Congress on the budget of the Pentagon. And in this battle, the defence budget analysts, said Wednesday, it is exceptionally well armed.

Leon e. Panetta, 72, Director of the C.I.A. was previously Director of the White House budget office and the House budget Committee.

Mr. Panetta, 72, Director of the C.I.A. previously served as Director of the White House budget office and the House budget Committee and was formerly a moderate Republican. (He was forced to as head of the Office of human civilians because the White House under President Richard Nixon thought that he applied too with enthusiasm discrimination laws, he then has to work for Mayor John V. Lindsay in New York). A Democrat since the beginning of the 1970s, Mr. Panetta has links to both sides of Capitol Hill, where he served in the Congress of California for a term of eight, until he became the first Director of the budget of President Bill Clinton in 1993.

Its expertise would serve as well as he faces $ 400 billion in reductions in national security ordered by President Obama through fiscal year 2023, a bracing reality after a decade of ever more big budgets Pentagon since the terrorist attacks of September 11. Mr. Panetta - accessible and jocular personality - should also help in negotiations with the Congress.

"I've sat in sessions with him at 2 o'clock in the morning with Newt Gingrich and trafficking in the omnibus of leadership appropriations on budget-cutting," said Gordon Adams, Professor at American University who oversaw military spending when he worked for Mr. Panetta in Clinton budget Office. "Dr. Adams, which referred to the time when Mr. Gingrich was speaker of the House," said Mr. Panetta"knows how to draw a line, he knows how to to hang tough, he knows when to concede and he knows when to close a deal. ?

Although Mr. Panetta is not a classic military strategist who can easily evaluate weapons systems and to understand the workings of the Pentagon, he has the reputation of a solid Manager command in the chaotic Clinton White House.

His work for the C.I.A. also help him negotiate reports of criticism and frustrating the army with the spy agency of Pakistan, the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence, said that US officials continue to play a double game and support to the United States and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Director of the CIA, Mr. Panetta met regularly with lieutenant-general Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the head of the Agency, a relationship, it is certain to continue.

Mr. Panetta, the son of Italian immigrants who served as first lieutenant of the army in the 1960s, has a family farm, walnut in Carmel Valley, California.

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