I think Andrew Sullivan has a much more insightful evaluation of the situation:
Feinstein and Rockefeller sense a real individual with real clout at the agency, whom they cannot control. There may have been a lack of foresight here in not phoning Feinstein ahead of time. But it is also indisputable that many leading intelligence Democrats were deeply complicit in the Bush torture program and his illegal wire-tapping. It was just as important for the president-elect to pick someone not beholden to them either.
Again, I don't have any opinion as to whether Panetta will be good, bad or otherwise. But just because the Intel whiners and their bruised egos are shrieking about Panetta's lack of "competence" and complaining that Obama has been hijacked by the "intellectual left" doesn't make it so. Scratch a little deeper, as Sullivan says, and you'll find a bunch of people frightened at the prospect that their own complicity in brazenly illegal acts will be exposed by someone who doesn't have skin in the game.
rest at http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/06/welcome-fellow-travelers-to-the-vast-left-wing-conspiracy/
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