Leon Panetta
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WASHINGTON — CIA Director nominee Leon Panetta says the Obama administration will not conduct the same kind of "extraordinary rendition" that were allowed under the Bush administration.

Panetta told a Senate committee on Thursday that Obama forbids what Panetta called "that kind of extraordinary rendition — when we send someone for the purpose of torture or actions by another country that violate our human values."

CIA Pick Panetta: No More Torture, Renditions
Thursday, February 5, 2009 3:41 PM
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/panetta_cia_hearing/2009/02/05/178800.html

About the Institute: Leon E. Panetta, Institute Co-founder

In 1993 he left Congress to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget for the incoming Clinton administration. There he was instrumental in developing the policies that led to a balanced federal budget and eventual budget surpluses. In 1994 he accepted appointment as the President’s chief of staff, and over the next three years brought order and focus to White House operations and policy making.

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