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CIA director-designate Leon Panetta was supposed to have his confirmation hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence tomorrow morning.
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My friend Eli Lake reports for the Washington Times that Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence intend to question CIA director-designate Leon Panetta about whether he played any role in ordering terrorism suspects extrajudicially kidnapped and sent to other countries for questioning and probable torture while he was chief of staff to Bill Clinton.
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But since he's already deputy director, there won't be a big Senate hearing on him, as there would have been had Feinstein had her way and he was the new CIA director-designate.
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But since he's already deputy director, there won't be a big Senate hearing on him, as there would have been had Feinstein had her way and he was the new CIA director-designate.
William Bradley: CIA: The Panetta Pick and the Feinstein Factor William Bradley 2010
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The conductor Yannick N é zet-S é guin, music director-designate of the Philadelphia Orchestra, led a remarkably vivid and fierce account of the score, conjuring up this world of harshness and brutality as well as the silken, soaring moments of pure beauty.
A Harsh World Rendered Visually and Viscerally Heidi Waleson 2010
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But since he's already deputy director, there won't be a big Senate hearing on him, as there would have been had Feinstein had her way and he was the new CIA director-designate.
William Bradley: CIA: The Panetta Pick and the Feinstein Factor 2010
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And early comments from Lawrence Summers, director-designate of the National Economic Council, suggest the new administration isn't inclined to be too kind to the banks.
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Over the weekend, Lawrence Summers, Mr. Obama's director-designate for the National Economic Council, and Jason Furman, likely to be Mr. Summers's deputy director, signaled their readiness to devote $25 billion toward tax incentives to promote conservation and renewable energy.
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Matt Moran, currently the bank's chief financial officer, has been appointed finance director-designate.
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At a special program at Alice Tully Hall hosted by Tom Brokaw, New York Philharmonic music director-designate Alan Gilbert conducted orchestra members in a performance of Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," which was conducted at the ground-breaking by Leonard Bernstein, then the orchestra's music director.
Jane Levere: Rockefeller, Drucker Look Back as Lincoln Center Turns 50 2009
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