Obama Appoints New CIA Chief With No Intelligence (er, background, that is)

Here's my pick of the day for 'counter-intuitive intelligence'. Soon-to-be-be Prez Barack Obarmy (sic) has appointed Leon Panetta as his new head of CIA. What makes Panetta, in Obarmy's view, especially fitted for the job? Well its because Panetta has no National Intelligence experience or background whatsoever. 

So how does Panetta even qualify for consideration? Well apparently it is because he is against the CIA's interrogation policies - you know, the ones that brought forth a whole mass of intelligence evidence from Gitmo detainees that led to numerous major arrests of some of the world's most evil men and kept America safe from ANY major terrorists attacks these past 8 years.

So America and the world can sleep more soundly in their beds tonight. Of course, by 20 January (coincidentally my birthday) you'd all better be prepared to arm yourselves to the teeth. 'Cos your intelligence agency just got headed up by a refuge from Sesame Street.

It is useful to bear in mind the difference between coercive interrogation techniques and torture, of course. Sadly, those with little or no intelligence, by being wholly unable to make the distinction (a bit like those who don't grasp the difference between child disciplinary smacking and physicial abuse), imperil the rest of us.

Welcome to Obarmy's brave - if increasingly appeasing and dangerous - new world.