The WaPo corrects itself!

Via Redstate, more from Pejman Yousefzadeh on Panetta at the CIA.





CORRECTION TO THIS ARTICLE
This article incorrectly described current and former intelligence officials as believing that the CIA suffers from incompetent leadership and low morale. The sentence should have said that the officials expressed resentment about such suggestions

By Karen DeYoung and Joby Warrick

Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, January 7, 2009; Page A01

President-elect Barack Obama said yesterday that he has selected a "top-notch intelligence team" that would provide the "unvarnished" information his administration needs, rather than "what they think the president wants to hear."

But current and former intelligence officials expressed sharp resentment over Obama's choice of Leon E. Panetta as CIA director and suggested that the agency suffers from incompetent leadership and low morale. "People who suggest morale is low don't have a clue about what's going on now," said CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield, citing recent personnel reforms under Director Michael V. Hayden.

I don't read the Washington Post, so putting a correction at the head of an article may be routine for them, but somehow I don't think so. This may be the one and only time I will be in agreement with the repulsive senator from West Virginia, Jay Rockefeller.

According to the article, there might be some competent professionals left at the CIA, but the top guy will be the one making the decisions and the question is will his decisions be for the good of all of us or the good of the One.