Obama has had a hard time finding a prospective CIA chief who isn’t tainted by either involvement in Bush’s torture regime or who backed Bush’s illicit wiretapping. He was compelled to reject California Congressmember Jane Harman because of her approval of the latter. However, the person he did approve, Leon Panetta, has roused the ire of Harman’s powerful friend Dianne Feinstein, who complains that we need an “intelligence professional” heading the CIA — even though Feinstein ignored the input of several intelligence professionals in her haste to rubber-stamp Bush’s planned invasion of Iraq.