Leon E. Panetta, at a hearing Thursday, said interrogators could generally get information using noncoercive methods. Ruth Fremson/The New York TimesControversial Cx-CIA Director Named To Spy Panel -- AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair has asked former CIA Director John Deutch, who was stripped of his security clearance nearly a decade ago for mishandling classified information, to sit on an advisory panel on spy satellites, a lawmaker said Thursday.
Deutch, CIA director from May 1995 to December 1996 in the Clinton administration, stored and processed hundreds of files of highly classified material on unprotected home computers that he and family members also used to connect to the Internet, according to an internal CIA investigation. The Defense Department's inspector general found similar conduct during Deutch's prior service at the Pentagon.
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