CIA's Leon Panetta Not Eager To Swap Jobs: Agency -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Leon Panetta is happy as CIA director and has not been asked by President Barack Obama to consider changing jobs, the agency said on Thursday, as speculation swirled over changes in top U.S. security posts.
Robert Gates has made clear he plans to step down as defense secretary this year and the military's top officer is expected to retire, prompting speculation about who will move where in Obama's impending reshuffle of military and intelligence chiefs.
One scenario being speculated has Panetta -- who turns 73 in June -- replacing Gates and the director's office on the seventh floor of CIA headquarters being taken over by General David Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
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My Comment: When you reach 73, the last thing that you want to do is get a new job. I suspect that Leon Panetta likes his job at the CIA, and for him to drop everything and go into the rough and tumble bureaucratic world within the Pentagon .... hmmmm .... I suspect that he is saying no.