CIA Director Leon Panetta addresses the media at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, Mich. , Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. Panetta was scheduled to address members of the area's large Middle Eastern community at the Iftar, the evening meal that breaks the fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. AP Photo logo AP Photo 2 months ago

CIA Director Leon Panetta addresses the media at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, Mich. , Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. Panetta was scheduled to address members of the area's large Middle Eastern community at the Iftar, the evening meal that breaks the fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

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  1. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 07: Bob Grenier, former CIA station chief in Islamabad, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing about Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan on Capitol Hill October 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. On the eighth anniversary of the United States' invasion of Afghanistan, witnesses testified, and disagreed, about what affect a withdrawal of U.S. forces from that country would have on Al-Qaeda.
  2. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 07: Bob Grenier, former CIA station chief in Islamabad, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing about Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan on Capitol Hill October 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. On the eighth anniversary of the United States' invasion of Afghanistan, witnesses testified, and disagreed, about what affect a withdrawal of U.S. forces from that country would have on Al-Qaeda.
  3. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 07: Bob Grenier, former CIA station chief in Islamabad, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing about Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan on Capitol Hill October 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. On the eighth anniversary of the United States' invasion of Afghanistan, witnesses testified, and disagreed, about what affect a withdrawal of U.S. forces from that country would have on Al-Qaeda.
  4. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 07: Bob Grenier, former CIA station chief in Islamabad, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing about Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan on Capitol Hill October 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. On the eighth anniversary of the United States' invasion of Afghanistan, witnesses testified, and disagreed, about what affect a withdrawal of U.S. forces from that country would have on Al-Qaeda.
  5. Bob Grenier, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Al-Qaeda threat in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
  6. CIA Director Leon Panetta, right, meets with Imam Husham Al-Husainy at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, Mich., Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. Panetta addressed members of the area's large Middle Eastern community at the Iftar, the evening meal that breaks the fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
  7. CIA Director Leon Panetta speaks at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, Mich., Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009 during the iftar, the evening meal that breaks the fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
  8. CIA Director Leon Panetta addresses the media at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, Mich., Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. Panetta was scheduled to address members of the area's large Middle Eastern community at the Iftar, the evening meal that breaks the fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
  9. CIA Director Leon Panetta, right, meets with Imad Hamad, regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, Mich., Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. Panetta addressed members of the area's large Middle Eastern community at the Iftar, the evening meal that breaks the fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
  10. In this Feb. 25, 2009 file photo, CIA Director Leon Panetta speaks with reporters at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va. Panetta has been on the losing end of a string of high-profile battles over the agency's past missteps, stoking questions about the ultimate bureaucratic insider's future at a time when his agency is under intense public scrutiny. But despite the rumors, intelligence officials close to Panetta insisted Friday that he is not going anywhere, saying he retains a comfortable perch in Obama's inner circle.
  11. A full page recruiting ad from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is seen in 'The Arab American News' newspaper in Dearborn, Michigan November 25, 2009. In dire need of agents fluent in Arabic, the agency has bought full-page ads in Arabic-language newspapers and is rolling out TV ads aimed at recruiting Arab-Americans and Iranian-Americans. Picture taken November 25, 2009.
  12. A full page recruiting ad from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is seen in 'The Arab American News' newspaper in Dearborn, Michigan November 25, 2009. In dire need of agents fluent in Arabic, the agency has bought full-page ads in Arabic-language newspapers and is rolling out TV ads aimed at recruiting Arab-Americans and Iranian-Americans. Picture taken November 25, 2009.
  13. A full page recruiting ad from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is seen in 'The Arab American News' newspaper in Dearborn, Michigan November 25, 2009. In dire need of agents fluent in Arabic, the agency has bought full-page ads in Arabic-language newspapers and is rolling out TV ads aimed at recruiting Arab-Americans and Iranian-Americans. Picture taken November 25, 2009.
  14. Editor and publisher of the 'The Arab American News' newspaper Osama Siblani holds up a full page recruiting ad from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in his newspaper in Dearborn, Michigan November 25, 2009. In dire need of agents fluent in Arabic, the agency has bought full-page ads in Arabic-language newspapers and is rolling out TV ads aimed at recruiting Arab-Americans and Iranian-Americans. Picture taken November 25, 2009.
  15. This Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 picture shows a building in the Antaviliai, Lithuania, 20 kilometers (12 miles) outside Vilnius which allegedly housed a CIA prison. The two-story structure - a former riding school for the rich - is allegedly where the CIA held suspected Al-Qaida prisoners five years ago.
  16. This Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 picture shows a building in the Antaviliai, Lithuania, 20 kilometers (12 miles) outside Vilnius which allegedly housed a CIA prison. The two-story structure - a former riding school for the rich - is allegedly where the CIA held suspected Al-Qaida prisoners five years ago.

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