**This photo shows Chavez with his arm around

**Linda Panetta, while former Sandinista junta leade

*Daniel Ortega smiles on, at left. You saw it here first.

If the adult daughter of a CIA Director-designate hangs out with sworn enemies of the United States, it's a matter for the United States Senate to probe aggressively. And so the Senate really has to ask some very pointed questions about Linda Panetta, daughter of President-Elect Obama's pick to lead the CIA, and her ties to Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.

Linda Panetta is a noted anti-military activist who has accused the US military of teaching Latin American officers how to torture. She has also been close to causes hostile toward the United States and friendly to the old Soviet Union, and the regimes in Cuba, Venezuela and Iran.

As a leader of School of the Americas Watch, Panetta urged Chavez to cancel Venezuela's participation in the US military school for Latin American officers in Fort Benning, Georgia. Chavez agreed, and promptly did so. As such, Compañera Panetta helped sever an important link between the US and the Venezuelan officer corps. This is a big blow to US intelligence efforts in the hemisphere

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What the heck is this all about? We're supposed to have Panetta be the head of the CIA, when his daughter is seen here with CHAVEZ?????????????????????????????????????????????????

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Compañera Panetta, with Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega

January 10, 2009