Reports on Monday confirm that Barack Obama will nominate former Clinton chief-of-staff Leon Panetta to be the next director of the CIA and retired Navy Adm. Dennis Blair to be the next Director of National Intelligence. So what are the track records of these two figures in the intelligence arena? What should be their top priorities if confirmed? And what is the biggest challenge for the intelligence community? We ask former CIA officer Larry Johnson, who also served as deputy director for the State Department’s Office of Counterterrorism.
