By Karen DeYoung and Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, January 7, 2009; Page A01
President-elect Barack Obama said yesterday that he has selected a "top-notch intelligence team" that would provide the "unvarnished" information his administration needs, rather than "what they think the president wants to hear."
But current and former intelligence officials expressed sharp resentment over Obama's choice of Leon E. Panetta as CIA director and suggestions that the agency suffers from incompetent leadership and low morale. "People who suggest morale is low don't have a clue about what's going on now," said CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield, citing recent personnel reforms under current Director Michael V. Hayden.
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