This article lists four CIA directors appointed as "outsiders", two who were "unwelcome", and "two of the agency's most successful directors".
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Given his background, Panetta is a somewhat unusual choice to lead the CIA, an agency that has been unwelcoming to previous directors perceived as outsiders, such as Stansfield M. Turner and John M. Deutch.
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He said that given global environment, there are indeed good reasons for Obama to select a CIA veteran to lead the CIA. But he said that two of the agency’s most successful directors, John McCone and George H.W. Bush, had little or no intelligence intelligence experience when they took over at CIA.
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