Chuck Todd just announced it on MSNBC, and it was also reported on in the NY Times.
January 5, 2009, 2:30 pm Panetta to Be Named C.I.A. Director By Carl Hulse AND Mark Mazzetti
President-elect Barack Obama has selected Leon E. Panetta, the former congressman and White House chief of staff, to take over the Central Intelligence Agency, an organization that Mr. Obama criticized during the campaign for using interrogation methods he decried as torture, Democratic officials said Monday.