WASHINGTON — Sen. Evan Bayh said today that he supported President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for CIA director.The Indiana Democrat is a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which will hold the confirmation hearing for Leon Panetta if Obama officially nominates him. The panel’s top Democrat and Republican have questioned Panetta’s credentials.Bayh, however, called Panetta an “outstanding public servant.”“We should respect the judgment of President-elect Obama and his commitment to do what’s right for our country,” Bayh said in a statement.Panetta, a former member of Congress who also served as one of Bill Clinton’s chiefs of staff, has little intelligence experience.Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who heads the intelligence committee, has said the CIA is “best-served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time.”But former Indiana Rep. Tim Roemer who served on the 9/11 Commission, said that the choices of Panetta and of retired admiral Dennis Blair to be director of national intelligence were good ones. Roemer told USA Today that Panetta’s “skills, his budget acumen, his knowledge of Washington and Congress, combine perfectly with Adm. Blair’s intelligence background.”