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7 Mar 2009, 10:36 pm
Leon Panetta has said that we're going to continue renditions, provided we're not sending people to countries that torture. [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 8:20 am by Raffaela Wakeman
From the AP, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta reportedly joked at the U.S. base in Naples, Italy: “obviously I have a helluva lot more weapons available to me in this job than I had at the CIA. [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 5:00 am by Jessica Dorsey
At the start of his tour of the Middle East, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has argued that Assad’s offence on Aleppo is the “nail in the coffin” for his regime. [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 4:11 pm by Tom Parker
The Senate confirmation hearings for the new Director of the Central Intelligence, Leon Panetta, raised the most significant flag when he told Senators that he had no intention of holding CIA officers responsible for the policies they were told to carry out – effectively suggesting the historically discredited defense of “only obeying orders” would be given currency by the Obama administration. [read post]
21 May 2012, 1:49 pm by Raffaela Wakeman
Instead of citing any direct statements to that effect by an authorized official, plaintiffs rely on vague and ambiguous statements by former CIA Director Leon Panetta and President Obama, none of which expressly acknowledges the information that plaintiffs seek here: that the CIA possesses responsive records relating to drone strikes. [read post]
23 Nov 2011, 8:16 am by Ateqah Khaki, ACLU
But in fact, the director of the CIA, General David Petraeus and the Secretary of Defense (and former CIA Director) Leon Panetta have both said that the 2009 Executive Order applying the Army Field Manual government-wide and the 2005 McCain Anti-Torture Amendment work and are consistent with good national security. [read post]
8 May 2012, 5:00 am by Jessica Dorsey
During talks at the Pentagon, US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie agreed to work together to improve cybersecurity. [read post]
20 May 2011, 3:30 pm by Jessica Monaco, ACLU
It would be hard to find a better authority on where the truth lies than CIA Director Leon Panetta and he says, mmm, not so much. [read post]
28 Aug 2009, 11:18 am
" CIA Director Leon Panetta issued a statement to the agency's employees, in which he said that the material covered in the newly released documents "is in many ways an old story," and asserted that his "primary interestâ€â [read post]
15 Jun 2012, 12:27 pm by Ritika Singh
Just in case you were worried, SecDef Leon Panetta tells us that no classified information was provided to Hollywood in the making of the movie about the Bin Laden raid, says the Los Angeles Times. [read post]
21 Nov 2011, 2:03 pm by Jamison Koehler
”  First, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced on Friday that he will issue “very direct guidance” in the coming months to reduce sexual assault in the military. [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 9:43 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
’ US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Tuesday said that Pakistan’s capture of the senior Al Qaeda figure was an ‘encouraging’ sign that Islamabad was ready to bolster its cooperation with US counter-terrorism efforts. [read post]
3 Apr 2013, 12:11 pm by hls
What struck me is that in that same month period, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced he would lift the ban on women in military combat—removing an argument that was once used by opponents of the ERA — that women can’t serve in combat. [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 10:02 am by Todd Ruger
“America's broken medical liability system is a good place to start to reduce federal spending and to avoid cuts Secretary of Defense [Leon] Panetta has called putting a gun to the head of the country and weaken our defense system for the future,” Smith said during the hearing. [read post]
2 Jan 2007, 8:22 am
Finally, Pelosi should heed former White House chief of staff and ex-congressman Leon Panetta, who said â € œyou can attack one party for having a lack of ethics, but if any of your own members have problems, it dulls the message with the American people, they begin to put everybody in the same box. [read post]
31 Jan 2012, 9:46 am by Ritika Singh
Also, Adam Serwer of Mother Jones discusses Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s remarks on CBS’s 60 Minutes about the targeting of Anwar al-Awlaki. [read post]
6 Sep 2009, 5:28 pm by michael a. livingston
George Mitchell, who is not going to get a Middle East peace deal anyway, is one choice; Leon Panetta, who is probably sorry he took the CIA job, is another. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 5:40 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Here is the brief of appellee former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Here is the brief of appellee current Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 7:23 am by Raffaela Wakeman
A letter from Attorney General Eric Holder, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to Republican Senators defended their decision to try Ahmed Warsame in a U.S. civilian court. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 6:15 am by Chris Cheatham
You apparently don't have to prove that it didn't cost more--or the Army is interpreting it that way, at any rate, while working closely with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on "educating" Congress. [read post]