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17 Feb 2012, 4:50 am by Benjamin Wittes
Ritika linked yesterday to this New York Times oped by USC law professor Mary Dudziak, which opens: THE defense secretary, Leon E. [read post]
7 Jan 2013, 5:24 am
But he ultimately withdrew his name amid questions on the left over his ties to controversial CIA programs. " Looking back at my own posts, I see that I believed that Leon Panetta had been chosen to head the C.I.A. [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 10:01 am by Michelle Lindo McCluer
'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();Here's one entry on the military's handling of sexual assault cases, spurred by questions during this week's Senate Armed Services Committee hearings, featuring testimony from CIA Director Leon Panetta (recently nominated to replace Robert Gates as Secretary of… [read post]
28 Oct 2014, 10:00 pm by The Book Review Editor
Former Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta observed in his recent memoir that so-called “lone wolf terrorists”–terrorists who work without group assistance−are a growing threat to the internal security of the United States. [read post]
15 Jun 2009, 6:37 am
Two months later, CIA Director Leon Panetta fired Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and all other contractors that aided the CIA in its interrogations of alleged terrorists, the New Yorker reported this weekend. [read post]
10 Feb 2013, 11:59 am
A while later, there was a discussion of Leon Panetta's testimony about Benghazi. [read post]
27 Jan 2013, 4:54 pm by Lisa A. Mazzie
This week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the military’s ban on women in combat will be lifted. [read post]
7 Feb 2009, 12:28 pm
And today's edition of The Los Angeles Times contains an article headlined "Panetta tells Senate panel he'll examine the effectiveness of coercive interrogation; Leon Panetta, Obama's nominee to head the CIA, says he'll look into claims that coercive methods can produce reliable information; That could open the door to reinstatement of some techniques. [read post]
9 May 2018, 2:30 pm
According to those records, which include a declaration under oath from then-CIA Director Leon Panetta, the 92 destroyed tapes depicted abuse of two detainees: Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. [read post]
In December, Senator Mark Udall (D-Colo.) revealed that former CIA Director Leon Panetta had commissioned a separate report about the torture program — and that this Panetta report "amazingly" contradicted the findings of the CIA's official response to the committee. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 2:49 pm by Michelle Lindo McCluer
While the US government hasn't placed any new detainees in the military prison at Guantanamo Bay for several years, the camp would likely make room for al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, should they be captured alive, testified CIA Director Leon Panetta today. [read post]
28 Jul 2016, 12:21 pm
That's the question I asked out loud as I watched Leon Panetta's speech last night.I found this fact-checking at CBS:Clinton has been touting her plan for months. [read post]
2 Dec 2014, 11:01 am by Benjamin Bissell
A little over a week after Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced he was leaving his post, CNN reports that President Obama has decided on Ashton Carter, who served as Deputy Defense Secretary under both Leon Panetta and Hagel, to be his replacement. [read post]
22 Oct 2010, 6:32 am by John Phillips
After the latest investigation concerning the CIA deaths, CIA Director Leon Panetta conceded that there were glaring security blunders. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 8:42 am by Jordan Brunner
Former Obama administration official, former U.N. ambassador and National Security Advisor Susan Rice wrote in a series of tweets: [View the story "Susan Rice on NSC Reorganization" on Storify]   Former CIA Director Leon Panetta has also decried the move: “The last place you want to put somebody who worries about politics is in a room where they’re talking about national security,” said Leon E. [read post]
6 Jan 2009, 3:02 am
.-- Leon Panetta, whom President-Elect Barack Obama's just nominated to be the next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. [read post]