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16 May 2017, 8:37 am by Amira Mikhail, Russell Spivak
We’re rounding up key public statements addressing President Trump’s disclosures of classified information to with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the U.S. [read post]
16 Jul 2011, 9:23 pm by Lovechilde
By Tom Engelhardt, originally published at TomDispatch, July 12, 2011. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 11:30 am by Lovechilde
  Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, who perversely called the latest green on blue incidents signs of Taliban “weakness,” told the press: “I’ve made clear and I will continue to make clear that, regardless of what the enemy tries to do to us, we are not going to alter our strategy in Afghanistan. [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 5:43 am by Christopher Ehrfurth
District Court for the District of Columbia against President Obama, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and CIA Director Leon Panetta. [read post]
28 Feb 2018, 2:15 pm by John Floyd
They include three former CIA Directors (John Deutch, David Petraeus, and Leon Panetta), a former National Security Adviser (Sandy Berger), and a former U.S. [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 4:37 pm by Lyle Denniston
  The repeal, however, has not yet taken effect, and will not — under Congress’s orders — until the President, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and the nation’s top military officer have formally declared that the military can handle repeal. [read post]
4 Feb 2009, 12:00 am
Leon Panetta, however, has said that he will use diplomacy to minimize the risk of torture, but that the CIA could seek the use of harsher interrogation methods "if necessary. [read post]
3 Mar 2012, 5:22 pm by Kenneth Anderson
It has not yet been presented to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, the White House or Congress, the sources said. [read post]
1 Dec 2013, 7:00 am by Daniel Byman
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned that “the next Pearl Harbor…could very well be a cyber attack. [read post]
26 Feb 2015, 12:16 pm by Sebastian Brady
The remark signaled a shift in strategic position on cybersecurity; in 2012 then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned of a “cyber Pearl Harbor” that could cripple the country. [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 11:05 am by Sebastian Brady
” The New York Times reports that an internal CIA report commissioned in 2009 by former CIA director Leon Panetta found that the agency consistently inflated the value of intelligence gleaned through brutal interrogations. [read post]
1 May 2011, 9:47 pm by Adrian M. Baron
  Meanwhile, al Qaeda continued to operate from along that border and operate through its affiliates across the world.And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network.Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a… [read post]
22 Jul 2013, 9:30 pm by Maxwell Blum
 Former Central Intelligence Agency director and outgoing Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, recently warned that “a destructive cyberattack could paralyze the nation,” likening the threat to a “cyber-Pearl Harbor. [read post]
13 Mar 2012, 4:17 pm by Lovechilde
The next day, again addressing an AIPAC audience, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta set the president’s commitment in stone: “No greater threat exists to Israel, to the entire region, and indeed to the United States, than a nuclear-armed Iran... [read post]
3 Mar 2012, 5:22 pm by Kenneth Anderson
It has not yet been presented to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, the White House or Congress, the sources said. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 9:06 pm by Howard Friedman
The Obama administration is in the process -- and Leon Panetta, who's the new defense secretary, will implement -- essentially, the repeal of "don't ask/don't tell" so gays will be allowed to serve openly in the military. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 8:51 am by Lovechilde
  And mild as those projected cuts might have been, last week newly minted Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was already digging in his heels and decrying the modest potential cost-cutting plans as a "doomsday mechanism” for the military. [read post]
2 Oct 2013, 3:18 am by Matt Danzer
Judge Newman continues his questioning, asking how comments by then-CIA Director Leon Panetta discussing the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki on the television show 60 Minutes could possibly be read as referring to anything other than the CIA interest in the targeted killing program. [read post]
3 Nov 2009, 1:45 pm
Five years after my own release from prison - and months after delivering a commencement speech at the University of Maryland's graduation, speaking moments before CIA Director Leon Panetta - I found myself on an American Bar Association panel with lawyers and psychologists. [read post]