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Leaky Leon Does More Damage
Even in his official photos Panetta can’t keep his lips closed. Marcy pointed out even before it aired that Defense Secretary (and former CIA Director) Leon Panetta’s televised confirmation that Dr....
View ArticlePanetta Continues to Ignore Reality, Calls Surge a Success
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta looks as though he is going to be the last person on the planet to realize what a failure US strategy in Afghanistan has become. Today, while visiting New Zealand, he...
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Panetta, DoD Use Semantic Games to Claim Joint Operations Nearly Normal Again...
Civilian casualty rates in Afghanistan updated through August of 2012, as obtained by Spencer Ackerman at Danger Room. Click on image for a larger view. Late Thursday, Leon Panetta contributed even...
View ArticleConfusion Rules in Afghanistan
Still steadfastly refusing to admit publicly that its Afghanistan strategy has failed completely and that a new, more rapid timetable for withdrawal must be developed before the November election, the...
View ArticleBreaking: Panetta Equating Crude Iranian Cyberattacks with Pearl Harbor, Iran...
Today, the NYT–serving its role as spokesperson for the Cold War against Iran–confirms what blabby Joe Lieberman told CSPAN last month: the government suspects Iran was behind a series of crude...
View ArticleInvestigating National Security Personnel in the Post-Nidal Hasan Era
Three years and one day before FBI briefed DNI Clapper about the questionable email practices of David Petraeus, and less than three years before FBI alerted Leon Panetta to John Allen’s perhaps less...
View ArticleSpooks in Wolf’s Clothing
We’ve known for some time that the military was rolling out its new-and-improved HUMINT function, the Defense Clandestine Service. But this article–laying out the ambitious goals of the program–is all...
View ArticleDelay in Publishing Afghan War “Progress” Report Forces Panetta Into...
By law, the Department of Defense is required to prepare reports on “progress” in the war in Afghanistan twice a year. The first report for 2012 was published (pdf) in April, so one would expect the...
View ArticleShorter Gen. Nicholson: “Yeah, We Lied Earlier About Afghan Troop...
It would appear that even the Washington Post is beginning to see through the way that the Defense Department continues to make outrageous claims regarding the capabilities of Afghan National Security...
View ArticleFive Polio Workers in Pakistan Killed in Further Fallout From Panetta’s Leak
Providing more evidence that perhaps the best move President Obama can make for world affairs is to quickly appoint a new Secretary of Defense so that Leon Panetta can retire to a soundproof booth,...
View ArticleZero Option on Table as Karzai Comes to Washington
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is in Washington this week for a visit that culminates on Friday in a meeting with President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He also meets with...
View ArticleRather than Lying to Congress, CIA Now Blows It Off
Five months into Obama’s first term, then-CIA Director Leon Panetta caused a scandal by telling Congress about Blackwater-staffed assassination squads deployed under the Bush Administration; we would...
View ArticleAfter Talking about Restoring Trust in CIA, Panetta Lies about the Young...
“Every drone strike,” [Baitullah Mehsud] would say, “brings me three or four new suicide bombers.” –Joby Warrick, The Triple Agent Leon Panetta is doing something of a media swan song this weekend,...
View ArticleDC Circuit Sends CIA’s Glomar Claims Back to the Drawing Board
The DC Circuit just remanded the ACLU’s drone targeted killing lawsuit (the one I talked about here) to the District Court. The decision is based on a theory Merrick Garland used in the hearing (which...
View ArticleRay Davis as a Stand-In for the War between CIA, ISI, and State
In another installment of his book, Mark Mazzetti describes the Ray Davis episode as the signature (pun intended) event that turned Pakistan against the US. Certainly the Davis episode provides a nice...
View ArticleMark Udall to Obama: You Can Force John Brennan to “Excise the Demons”
I have to admit, this letter from Mark Udall urging Obama to support the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report is close to shrill when describing CIA Director John Brennan’s...
View ArticleTorquemada Pursued Suspected Muslims, Not Journalists
In an article flattering Eric Holder’s sense of remorse once he realized how inappropriate it was to claim a journalist engaging in flattery might be a co-conspirator in a leak, Daniel Klaidman quotes...
View ArticleLeon Panetta: Sheep Dipping Secrets
POGO has a story that adds a new twist to an old story. The old story is Leon Panetta, leaking classified info, in this case, leaking info on the Osama bin Laden raid to a Zero Dark Thirty executive....
View ArticleAl Pacino Couldn’t Protect CIA Headquarters
There’s a funny passage from the DOD Inspector General on Leon Panetta’s blabbing about the Osama bin Laden raid that was leaked to POGO. It describes CIA’s apparent helplessness from protecting CIA...
View ArticleDOD Inspector General Report: SOCOM Purged Their Osama bin Laden Files after...
I wanted to point to one more detail from the DOD Inspector General’s report on Leon Panetta’s leaks to Zero Dark 30′s filmakers. The very last page of the report describes how Admiral William McRaven...
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