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It would be a shameful act of irresponsibility if Congress just stood to the side and let [the] sequester take place ... It would turn America from a first-rate power into a second-rate power.
You can't just willy-nilly send F-16s there and blow the hell out of a place without knowing what's taking place
Another thing that was very interesting in the testimony today was that some on the committee kept bringing up that, you know, Gen. Dempsey (chairman of the Joint Chiefs) said it would take 20 hours before they could get a fixed-wing fire aircraft over Libya ... Leon Panetta (then secretary of defense) was quoted as saying it would be 12-14 hours and you’re sitting there and thinking, ‘let’s see, it’s about an hour, hour-and-a-half flight across the Med from Italy where we’ve got a major Air Force base and just a few months after we’ve had military operations flying planes regularly over Libya.More quotes »
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NZ navy visit to US port
a US navy facility and take part in joint activities. It follows a visit to New Zealand by former US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta last year, where he announced navy ships will be authorised to visit Defence Department and Coastguard facilities in the 5/25/13 from NEWS.com.au Read more »
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Gun control topic of Panetta lecture
-- James Johnson, chief of police for Maryland's Baltimore County will join the third event of the Leon Panetta 2013 Lecture Series on Monday in Monterey. The lecture, which begins at 7 p.m. at the Monterey Conference Center Steinbeck Forum, is called "Gun 5/25/13 from Santa Cruz Sentinel Read more »
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Emanuel Quinn and Panetta Mark Memorial Day With Parade And Wreath Laying
(CBS) — Mayor Emanuel, Governor Quinn, and the former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta led the way as Chicago marked Memorial Day with a parade down State Street. WBBM’s Bob Roberts reports that beforehand they participated in a wreath laying ceremony in Daley 5/25/13 from Albequerque Express Read more »
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Is 'cyber war' just a scare tactic?
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta talks to the media after a meeting of NATO defense ministers at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on Oct. 10, 2012. ATLANTA, Ga. — A growing legion of cyber war hawks contends that the world faces a mounting threat of hacker-driven from The Oakland Press Read more »
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Jack Kelly: Democrats fail to hold Obama accountable
pilots. But on 9/11/2012, Americans at our consulate in Benghazi were left behind. It may well be true, as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta claimed, that military help couldn't be sent because it was unavailable. But if that is true, somebody screwed the pooch, from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Read more »
