James Gandolfini hadn’t been relevant in six years. Sure, he’s had small roles here and there, most notably for about five minutes as CIA Director Leon Panetta in Zero Dark Thirty. But ever since we last saw Tony Soprano looking up to see his...
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When CIA Director Leon Panetta ebulliently thanked members of SEAL Team Six at an agency ceremony honoring participants in the manhunt for Osama bin Laden, he was not aware that the CIA's public affairs shop had allowed writer Mark Boal to attend,...
WASHINGTON — Several weeks after overseeing the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, then-CIA Director Leon Panetta violated security rules by revealing the name of the raid commander to the writer of the film "Zero Dark Thirty," according to a...
New details have emerged that while Director of the CIA, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta divulged Top Secret details of the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, potentially jeopardizing the safety of the Navy SEALs who executed the raid, and...
Former CIA Director Leon Panetta
Apparently CIA Director Leon Panetta leaked classified information according to an unreleased report obtained by the Project On Government Oversight. From POGO:
The Defense Department Inspector General’s office has...
Leon Panetta, the former defense secretary and director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has struck a $3 million deal to write a memoir of his life and career, the New York Times reports.
Said Panetta: "I have seen Washington at its best and at...
Nicknamed the “Nintendo medal,” this decoration would go to
troops who fight America’s wars from behind computer consoles. The
February debut of the Distinguished Warfare Medal saw former
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta praising drone operators...
Why didn’t President Obama order troops to Benghazi to protect what remained of our diplomatic delegation and their security staff? The only known communication between the president and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta during the attack took...
In Dexter Filkins’ otherwise probing article in the May 13 New Yorker on the problem-from-hell that is Syria, Sen. John McCain fumes over the recent disclosure that all of President Obama’s top advisers—Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta,...
Corinthian Colleges announced today that Leon Panetta, until recently the U.S. Secretary of Defense, and Marc Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League, have joined the for-profit college company's board of directors. In a field marked...
Since former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta last year warned of the risks of a "cyber Pearl Habor" striking U.S. infrastructure, experts have been arguing back and forth about the scale of cyberthreats facing the U.S. This week, researchers from...
By Courtney Kube, Pentagon Producer, NBC NewsDefense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday eliminated the Distinguished Warfare Medal, overturning one of Leon Panetta’s last acts in the position.Follow @NBCNewsUS
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Presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum tried to form a unity ticket, but failed because they were... presidential candidates. Jennifer Granholm isn't running for Senate but we're still holding out hope that Detroit native Jerry...
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks after receiving awards from Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey during a ceremony at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, February 14, 2013. (Photo: AFP/Getty...
Contrary to former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's ominous warning last year that the U.S. could be vulnerable to a "cyber Pearl Harbor," director of national intelligence James Clapper said there were no current cyberthreats of this scale to U.S....
In February, the now former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta introduced the Distinguished Warfare Medal, a non-combat medal, for those engaging in cyber warfare.
The medal was quickly met with backlash from vets and lawmakers and the new Defense...
What is the sequester going to do to the US Navy's energy and biofuel initiatives, which former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta described as among his most important?
Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on Thursday criticized the military’s lackluster approach to sexual violence, saying that some officials “looked the other way” rather than pursuing convictions. These words came during the...
Chuck Hagel was confirmed to replace Leon Panetta as the US Secretary of State last month after nearly a month of resistance in Congress, making certain Israel supporters nervous.
Supporters of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a...
