Leon Panetta: “I'd like to believe it was an instance where his own conscience said, I've got to tell the American people the truth.”

It is inexcusable not to do the proper planning that has to be done in order to make sure that their deployment is not overextended, that they’re getting the supplies they need, that they’re getting the support they need.

And the problem is, we now realize that 80% of our THAADs are down, that our Patriots were down almost more than one half … and we’re down in our Stingers, we’re down with all of our critical missile systems at a time when there is a real…

That’s too long, and it should have been brought back sooner.

I think we have to take this intelligence assessment as a real threat to NATO.