Leon Panetta actually said...

We are working with the State Department and that's why we came up with this almost 1,000 more marines.

I think there's no question that it was deliberate, it was opportunistic.

The longer you delay, the longer you avoid trying to assign some assistance there, the more dangerous these groups become and the greater th...

We have a responsibility, and I take that responsibility seriously, to do everything we can to protect our citizens.