Leon Panetta: “Let me be clear. You can't take a half trillion out of the defense budget and not incur additional risk. There is no…”

The president, as commander in chief, has the power and responsibility to determine America’s future security.

Something, somebody, somewhere failed to do the proper planning for what had to take place in order to properly support our men and women in uniform.

The facts have to be presented to the American people, and it's the American people who will judge what is right or wrong.

I don’t think there is any question that we are dealing with classified information.