Leon Panetta: “If the Department requires additional authority, I will not hesitate to seek the necessary Congressional authorization.”

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.

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.

But the facts speak for themselves.

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…