Leon Panetta: “I fully support the President's decision to establish Army Field Manual 2-22.3 as the single standard applicable to all…”

Well, it should not have happened. I don’t care what excuses you want to use, it should not have happened.

And ... we’re going to have to respond. And right now, because our missile systems and our supply of weapons being down, this is a vulnerable period for the United States.

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

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