Leon Panetta: “Since the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Program (APRP) was created in the summer of 2010, the Afghan Government…”

It just -- it strikes me that what the chairman was trying to do perhaps was to try to send a wake-up call to both the Speaker and his Republican colleagues, that Russia still remains very much a threat to the United States.

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.

The secretaries of defense feel that there have to be hearings to oversee just exactly what took place and what standard this administration is going to use.

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