Leon Panetta: “What he's been doing these last few weeks, I think in many ways, weakens this country rather than strengthens it.”

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.

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.