President Obama has made clear that a selection of Leon Panetta was intended as a clean break with the past, a break from secret detentions and coercive interrogation, a break from outsourcing its work to a small army of contractors, and a break from analysis that was not only wrong, but the product of bad practice, that helped lead our nation to war.
Panetta discusses Obama's intent for reforming CIA practices.
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Well, it should not have happened. I don’t care what excuses you want to use, it should not have happened.
I think we have to take this intelligence assessment as a real threat to NATO.
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.
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