Leon Panetta: “The President's and Department of Defense's (DOD) 2012 Strategic Guidance states the military will defend U.S.…”

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.

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.

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