Leon Panetta: “Candidly, I join my boss, Secretary Panetta, and Marty Dempsey in finding it awkward to suggest that other nations…”

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

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.

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 America will be back fighting Iran again in a few years, no matter what happens now.