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Tag Archives: Panetta
Panetta, outgoing Secretary of Defense: drone war must be ongoing
Outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has insisted that the U.S. needs to keep its covert drone program in place. Panetta served as CIA director between 2009 and 2011, during which time the intensity and severity of strikes in Pakistan … Continue reading
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Tagged CIA, Drones, Pakistan, Panetta, permanent war, U.S.
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The Predator Empire Spreads its Wings to Nigeria
Leon Panetta , the current U.S. Secretary of Defense, told influential Washington think tank ‘Center for a New American Security’ that the fight against al-Qaeda would take U.S. Special Forces and ever-more drones to geographically-dispersed regions of the planet that … Continue reading
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Tagged CIA, Drones, military, Nigeria, Panetta, Special Forces, U.S.
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Defense secretary openly refers to CIA’s drones
Speaking to U.S. and NATO troops, first in Naples and later in Sicily, Panetta twice referred to the Predator drones he controlled in his previous job as CIA director. It was a rare on-the-record confirmation of the agency’s use of … Continue reading
Escalation of Shadow Wars and Black Ops under Panetta
At his Thursday confirmation hearing to become secretary of defense, CIA Director Panetta made a broad case for expanding the U.S.’ already extensive shadow wars. Now that bin Laden is dead, “we’ve got to keep the pressure up,” Panetta urged … Continue reading
Troops in Iraq Beyond 2011 Pullout
Leon Panetta, outgoing CIA Director and incoming Secretary of State, said that Iraq will request the presence of US troops beyond the agreed withdrawal deadline of December 31st, 2011. The exact scale of the retain force is unknown, and will … Continue reading
Micah Zenko on the need for accountability
Leon Panetta had unique and unprecedented access into U.S. targeted killing programs as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (February 2009–June 2011) and secretary of defense (June 2011–February 2013). As Daniel Klaidman revealed last year, one procedural change … Continue reading →