U.S. Defense Chief Leon Panetta's Second Office Is His Home

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta responds to a question from an audience member at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., Aug. 23, 2011. DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jacob N. Bailey

Defense Chief Leon Panetta's Commute Raises Eyebrows -- L.A. Times

Some wonder how the Defense secretary can manage frequent weekend trips to his California home, but aides say he's never out of touch.

Reporting from Washington — Shortly after Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta took office July 1, he boarded a U.S. Air Force jet and flew home to California for a three-day weekend. He has flown home five weekends since then and has spent part of a two-week vacation there.

Aides say that unless he is required to stay in Washington or travel elsewhere, Panetta will spend most weekends and days off at his 12-acre walnut farm in scenic Carmel Valley, where he and his wife, Sylvia, make their home.

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My Comment: Welcome to the 21rst century where technology makes it possible to do some jobs anywhere .... as long as you have the communications infrastructure to back you up .... which I suspect Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has. Case in point .... I do a lot of web work (including this blog), and in the past six months I have worked from my office and home in Montreal, my farm in the eastern townships of southern Quebec, my chalet up in the Laurentians of Quebec, at my friends winery in Napa California, Kiev in the Ukraine, St. Petersburg in Russia, Quanzhou in China, and finally .... Vancouver.