Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Top 10 Revelations From Leon Panetta's New Book

Top 10 Revelations From Leon Panetta's New Book 'Worthy Fights' -- Anna Mulrine, CSM

Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta tackles some major policy debates in his new book, “Worthy Fights: a Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace,” out Tuesday.

These include whether President Obama pushed hard enough to leave US troops in Iraq back in 2011 (Mr. Panetta doesn’t think so) to whether the White House tried to cover up the circumstances surrounding the death of a US ambassador in Benghazi, Libya. (No, but Panetta disagreed with the intelligence assessments of then-CIA director David Petraeus.)

Here are the top 10 revelations – some more surprising than others – from the book.

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My Comment: There are a few gems here (i.e. getting a brick from Bin Laden's home is a unique souvenir) ... so check it out.

1 comment:

Buick93 said...

I might actuallt read this book. Panetta is definitely the first salvo in distancing Hilary and the Democratic Party from Obama. Panetta is definitely in Hilary's camp and is gunning for a position of power in the next Clinton administration.

Mark my words. If the woman from Texas somehow beats perry, you will have an all-woman ticket from the Democrats in 2016.