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The Pentagon announced Tuesday plans to put women in front-line combat roles by 2016.

Allegations that the White House sought special access to the Defense Department for screenwriters planning a film on the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Ladin were found unsubstantiated in a Pentagon inspector general's report released on Friday.

Drawing cheers and a few guffaws as he delivered the commencement address Saturday at his alma mater, former CIA director and U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta urged Santa Clara University graduates not to despair about the country's troubles or conclude they have little chance of fixing them.

"You're a 21st century campus, men and women reflecting the great diversity of our society, open to all faiths and beliefs, a broad curriculum that reflects our times and a commitment to your creed of building citizens who are leaders of competence, conscience and compassion."

A Pentagon inspector general's report says U.S. special operations forces who participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden were in uniform and wearing nametags during a CIA award ceremony attended by the writer of the film "Zero Dark Thirty."

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How did a journalist whose career was devoted to exposing injustice end up writing a film like Zero Dark Thirty ? Mark Boal.

A former CIA chief of staff says U.S. officials are concerned that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden could be "aiding our enemies" by handing over sensitive U.S. intelligence to the Chinese government.

President Barack Obama will name Avril Haines, a White House legal adviser, as deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency after the current director, Michael Morell, said he would retire in August, the White House said on Wednesday.

This country is proud of its commitment to the Constitution. But right now, real review is being ignored.

Leon and Sylvia Panetta, founders of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy in Monterey, Calif.

You can be one of the most powerful men in the United States, as Monterey's Leon Panetta was while serving as director of the Central Intelligence Agency and then secretary of defense.

After a draft report of a Defense Department internal investigation showed former CIA chief Leon Panetta incidentally revealed secret information in front of a Zero Dark Thirty filmmaker, Rep. Peter King on Thursday sent a letter to the secretary of defense demanding the final version of the report be released "immediately."

In 2009, I warned in this space that Obama CIA nominee Leon Panetta was the most likely leaker of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's "benign neglect" memo to the New York Times in 1970.

Several weeks after overseeing the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, then-CIA Director Leon Panetta violated security rules by revealing the name of the raid commander to the writer of the film 'Zero Dark Thirty,' according to a draft report by Pentagon investigators.

The recent congressional ire over the Obama administrationA s suspiciously convenient national security leaks reminded me of an unusual bit of political trivia: Defense Secretary -- and prior to that, CIA head -- Leon Panetta is the prime suspect in one of the most notorious political leaks of all time.

Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta laughs during the Panetta Lecture Series at The Panetta Institute at CSU Monterey Bay in Seaside, Calif.

You can hazard a guess at whose cliques helped Boal and Bigelow and whose didn't from the casting.

This undated file photo shows al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Several weeks after overseeing the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, then-CIA Director Leon Panetta violated security rules by revealing the name of the raid commander in the presence of a Hollywood screenwriter, according to a draft report by Pentagon investigators.

Former CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed the name of the Navy SEAL unit that carried out the Osama bin Laden raid and named the unit's ground commander at a 2011 ceremony attended by "Zero Dark Thirty" filmmaker Mark Boal, according to a draft Pentagon inspector general's report obtained by a watchdog group.