Leon Panetta News

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events are proud to announce that Leon Panetta, former Secretary of Defense and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, will lead this year's Memorial Day Parade as its Grand Marshal and participate in the Wreath Laying Ceremony preceding the parade on Saturday, May ... (more)

The bombshell disclosure that the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of Associated Press reporters and editors could be dramatic enough to move even the phlegmatic Obama administration to action.

Michael O'Hanlon is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author most recently of "Healing the Wounded Giant: Maintaining Military Preeminence While Cutting the Defense Budget." A deeply flawed conventional wisdom is developing that despite warnings from former defense secretary Leon Panetta and others that the sky would fall if ... (more)

Even after his retirement, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta - back home in Monterey County and his Panetta Institute for Public Policy - is never far from the issues in the headlines.

Even after his retirement, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta - back home in Monterey County and his Panetta Institute for Public Policy - is never far from the issues in the headlines.

You know America is in trouble when an actress/Playboy TV reporter/producer and her husband have a more compelling foreign policy than our State Department.

A U.S. diplomat in Libya told congressional investigators he sought in vain for fighter jets to fly over Benghazi to scare off terrorist attackers who killed the ambassador and three other Americans last year.

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has rejoined the advisory board of global communications giant FleishmanHillard, but the new gig isn't expected to be terribly taxing.

Personnel of the 624th Operations Center, located at Joint Base San Antonio - Lackland, conduct cyber operations.

Executives at U.S. weapons makers on Tuesday said their meeting on Monday with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was a "positive continuation" of a dialogue begun by his predecessor, Leon Panetta.

Personnel of the 624th Operations Center, located at Joint Base San Antonio - Lackland, conduct cyber operations.

President Obama set a trap for himself last year , when he said that if Syria were to use chemical weapons in the civil war there it would be a "game changer" that would trigger direct U.S. involvement.

April 19, 2013: President Barack Obama gets ready to speak in the Brady Press Briefing at the White House in Washington.