Panetta Warns of Cyberattacks

(Hat tip: Carolyn Webb) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned a Senate panel today [Wed., June 13] that America faces "the potential for another Pearl Harbor" launched by enemies who have the capability to wield a cyberattack that would “paralyze this country.” Read more at CNS News... Read More......

The Spending Threat to Our National Defense

Consider it a warning from the highest levels of the U.S. government. Yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta held a joint press event in Washington in which they cautioned that U.S. debt is jeopardizing America’s ability to ensure national security and preserve its interests abroad. Read more at the Heritage Foundation's Morning Bell ... Read More......

Panettagate?

ACCURACY IN MEDIA (AIM), 6/14/2011 by Cliff Kincaid - Panettagate: A Real Scandal Involving National Security

[Snip] ...[I]n the spirit of public service, which the Post is apparently encouraging, my friend and associate Trevor Loudon and I have dug into the background of CIA director and Secretary of Defense nominee Leon Panetta. It’s too bad that we didn’t have this material [.pdf] assembled before now, but better late than never. The evidence shows that Panetta had a close and personal relationship with a member of the Communist Party by the name of Hugh DeLacy, whose record included meeting with communist espionage agents. By any objective standard of journalism, this should be big news. But the question now is whether the media, liberal and conservative, will take time off from Weinergate to pay attention and examine the evidence. Read more at AIM...

Related:
Reuters, 6/14/2011 - Senate panel approves Panetta as defense chief: "He is expected to win a Senate floor vote in the near future as the next U.S. defense secretary but the exact timing of that vote is still uncertain."
UPDATE at AIM, 6/15/2011 - Who Checked Out Leon Panetta?
UPDATE at The Examiner by Diana West, 6/18/2011 - Questions Congress must ask of Leon Panetta
UPDATE at AIM, 6/20/2011 - Panetta’s War on Reagan’s Defense Policies

Panetta's Full Senate hearing/floor vote is scheduled for Tuesday, June 21, 2011!

6/21/2011 - Panetta unanimously confirmed. Read More......