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January 29, 2012 6:43 PM

At home with Leon Panetta

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60 Minutes Overtime Staff
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Leon Panetta is no stranger to most of us. We've known him as a congressman, a White House chief of staff, a CIA director, and now as a US secretary of defense. But have you ever seen him play a mean version of Beethoven's Fur Elise at the piano? Have you seen him relaxing with his beloved dog Bravo at his lovely California ranch, telling stories about his father as he strolls the rows of his walnut tree orchard?

This week, "60 Minutes" produced a fascinating report on the 73-year-old Panetta, but what we learned on "Overtime" is that our country's secretary of defense is anything but a bureaucratic bore.


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by Goldwater64s6 January 30, 2012 5:52 AM EST
A very enjoyable interview.
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by GeneForte January 30, 2012 12:21 AM EST
You've got to be kidding! What a puff piece.

The reason as to why it is being done now id due to the emails sent out to 45 FBI Offices across the nation on January 20th, 2012.

The information exposes that Panetta is behind a massive cover-up of an assault upon me by public officials that exposes trial fixing fixing by his sons law firm of Fenton & Keller in Monterey.

Go to Badger Flats.com. Listen and see the evidence. Thank you.

Gene Forte
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by TowerReview January 29, 2012 8:35 PM EST
Mr. Panetta laughs a lot while soldiers die. What's his job? To limit spending cuts to the military, and maintain the good old boy policies established at the beginning of the Cold War. Heroes? Honor? Jingoistic words employed to disguise the fact that we're on our third Vietnam, and that the Pentagon is run by ineffective dinosaurs with an appetite for debt and blood. Try interviewing former Col Andrew Bacevich, author of Washington Rules.
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by anotherglenngray January 29, 2012 8:00 PM EST
Mr. Panetta has performed extraordinarily as CIA chief for an administration that lacks military and geo-political savvy. He is to be greatly commended!
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