At home with Leon Panetta

By: 60 Minutes Overtime Staff
Topics: Overtime Original

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 TruthMakesPeace June 11, 2012 11:41 AM EDT: It is good he has a place to "get his humanity back" He admits Washington DC is an inhumane place. He lied to America about the Bin Laden raid. He could not look straight at the camera as he told the story. Americans are not so stupid any more, with the Internet. We must resist any attempt by the CIA or other agencies to censor it. Leon, you know what you did, and so do we. Go to your California retreat, meditate, and do what is right. Tell the truth.; Reply to this comment


by stanleyblog June 11, 2012 2:03 AM EDT: Panetta is a WAR MONGER, WAR CRIMINAL. He recently spoke before U.S. Marine troops, and they were ordered to disarm before he spoke, because he was afraid one of them might shoot him for these endless deployments and endless manufactured wars in the Middle-East for the Oil and Banker cartels to support the Petro-Dollar, aka Dollar-Reserve currency. Iraq 1 & 2, Afghanistan, then Yemen, Egypt spring, Libya, Syria in-progress and next will be Iran. The troops are sick and tired of it. Wait until Israel does a false flag attack on U.S. ships in middle east just like U.S.S. Liberty and tries to blame it on Iran. Wait until some false flag event during summer Olympics in London 2012 in July/Aug and try to blame it on Iran, to start another war front. All just to jack up the price of crude oil, to generate RECORD PROFITS for Big 7 sister oil companies, (Shell, Mobil, ARCO, EXXON, PHILLIP/UNICAL/ CHEVRON) and the likes of Dick Cheneys - Halliburton, and Bush families Carlisle Group, all America troop blood for OIL, for Record profits for Oilers, and dollar-reserve currency. Wait until crude oil goes to $200-$400 because of this WAR MONGER PSYCHOPATH Panetta. In a recent session of Congress before Senator Jeff Sessions, Panetta testified that U.S. troops now answer to NATO & THE U.N. and not to Congress, and not to the U.S. Constitution. And that Panetta after getting coalition support "MIGHT" inform congress of military action in the middle east. He needs to be indicted and arrested for TREASON. When crude oil goes to $200-$400, you will be paying $10-$15-$20 per gallon at pumps for gas and diesel. Grocery Store shelves will empty because the truckers can't afford price of diesel to deliver produce. People who are hungry will RIOT. WHY did DHS Dept. Homeland Security purchase 750 million rounds of .40 S&W ammo last in April? WHY did DHS purchase bullet proof check point booths? To shoot Americans who are hungry and riot and herd them into FEMA CAMPS to be fed and killed?
When fuel hits $200-$400 per barrel, that will precipitate and cause HYPER-INFLATION and HIGHER interest rates, that will KILL THE DERIVATIVES AND EVERY MAJOR U.S. BANK. to kill the Euro, and as result the dollar-petro-reserve-currency. Broke nations lending to broke nations. All to crash the dollar, why to rip-off every holder of a U.S. DOLLAR BACKED TREASURY BILL. E.g. Saudi Arabia, Japan, China, and every Maw & Paw, and Grandma & Grandpa. Penatta is the step-child of Rockefeller who funds the Federal Reserve to crash the dollar via Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Gary Gensler, and Paulson, and George Soros. CRIMINALS EVERY ONE OF THEM, need to be indicted and prosecuted for MASS GRAND FRAUD and Ponzi schemes.; Reply to this comment


by pattyland June 10, 2012 9:18 PM EDT: I have great respect for the 60 minutes news team, but when they can't refer to the president as president obama, as other presidents have been referred to, I can't help but wonder why; Reply to this comment

by Goldwater64s6 January 30, 2012 5:52 AM EST

A very enjoyable interview.

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by Thetruthwillprevail June 10, 2012 8:38 PM EDT: That puff piece may be enjoyable for Obama administration cheerleaders, but where were some hard hitting questions from Pelly the so-called hard-hitting journalist? The most important question overlooked when delving into the Bin Laden story - why was all that classified information released after the Bin Laden raid? Was it mere coincidence that all those Seal team six members were killed when that Chinook was shot down?


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; Reply to this comment


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.; Reply to this comment


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!; Reply to this comment

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