Hints and tips:
...Last year, Mr Obama – faced with advice from a heavyweight trio of Hillary Clinton, then secretary of state, Martin Dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and Leon Panetta, former CIA chief and...
...He has been a congressman, head of the budget office, White House chief of staff, Central Intelligence Agency director and secretary of defence, and at each stage he won high marks for being effective, loyal...
...Even when he was cornered last year by Hillary Clinton, the then secretary of state, David Petraeus, then director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Leon Panetta, then defence secretary, Mr Obama rebuffed...
...John Brennan, the Obama administration’s nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, gave a vigorous defence of the policy of killing suspected terrorists with drone strikes but suggested that the agency...
...The US has evidence that the Syrian government is considering using chemical weapons in its war with rebel forces, defence secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday in the starkest warning yet by the Obama...
...Britain has MI6 super-spy James Bond, who recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of his first cinematic adventure; the US has the Central Intelligence Agency....
...“He was not in any way doing anything that would have undermined Pakistan,” Mr Panetta said....
...Intelligence Agency and who was the military leader lobbying hardest for the 2009 troops surge....
...In his first trip since taking up the post this month, the straight-talking former Central Intelligence Agency director told US troops in Baghdad that the current indecision was “frustrating” and he would...
...Those original goals have been largely met and today, as CIA Director Leon Panetta noted last June, “I think at most, we’re looking at maybe 50 to 100, maybe less” al-Qaeda members remaining in Afghanistan...
...Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, levelled the strongest allegations made by the US against Pakistan in a decade when he accused the army’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency...
...Pakistan has arrested five suspected informants who worked with the US’s Central Intelligence Agency before the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, western officials said, in a move that will further strain...
...Leon Panetta, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has said Islamabad was deliberately not told of Sunday’s raid in which bin Laden was killed out of fear that the target would be tipped off....
...“It was decided that any effort to work with the Pakistanis could jeopardise the mission,” Leon Panetta, CIA director, said in an interview with Time magazine. “They might alert the targets.”...
...Mr Panetta has said Islamabad was deliberately not told of the raid out of fear bin Laden would be tipped off....
...The US has sought to convince Pakistan to rebuild co-operation with the Central Intelligence Agency, as the heads of the two country’s intelligence agencies met to discuss the US “war against al-Qaeda”....
...Leon Panetta, CIA director, has estimated that there are only 50-100 al-Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan, since most of the group’s leadership fled across the border to Pakistan soon after the 2001 Afghan...
...Barack Obama is preparing for big defence cuts and a possible change of emphasis in Afghanistan with a reshuffle placing General David Petraeus at the CIA and Leon Panetta, the agency’s current head, at...
...General David Petraeus, commander of US forces in Afghanistan, is in talks to replace Leon Panetta as CIA director if, as is expected, Mr Panetta is nominated to become the next secretary of defence, officials...
...In a staff memo, Leon Panetta, outgoing CIA director, said: “We have rid the world of the most infamous terrorist of our time.”...
...Leon Panetta, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has said if Osama bin Laden were captured, the US would probably move him to Guantánamo....
...This week Mr Obama announced that Leon Panetta, head of the Central Intelligence Agency, would replace Robert Gates, the defence secretary who also served under Mr Bush....
...Furthermore, just three days before the operation, Mr Obama nominated Leon Panetta, CIA director, as secretary of defence, and Gen David Petraeus, commander of forces in Afghanistan, to be Mr Panetta’s successor...
...The Central Intelligence Agency has acknowledged that a series of missteps and errors led to the worst attack on its staff in decades....
...Yet public remarks by Leon Panetta, outgoing head of the CIA, and interviews with other US officials, reveal a more complicated political calculus....
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