Panetta Says Risk Impeded Deployment to Benghazi

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/world/africa/panetta-tells-of-monitoring-situation-in-benghazi.html?_r=0

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From: barry levine 
Date: Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Subject: re: Panetta Says Risk Impeded Deployment to Benghazi
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   It was never clear what qualifications Leon Panetta brought to the post of Secretary of Defense. Was he the man who would make our CIA serve our military ambitions? Was he the man to subordinate our Military to our CIA? Having protected our CIA from criminal prosecutions over torture, was he going to set our Military above the Law as well? 

   Now he proposes that our military shouldn't be sent into harm's way. Perhaps only our diplomats should risk hostile fire?  If he aspires to running the Swiss Guard, he has the wrong employer.

Barry Haskell Levine