Leon Panetta

Type: Person

Name: Leon Panetta

Title: 23rd secretary of defense ( United States)

Nationality: United States

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First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 1 Documents

Central Intelligence Agency

Pakistan hands 33-year sentence to doctor who helped CIA track bin Laden

The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA in the hunt for Osama bin Laden was sentenced to 33 years in prison for treason Wednesday, officials said, in a further blow to relations between Islamabad and Washington.The United States had been negotiating behind ... [ Published May 23 2012 by Lexington Herald Leader ]

Entities: Pakistan, Central Intelligence Agency, Abbottabad (Pakistan)

First Reported May 22 2012 - Updated May 22 2012 - 1 Documents

Orlando Hudson

Dawn Patrol: Wheaton soldier dies in Afghanistan

A 2010 Wheaton North High School graduate, who enlisted in the Army the summer of his graduation, died Saturday from injuries sustained in Afghanistan last month. U.S. Army Spc. Samuel Watts was 20. His unit was hit by a roadside bomb April 25, and it ... [ Published May 22 2012 by Chicago Daily Herald ]

Entities: Orlando Hudson, Afghanistan, Leon Panetta

First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated May 21 2012 - 1 Documents

Leon Panetta

Defense Secretary Panetta visits Lovell federal health care facility in Lake County

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta visited Lake County after the NATO summit closed Monday to tour a one-of-a-kind health care facility serving active Navy personnel and military veterans since 2010.Panetta said the Capt. James A. Lovell Federal Health Care ... [ Published May 21 2012 by Chicago Daily Herald ]

Entities: Leon Panetta, Health Care, North Chicago (United States), NATO

First Reported May 17 2012 - Updated May 18 2012 - 1 Documents

Amy Klobuchar

Congress pays back the 'Red Bulls'

The U.S. Senate cleared long-sought legislation Thursday providing the Minnesota National Guard and more than 49,000 troops nationwide paid time-off benefits they were promised before they were shipped overseas last year.The unanimous vote was rare show ... [ Published May 17 2012 by Minneapolis Star Tribune ]

Entities: John Kline, Amy Klobuchar, John McCain, Minnesota National Guard

First Reported May 13 2012 - Updated May 13 2012 - 1 Documents

Decades Later, Mystery Still Surrounds Secretary Who Worked for CIA

The CIA director revealed only a few details about the 21-year-old woman, a secretary among spies. In the agencys annual memorial service for employees killed on the job, then-director Leon Panetta announced that a new name had been inscribed with calligraphy ... [ Published May 13 2012 by Chicago Daily Herald ]

Entities: Central Intelligence Agency, Vietnam, Bill McDonald, Doug Johnson, Leon Panetta

First Reported May 11 2012 - Updated May 11 2012 - 1 Documents

William Harry McRaven

Killing Bin Laden – spiking the football

Defense Dept. Examiner+ SubscribeTime magazine recently published a memo written by then-CIA Director Leon Panetta after he received orders from Barack Obama’s team to go ahead with the mission “to get” Osama Bin Laden. The text explains the presidential ... [ Published May 11 2012 by Examiner.com ]

Entities: William Harry McRaven, Usama bin Laden, Leon Panetta, Barack Obama, White House

First Reported May 05 2012 - Updated May 05 2012 - 1 Documents

Supercells, Haboobs, and a Saturday Night Soaking for MSP

74 F. high in the Twin Cities yesterday.66 F. average high for May 4.66 F. high temperature a year ago, May 4, 2011. .17" rain fell on the Twin Cities Friday.9 tornado touchdowns between Worthington and Kiester, Minnesota yesterday - all from the same ... [ Published May 05 2012 by Minneapolis Star Tribune ]

Entities: Tornado, Global Warming/Climate Change, Climate, Drought

First Reported May 04 2012 - Updated May 04 2012 - 1 Documents

National Guard Association official: Don't make cuts without real talks

The head of the National Guard Association of the United States, which represents nearly 45,000 current or former Guard officers, wants Congress to keep current Air Guard funding and keep its structure in place until a new budget process can be imple ... [ Published May 04 2012 by Des Moines Register ]

Entities: National Guard Association, Air National Guard, 132nd Fighter Wing

First Reported May 01 2012 - Updated May 01 2012 - 1 Documents

The Biden-Bloomberg golf game

Mike Bloomberg, who was wooed earlier today by Mitt Romney for an endorsement, also got in a round of golf last Friday with Vice President Joe Biden, sources told POLITICO.The pair was joined by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at a course somewhere in ... [ Published May 01 2012 by Politico ]

Entities: Michael Bloomberg, Joseph Biden, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama

First Reported Apr 29 2012 - Updated Apr 29 2012 - 1 Documents

Hunt a chance to reflect one year after bin Ladens death

, a special-forces operation hit a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where a target known simply as "Geronimo" was in hiding. His death marked the end of a hunt that stretched back 20 years.Tagged to Tuesday's one-year anniversary of that operation, the ... [ Published Apr 29 2012 by Detroit News ]

Entities: Richard A Clarke, Donald Rumsfeld, Assault, Interagency

First Reported Apr 27 2012 - Updated Apr 27 2012 - 1 Documents

TV critic's picks: Saturday 4/28

A house is not a home "Survivor" bad boy Russell Hantz enters the competitive world of house flipping in "Flipped Off" (9 p.m. Saturday, A&E). Watch for the scene in which Hantz installs a campfire in the kitchen, strips to his skivvies and starts dining ... [ Published Apr 27 2012 by Minneapolis Star Tribune ]

Entities: Richard Clarke, John Walsh, Donald Rumsfeld, Cockroach

First Reported Apr 26 2012 - Updated Apr 27 2012 - 1 Documents

Brazil sex worker may sue U.S. embassy over injuries

By BRASILIA (Reuters) - A former Brazilian prostitute plans to sue the United States embassy and five of its personnel for injuries sustained outside a strip club late last year, complicating the second of two embarrassing incidents to emerge recently ... [ Published Apr 26 2012 by 1440 WNFL ]

Entities: Brazil, United States, Non-Disclosure Agreement, Brasilia, Leon Panetta

Quotes

"i am very concerned about what the pakistanis did with this individual. this was an individual who, in fact, helped provide intelligence that was very helpful with regard to this operation" Panetta said during an interview aired by CBS's "60 Minutes." "He was not in any way treasonous towards Pakistan...

Pakistan hands 33-year sentence to doctor who helped CIA track bin Laden [Lexington Herald Leader - May 23 2012]

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Panetta puts restrictions on use of F-22 Raptors [ Published May 16 2012 by CBS - YouTube ]
Decades Later, Mystery Still Surrounds Secretar... [ Published May 13 2012 by Chicago Daily Herald ]
Spiking the football [ Published May 11 2012 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology ]
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CIA foils Al Qaeda plot to blast US-boun... [ Published May 08 2012 by NetIndia123.com ]
Supercells, Haboobs, and a Saturday Night Soaki... [ Published May 05 2012 by Minneapolis Star Tribune ]
Panetta: Troop Scandals Hurt US Afghan Mission [ Published May 04 2012 by Associated Press - YouTube ]
National Guard Association official: Don't make... [ Published May 04 2012 by Des Moines Register ]
Kathleen Parker: Journalists fail to recognize ... [ Published May 04 2012 by Inside Bay Area ]
US Secretary of Defense to visit Fort Benning [ Published May 03 2012 by Macon Telegraph ]

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Iraq Releases Official War Death Toll, But Figu... [ Published Feb 29 2012 by 2oceansvibe.com - Work is a sideline, live the ... ] Scenes like this were a regular occurrence during the long, bloody conflict. The Iraqi government has released official figures for the number of deaths during the period between 2004 and 2011, during which time the country was under siege from a ...

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Panetta puts restrictions on use of F-22 Raptors [ Published May 16 2012 by CBS - YouTube ]
Panetta: Troop Scandals Hurt US Afghan Mission [ Published May 04 2012 by Associated Press - YouTube ]
Panetta describes the moment bin Laden was killed [ Published May 02 2012 by CBS - YouTube ]
Panetta suspends clearances of military involve... [ Published Apr 23 2012 by CBS - YouTube ]
China helping North Korea with missile says Leo... [ Published Apr 20 2012 by Telegraph TV - YouTube ]