Special Operations Speaks Demands Panetta’s Resignation
“Well, when the president does it, that means it is not illegal.” (Sound Familiar?)
Dear Fellow Americans:
At a time of international crisis, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is channeling Richard Nixon to justify Obama’s national security leaks, leaks that risk our national security and put our troops in danger.
Leon Panetta gave an interview to CBS on Tuesday, in the course of which he was asked several questions about the publication of No Easy Day, an account of the bin Laden raid by a member of SEAL Team Six. When asked what the difference was between publishing the book and Obama granting Hollywood filmmakers special access to sensitive operational materials, Panetta had this to say:
“There’s a fundamental difference. The people that presented some of the details of the operations were authorized to do that by the president of the United States, who has that authority to do that, and inform the American people as to what happened.”
Reread the quote above...
Panetta not only just admitted that Obama leaked national security secrets, but he justified Obama’s actions with the Nixonian rationale, “Well, when the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”
