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Topic: Leon Panetta

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February 13, 2013
12:21 am

Barack Obama, left, shakes hands with Chuck Hagel in the White House on January 7, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Senate panel to vote on defense nominee Hagel

Opponents to former Republican senator circulate memo calling for more data on his finances, citing precedent set by Democratic senators

February 12, 2013
2:31 am

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, in Washington DC, in May. (Photo credit: Chad J McNeely/Ministry of Defence/FLASH90)

Barak to embark on one last US trip

Defense minister to meet with senior administration officials ahead of Obama visit

February 11, 2013
9:28 pm

Former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama's choice for defense secretary, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination. (photo credit: AP/Susan Walsh)

Defense pick Hagel to get committee vote Tuesday

Armed Services panel chairman pushing ahead despite opposition from Republicans, who call for more inquiries into nominee’s finances

February 11, 2013
2:27 am

Senator Lindsey Graham, R-SC, speaks in December during a Capitol Hill news conference in Washington, D.C. (photo credit: AP/Ann Heisenfelt)

Senator vows to delay Obama’s nominees over Libya

Republican lawmaker accuses White House of ‘stonewalling’ requests for more info about the Sept. 11 attacks on the US consulate

February 9, 2013
3:41 am

Former Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, President Obama's choice for defense secretary, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington on January 31. (photo credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate may vote next week on Hagel for defense secretary

Armed Services Committee head rejects GOP demand for more financial information on nominee

February 9, 2013
1:30 am

US President Barack Obama attends an Armed Forces Farewell Ceremony to honor outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, left, on Friday at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Va. Joint Chiefs Chairman Army Gen. Martin Dempsey is at right. (photo credit: AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)

Obama salutes Panetta during farewell

Outgoing defense secretary, who oversaw the killing of Osama bin Laden, says his post was a ‘hell of a ride’ and the ‘honor of my life’

February 9, 2013
12:42 am

Secretary of State and former Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry leaves a closed-door briefing on the investigation of the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi last December. (photo credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Kerry says US weighing Syria options anew, is mum on arming rebels

White House fears weapons could end up in wrong hands and endanger Israel or the US, spokesman says

By AP and Michal Shmulovich

February 8, 2013
7:48 am

Outgoing US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Thursday (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

US aims to deploy quick response forces globally

In testimony before Congress, outgoing defense secretary Panetta defends handling of Libya crisis

February 7, 2013
10:28 pm

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta (photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Panetta: US backs arming Syrian opposition

Defense secretary’s statement is in contradiction to America’s previous official rhetoric on the civil war in Syria

February 7, 2013
4:37 am

The aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman sits in the Persian Gulf on Feb. 8, 2005.(photo credit: Rome J Toledo, US Navy/Department of Defense)

Cash-strapped US military to cut Persian Gulf fleet

USS Harry S Truman will not return to Middle East, leaving only one American carrier group near the strategic Strait of Hormuz

By Lolita C. Baldor

February 5, 2013
10:50 pm

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey presents IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz with the Legion of Merit on Tuesday 5, February, 2013. (photo credit: IDF Spokesman Office)

IDF chief awarded US Legion of Merit

Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz receives honor for his outstanding command and noteworthy service

By Stuart Winer

February 3, 2013
5:43 pm

Former Senator Chuck Hagel testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing last month (photo credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Politics at play in Hagel’s questioning, Panetta says

Outgoing defense secretary disappointed confirmation hearing focused on past statements about Israel instead of current affairs

February 3, 2013
3:38 am

Senate Armed Services Committee ranking member Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., center , asks a question of former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, in foreground, during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination on Thursday. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., left, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, listen. (photo credit: AP/Susan Walsh)

Panetta pans senators for missing the point in Hagel hearing

Lawmakers failed to tackle the most important policy issues, instead ‘talked a lot about past quotes,’ outgoing defense secretary charges

By Haviv Rettig Gur

February 2, 2013
3:02 pm

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu attends a press conference in Davos, Switzerland, last month (photo credit: AP/Michel Euler)

Turkish FM slams Assad for not responding to Israeli strike

Ahmet Davutoglu says his government will not stand by as Israel attacks a Muslim country

By Yoel Goldman

February 2, 2013
7:34 am

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta attends a ceremony in Lima, Peru, last October (photo credit: AP/Martin Mejia/File)

Panetta suggests Washington fully backs Israeli strike on Syria

Outgoing defense secretary says US intent on preventing transfer of sophisticated weapons to terrorists, warns of Iran’s export of manpads

By Michal Shmulovich

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