Former CIA Chief Leon Panetta condemns Israel's pager attack against terrorist leaders: "terrorism"

Former CIA Director under Barack Obama, Leon Panetta on Sunday condemned Israel's brilliant trojan horse attack on Iran-supported Hezbollah's leadership via pagers and walkie talkies. Rather than seeing the ingenuity of the Jewish State and the fact that it's being attacked by Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria and whoever else can get a shot at them, "The Schnoz" goes after Israel, the one country that uses every means to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties. 

“I don’t think there’s any question that it’s a form of terrorism,” said Panetta, who increased drone strikes and other counterterrorism activities, particularly targeting leadership and organizations in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia. He also served as Secretary of Defense under Obama.

While speaking to CBS News, Panetta expressed fear that terrorism is “going right into the supply chain.”

“And when you have terror going into the supply chain, it makes people ask the question: ‘What the hell is next?'” the political hack added.

The pagers and walkie talkies that exploded were the property of the heads of Hezbollah and compared to other countries, the USA included, have targeted a specific group of terrorists. Sadly, there will always be innocent lives lost in war, but while Hamas and Hezbollah aim for this, Israel does all it can to avoid it. 

The pager, walkie talkie event killed at least 37 terrorists and around 3,000 were wounded and taken out of commission in the jihad against Israel. Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani was one of the injured and based on his position, had no business with a Hezbollah device which cost him the loss of an eye.

Fighting terrorists, killing and wounding them is not terrorism, it's defensive preemptive action. While Israel has remained mute on the pager attack, it's highly likely it was Israel who caused the loss of life, testicles, and other body parts of terrorists who were in the throes of planning to attack Israel in the same way Hamas did on October 7, 2023. 

“This is a tactic that has repercussions. And we really don’t know what those repercussions are going to be,” Panetta said on Sunday. “The forces of war are largely in control right now.”

“I think it’s going to be very important for the nations of the world to have a serious discussion about whether or not this is an area that everybody has to focus on, because if they don’t try to deal with it now, mark my word, it is the battlefield of the future,” he added, obviously hating when Israel comes out on top.

“What an absolute doofus,” terrorism expert Max Abrahms added.

Panetta headed up the CIA because Barack Obama appointed him due to his help getting Democrats elected, not because he had experience in that area. He was also chief of staff for Clinton for similar reasons.

Leon Panetta is so incompetent at his job that in 2011 following the Bin Laden raid, he addressed a group of people at a CIA Headquarters event to honor those connected to the raid. At the event, the idiot disclosed "Secret" and "Top Secret" information regarding the brave souls who found Bin Laden and those who were on the ground to get him. Panetta unmasked the SEAL team and the ground commander while also revealing more Top Secret information during his speech with 1,300 people in attendance, many of whom had absolutely NO SECURITY CLEARANCE to be privy to that information.

Many of us are old enough to remember when in October 2020, Panetta and 50 other former senior intelligence officials signed the infamous letter stating that the Hunter Biden laptop controversy had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation" because it had damaging information to the Biden campaign. We all knew back then that the laptop being "Russian disinformation" was complete balerdash put forth by Democratic political hacks including Panetta.

Now, Panetta has once again decided to weigh in, this time on the “pager” attack on Hezbollah terrorists. He said on "CBS News Sunday Morning" that, “I don’t think there’s any question that it’s a form of terrorism,”

“This is going right into the supply chain,” he added. “And when you have terror going into the supply chain, it makes people ask the question: ‘What the hell is next?’”

Hezbollah has been Iran's main terrorist proxy and has significant political and military control over the people of Lebanon. The terrorist organization has been battering Israel with rocket, missile and drones barrages which began the day after Hamas savagely attacked Israel and slaughtered 1,200 people on October 7. Since this all began, over 60,000 Israelis in the north have been forced to flee their homes.

Leon Panetta is a fool and needs to leave the political scene. He doesn't know the difference of terrorism from counterterrorism.

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In other words, they lied about Benghazi

Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, obtained an email showing that a high-ranking Pentagon official urgently messaged then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top deputies offering military help as the Benghazi attack unfolded. 

In other words, help was offered at the outset of when the attack began.

Parts of the email were redacted that described what military forces were available.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta back in 2013 told lawmakers that there wasn't enough time to get military help to Benghazi. He said that "time, distance, the lack of an adequate warning, events that moved very quickly on the ground prevented a more immediate response."

In other words, Panetta lied through his nose.

Jeremy Bash, Panetta's chief of staff, emailed the following at 7:19 p.m. ET on September 11, 2012: 

"I just tried you on the phone but you were all in with S [Secretary of State Hillary Clinton]." The email went on: "After consulting with General Dempsey, General Ham and the Joint Staff, we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak."

This email was sent in the early stages of the attack, right after the first wave at the consulate, before the mortar strike on the CIA annex that killed Ty Woods and Glen Doherty.

This email shows clearly that military help was offered and was never deployed.

In other words, Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta lied about Benghazi at every turn, every question asked of them. 

It was never about a video and Clinton knew it, just as she told her daughter what really happened and the public, what Obama wanted us to believe.



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Benghazi and the House Select Committee: they're shaking in their boots

The House Select Committee investigating Benghazi will be led by Trey Gowdy (R-SC).  Gowdy says that he has witnesses who are willing to come forward and testify about a cover-up. 

The military, After Action Report will be subpoenaed along with the power to obtain un-redacted emails. The Presidential Daily Briefings will also be requested, and Gowdy is clear that he wants to see all relevant material and he will judge the relevancy with his own eyes.

There is no known date as to when the findings will be completed but a resolution date will be named soon.

While Adam Schiff (D-CA) wants to boycott the committee hearing, I believe he, like the Democratic party, is part of the problem. What happened in Benghazi transcends politics. Some in the GOP seem to understand that. But the liberals want to continue to protect this administration and to do so, it is at the expense of the nation.

House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor (R-VA) spoke on Greta Susteren's On the Record and says that he is optimistic about the outcome of the investigation, although he cannot predict how long it will last.

John McCain (R-AZ) is adamant about  wanting to know president Obama's whereabouts the night of September 11, 2012. He also believes that Jay Carney has destroyed his reputation as a journalist with his misrepresentation of the facts around Benghazi. 

The one thing I know is true, the military doesn't wait to see if things are safe before attempting to rescue fellow Americans in harm's way. They move toward the sounds of gunfire. And nobody knew how long the assault was going to last, so there is no excuse to stand down. Leon Panetta is a fool if he believes anyone who ever wore a military uniform takes that seriously.

But knowing the attackers used mortars and heavy weapons proves they were not attacking spontaneously, was so obvious that even Obama forgot about what he said back in 2012, when he spoke about Russia and Ukraine. He agreed that an attack with such weaponry could not have come from a spontaneous attack.

The problem with lying is, you need a good memory. And I remember what Hillary said.

A New York reporter, is captured by Islamist terrorists who demand the release of three Gitmo prisoners in exchange for him. If the president refuses their demands, they plan to behead the reporter and videotape it for the Internet. But the United States doesn’t give in to terrorist’s demands and he has 24 hours before he is to be executed. 

The clock is ticking . . .                                         

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Hillary is Not Judgment-Proof

It has become very clear that at least some of the deaths at Benghazi could have been prevented and that the Obama administration was directly involved in covering up the facts that pointed to their incompetence.  Specifically, Hillary Clinton the Former

Secretary of State, did nothing to come to the aid of the consulate where Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were killed by Islamic terrorists belonging to Ansar al-Sharia, an arm of al Qaeda. 

Victoria Nuland, the Department of State spokesperson, was instrumental in removing all references to Ansar al-Sharia, al Qaeda, and basically all aspects of the truth regarding what really happened last September 11th.  

The Boston Marathon jihadist bombing on April 15th, in Jay Carney's way of thinking may have been "fairly long ago," and the administration would like to see that buried along with Benghazi, but it hasn't gone away. Terrorist One, the older brother of the pair, was killed and no cemetery in Massachusetts wanted to allow his body to be buried on their grounds. But it was learned that an Islamic cemetery in Virginia has opened its arms to the dead carcass and provided him with an Islamic funeral, complete with the al-Fahtihah, a prayer prescribed to be said 17 times a day that denounces the Jews and Christian infidels. The people in that Virginia community were not told of the burial and only today was it mentioned on Fox News after the story appeared yesterday on Pamela Geller's: AtlasShrugs.com. 

Now we've learned of another misstep in this administration, but this time it's with the IRS. Seems like our least liked arm of government has been going after not-for-profit organizations with names like "Tea Party," or "Patriot." They've been asking questions about managment's connections things of a more personal nature. It seems that the companies singled out by the IRS, even though they initially denied doing that in the first place, are those that have supported conservatives. Many liberals are just as upset as conservatives as this constitutes an abuse of power by an organization that is supposed to be nonpartisan, but some liberals are yelling "foul," and say the right is being political. Funny, but they never said anything foul about the left when

they went after Nixon for exactly the same thing.

But back to Benghazi. Former Vice President, Dick Chaney told lawmakers on Thursday, "I think Hillary (Clinton) should be subpoenaed if necessary."The good news is that Republicans will continue to press for answers because contrary to what Hillary said, it actually does matter how our four Americans were killed. It not only matters to the family, the mothers who are having a sad Mothers Day today, but it matters to us and our understanding of how something as terrible as this happened and what can we do to prevent a recurrence.

Hillary lied at least 3 times. First when she told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that "we didn't have a clear picture" about the actual facts on the attack, when in fact, Gregory Hicks, the second in command at the U.S. Mission in Libya, testified on Wednesday that he informed Clinton the night of September 11th and 12th of exactly what took place at the compound. 

Next, she lied to the Senate when she said that  she herself saw what Chairman Mullen and Ambassador Pickering referred to as timely and exceptional coordination--there was no hesitation, no delays in decision-making, and no orders to stand down from Washington or the military." But the Benghazi hearing revealed that  help was denied twice--by the State Department's Foreign Emergency Support Team and when Lt. Col. Gibson was ordered to stand down.

Third, when Clinton told the Senate that she did not see any diplomatic cables from Libya asking for more security. "I didn't see those requests," she said. "They didn't come to me. I didn't approve them. I didn't deny them." However, Gen. Dempsey had told the Senate in February that it seemed improbable that she did not see the cables, saying, "I would call myself surprised that she didn't."

One thing that seems quite clear to me is the need for Mrs. Clinton to be subpoenaed for this hearing. I would also like to see Leon Panetta testify too and prove what he said when he arrogantly told us that when the danger is unclear we do not deploy help when American lives are at risk. That's precisely what we do. We do not wait until the danger subsides--we act, we fight, we extract our people--even when they're dead. That's what the military does, and Panetta should know that as Secretary of Defense. Maybe they should have simply made him Secretary of the Secretary of Defense and put a military person in that position; say someone like Alan West. He would have known what to do. But enough said about Panetta; let's get back to Hillary.

Clinton's role in the Benghazi debacle is unclear because she wasn't interviewed by the State Department's Accountability Review Board, and they made great efforts to blame those at the bottom while protecting those at the top. And the media would never hold her responsible for anything that might affect her run for office in 2016--in fact, I wouldn't be surprised to see them applauding when she enters the room.

What's obvious is that there are those on the left who would hold Hillary Clinton blameless under all circumstances--not because she actually is blameless, but because she, like Obama, is a rock star politician. I can only hope that the Benghazi whistleblowers will cast a shadow of real doubt on this administration, but somehow I think they're laughing at the country because they believe they'll get away with their incompetency.

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Is Leon Panetta Trying to Help Iran Against Israel?

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Is Leon Panetta trying to destroy Israel? Is he trying to warn Iran that Israel plans an attack on their nuclear facilities? Is Obama calling the shots on this one or is Panetta shooting from the hip, like the entire DoJ did with Fast and Furious where Eric Holder allegedly knew nothing?

I cannot fathom the reason why our DefenseSecretary, Leon Panetta, would make public his belief or knowledge that not only does he expect an Israeli attack on Iran is coming, but that it will happen in April, May, or June.  He said this to David Ignatius of the Washington Post. Panetta would not confirm this.

It's bad enough Obama has disrespected Bibi Netanyahu and Israel, but this is more than disrespect--it's dangerous. But since when is it considered a mistake to telegraph  military plans to the enemy--Obama does it all the time.  We told them in Iraq and now we've told them in Afghanistan.  This is proof that not only is Obama incompetent to help grow an economy, he is equally as incompetent to be Commander in Chief.  I truly believe that the lives of our brave men and women lost in these wars were diminished by his failed military policies and rules of engagement.

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Panetta: Another James Clapper with a Bigger Nose

"So Barack says to Netanyahu . . . "

Leon Panetta spoke at the Brookings Institute where he admonished Israel and said that they better do more to negotiate with the Palestinians and "Just get to the damned table--". He said that Israel must negotiate for a two state solution, and used some expletives to show the pseudo-macho frustrations of a little man with a large nose. Although he admitted that the failure to negotiate isn't entirely Israel's fault, but he made it clear that Israel should reach out and mend fences with those who share an interest in regional stability--you know, like Egypt, Turkey and Jordan--places that love the Jewish people.

Of course, Panetta's thinking is evidence that he has a thought disorder, is smoking dope, or is simply an Obama zombie. He said that everyone knows what the problem between the two countries are, but it's obvious that Panetta hasn't really a clue about what the problems are between Palestine and Israel: it's Islam, stupid. 

When are we, as a nation, going to "get it?" What will it take to prove to us, in the West, that Muslims detest Jews? When will we believe what they are saying in Muslim countries, like Iran, that Israel must be destroyed, Jews must be killed, and Islam must spread throughout the world? When will we, as a nation, understand that this threat to Israel is no less a threat to us? We're just deeper into the Islamic time schedule of jihad.

The worst thing you can call an Arab is "Jew." This anti-Semitism isn't a new hatred, it's an old, religious one, straight from their "holy book" the Koran, proclaimed to be the actual words of Allah. And this desert god has said in the Koran, that Jews were derived from pigs and apes. But don't think Christians are off the hook--they're the same as Jews, only less piggish or something.


So Panetta can expletive all he damn well wants, it isn't going to change how Islam sees Israel. It does not matter how many concessions Israel agrees to give them. It isn't concessions they want. What they want is an end to Israel. They meant it when they said it the last time, and a thousand times before that. They meant it when they said that Islam will rule the world and the name of Allah will be spoken by everyone. Those who refuse to speak the name of Allah will not be around to refuse. This is the Islamic concept of "peace."


Panetta is truly a danger to himself and others.

If you are interested in terrorism and suspense, I have provided 2 links (below) for a hard copy (soft cover) edition and an eBook edition of my latest novel, Jihad Joe.  It's a story about Zed Nill, a New York based reporter, taken hostage by Islamic terrorists.  He must escape, or be beheaded the following day . . . the clock is ticking.

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