He's totally off-base to knee-jerk defend Bush's CIA...
There is no public confidence in the CIA and Panetta is making a fool of the Administration by asserting some exists.
He has no idea whether lies of omission were made in the September, 2002, briefing.Obama ought to have him shut up*. There is no public confidence in the CIA and Panetta is making a fool of the Administration by asserting some exists.
Update: *turns out that it was an e-mail that the media blew-up to "released a statement"! Anything for a he-said, she-said story. Anything! You know today's media standards and what is accepted from them...