- Born
- Birth nameLeon Edward Panetta
- Leon Panetta served as United States Secretary of Defense from 2011 to 2013 and as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2009 to 2011.
Prior to that, Panetta was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993, served as Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1993 to 1994, and served as former President Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997. Panetta is the cofounder and chairman of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy and currently serves as moderator of the Leon Panetta Lecture Series, a program he created. He previously served as Distinguished Scholar to Chancellor Charles B. Reed of the California State University System and professor of public policy at Santa Clara University.
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- Children
- U.S. Representative from California (1977-1993).
- Budget director (1993-1994) and Chief of Staff (1994-1996) under President Bill Clinton.
- CIA director (2009-2011).
- Secretary of Defense (2011-2013), under President Barack Obama.
- [Observation, November 2012] The threat from al-Qaida has not been eliminated. We have slowed the primary cancer, but we know that the cancer has metastasized to other parts of the global body.
- [a 2012 warning, as U.S. Secretary of Defense] This is the pre-911 moment. An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger planes, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals. They could contaminate the water supply in major cities, or shut down the power grids across large parts of the country.
- [on General John Kelly] This is a guy who is focused on the mission. You tell him to take the hill and he will take the hill. Then he'll tell you there's a smart way and a dumb way to do it.
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