Non sequitur. Beautiful! Nice job Jack.

I couldn't agree more. Worse yet, he was CIA Director too. The Peter Principle remains in full force.

Also worth remembering that Panetta was a Republican before that became unfashionable.

Wow, I had no idea Panneta is running the DOD now. Guess that was done quietly...yikes!

QUICK TAKES | news & newsmaking broken down, with added nutrients, US Government Experiments on Americans, By Russ Baker, Jun 2, 2011

‘Harsh as it may sound in retrospect, it was felt that in an issue where national survival might be concerned, such a procedure and such a risk was a reasonable one to take,’ ... Sidney Gottlieb testified ... In 1977, Senate hearings about CIA abuses ....

In a 1953 memo to a researcher, [CIA designer] Gottlieb gave an indication of the kinds of mind control issues he was interested in for both offensive and defensive purposes: ‘Disturbance of memory; discrediting by aberrant behaviour; alteration of sex patterns; eliciting of information; suggestibility; creation of dependence.’

Panetta is an impotent 'token' or puppet figurehead. He is told his marching orders for what he must say and where he inks a rubber stamp 'approval' on what the militaristic maniacs are going to do in total disregard of his 'management' or 'direction'.

All the alarm or sarcasm in the world, pointed at Panetta, accomplishes nothing. The only way to deal with him is through Obama, and there is no way to get to Obama.

(BTW, folks, I'm foreseeing in 'prophetic visions' as my lucid dreaming has been recently active, that the computer-made vote count next year has already been programmed to reelect Obama and nothing matters which he or any other 'candidate' does or doesn't do between now and then, it's all staged ... recall the past USA 'sarcasm' at USSR voters for having only one 'choice' and one 'party' on their ballots to 'vote' for. Now it is US, but far worse because computer programming (s)elects the course of US sociopolitics. Announcing the 2012 election result this far in advance does not spoil all of the suspense. There remains some uncertainty whether the corporate media 2012 revenues from selling campaign ads ends up over or under the $5-Billion mark. ... and, I suppose, there's further suspense how far into the campaign-cash season FOX media rides that gravy train before it derails, or in other words, how soon comes Murdockalypse. Ooooh, the suspense, friends and fellow citizens -- can we stand that much melodrama?)

So, Obama tells Panetta:
Obama Warns Of Norway Style Lone Wolf Shooting In American On Or Near Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 Terror Attacks, The Intel Hub, August 17, 2011

This is what everyone insisted (in hindsight) that Bush should have done a month in advance of Nine-Eleven Op, at the Aug.6 Presidential Briefing "bin Laden determined to strike in US". It wouldn't have changed anything 10 years ago if Bush had announced it, and it won't change anything this time that Obama does.

www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/17-7

Did Tenet Hide Key Info on 9/11? by Ray McGovern, Common Dreams .org, August 17, 2011

... the mainstream U.S. news media has shown little interest in stories that throw light on history — even recent, very relevant history. So it comes as no surprise that, when a former White House counter-terrorism czar accuses an ex-CIA director of sitting on information that could have prevented a 9/11 attack, the story gets neither ink nor air.

invisiblehistory.com/
- The History That You Were Never Told -

Sibel Edmonds boilingfrogspost Presents: 9/11, Psychological Warfare & the American Narrative: Part I A Campaign Where the Lie Became the Truth and the Truth Became the Enemy of the State By Elizabeth Gould & Paul Fitzgerald, August 11, 2011

Looking back on the carnage of the last ten years it’s easy to see how the psychology of 9/11 changed America. What’s not easy to see is how a long standing campaign of covert psychological warfare built up since the early days of World War II had made the slow destruction of American democracy and the ascension of rule by secrecy inevitable, long before the planes ever left the runway on 9/11: ...

www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/02/governments-from-around-world-admit.html

Governments From Around the World ADMIT That They Carry Out False Flag Terror, WashingtonsBlog .com, February 19, 2010

... * The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism.
* U.S. soldiers have admitted that if they kill innocent Iraqis and Afghanis, they then "drop" automatic weapons near their body so they can pretend they were militants.

You may ask yourself "why should I care?"

You should care because terrorism harms the economy.

In addition, you should care because terror causes governments to strip liberties and civil rights from the people:

"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector." - Plato

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
- U.S. President James Madison

"Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death".
- Adolph Hitler

"The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened".
- Josef Stalin

Indeed, the political causes you hold most dear will be derailed if false flag terror is carried out. To see that this is true, let's take ....

There might also be personal relief, Jack, if you reject the 'alarm' on you and put 'alarm' on the militarized maniacs.

Spread the news of Congressman Ron Paul's popularity and high poll ratings because he campaigns to repeal the Federal Reserve and abolish the Pentagon 'war'machine.
Beyond 'no more taxes' and 'cut spending', Paul goes on to cut the Fed.Income Tax by half, pay down the debt, increase funding for every Dept.of Gov't except abolish DoD.

No more taxes is nice, but what alarms 'them' is the overwhelming majority of Americans EXCITED in the prospect of being FREE of DoD/CIA/NSA/DHS/TSA/FBI/DEA/ICE (also ending computer-programmed ballots) and have jobs with a 50% tax reduction.