Panetta orders Pentagon investigation of legal, ethical issues among military leaders

Washington Post ^ | November 15, 2012 | Craig Whitlock

[Seizethecarp]

BANGKOK — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has ordered the Pentagon to find out why so many generals and admirals have become embroiled in legal and ethical problems, a trend exacerbated by recent investigations of two of the military’s best-known commanders.

The Pentagon disclosed Panetta’s directive on Thursday after he arrived in Thailand as part of a visit to Asia. But aides insisted that he had been considering the review for some time and that it was not prompted by revelations that the FBI has been investigating former CIA director David H. Petraeus, a retired Army general, and Marine Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

The deputy commander of the storied 82nd Airborne Division was relieved in May in Afghanistan and is now facing criminal charges that he sexually assaulted or engaged in adultery with five women. Last month, the commander of an aircraft carrier strike group in the Persian Gulf was relieved for “inappropriate leadership judgment” and is under investigation by the Navy’s inspector general.

On Tuesday, Panetta demoted the former four-star commander of the military’s Africa Command and ordered him to repay $82,000 for taking lavish or unauthorized trips with his wife.

[blueunicorn6]

OK, let’s start with “Frequent Flyer Leon”. Did he ever associate with organizations that advocated the overthrow of our constitution and government?

[blueunicorn6]

Is it ethical for Panetta to leave his family in California so that he can take weekends off DURING A WAR to run away from his responsibilities as Secretary of Defense?

[Bigg Red]

Exactly! The purge is in full swing.

[Bigg Red]

Did he ever associate with organizations that advocated the overthrow of our constitution and government?

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Yes, and that is why he was advanced. You must try very hard to understand the new system, comrade.

[Rapscallion]

Now comes the inquisition and purge. Just like Saddam did.

[sassy steel magnolia]

don’t put it past the dems...

[First_Salute]

Situational Ethicist, Leon Panetta, wonders why subordinates are becoming situational ethicists.

Seller of random compartmentalized integrity, Leon Panetta, wonders why he does not find internal and external structural integrity in his subordinates.

Laws that are not supposed to apply to what and whom Leon Panetta has favored/favors over his “storied political career,” are still supposed to apply to everybody else.

[piasa]

OK, let’s start with “Frequent Flyer Leon”. Did he ever associate with organizations that advocated the overthrow of our constitution and government?

"In April 1985 Panetta joined with 13 of his leftist congressional colleagues — including Ron Dellums, Don Edwards, George Miller, Christopher Dodd, and Les Aspin — in sponsoring a 20th anniversary fund-raising gala for the pro-Marxist Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which had been described by Brian Crozier, director of the London Institute for the Study of Conflict, as the "perfect intellectual front for Soviet activities which would be resisted if they were to originate openly from the KGB." The IPS was originally funded with millions of dollars from the Faberge perfume magnate and Communist Party member Samuel Rubin and his wife." -------- http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/655

[piasa]

During a March 1997 edition of CNBC’s Equal Time program, California Republican State Senator Dick Mountjoy noted that COSCO-linked arms dealer Wang Jun had been granted personal access to President Clinton, and that Wang’s business associates had smuggled illegal assault weapons into California for delivery to street gangs by making use of a ship owned and operated by COSCO.
Mountjoy then stated:
The next thing you know, (then-Chief of Staff) Leon Panetta is down here negotiating that port for the Chinese. ———http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/655

[piasa]

FBI seizes data of retired general related to Qatar lobbying effort
Just the News ^ | 6/8/22 | Sophie Mann
Posted on 6/8/2022, 7:16:24 PM by markomalley

Retired four-star Marine Gen. John Allen, is on administrative leave from his role as president of the Brookings Institute D.C. think tank after the FBI seized his electronic data on suspicion of lying to investigators and withholding evidence about his role in secretly lobbying for the government of Qatar.