For sure with Panetta maybe with Gates, not Clinton, they are worried. Panetta had a look of deer in the headlights with O’Reilly last night, he looks worried and fearful for our country and is saying as much as he can without causing panic.
I watched snippets of the O’Reilly interview with Panetta (the NL playoff game was on at the same time), but it seemed to me that Panetta was trying to avoid sound bites. He knew O’Reilly had read his book so couldn’t deny what he had written but was trying to state his criticisms in murkier language so they couldn’t be used as sound bites to attack Obama.