Leon Panetta

Events (41)

• Shortly After January 20, 2009: President Obama Devotes New Energy and Resources to Hunt for Bin Laden 2009-01-20
• February 4, 2009: CIA Nominee: US Stronger by Abiding by Law, Constitution 2009-02-04
• February 5, 2009: CIA Director Nominee: President Cannot Order Torture 2009-02-05
• February 5, 2009: CIA Director Nominee: No More ‘Extraordinary Renditions’ 2009-02-05
• February 6, 2009: Incoming CIA Director Says Officer Accused of Date Rape Should Be Fired 2009-02-06
• February 19, 2009: Leon Panetta Sworn in as New CIA Director 2009-02-19
• March 18, 2009 and After: Justice Department Argues for Release of Torture Memos; Current and Former CIA Officials Object 2009-03-18
• April 10, 2009: CIA Announces Closure of Secret Overseas Prisons 2009-04-10
• April 15, 2009: President Obama Chooses to Release Torture Memos; Advisers Deeply Divided 2009-04-15
• April 16, 2009: White House, CIA Director Promise No Prosecution of CIA Employees Who Followed Bush-Era Legal Guidelines 2009-04-16
• June 2, 2009: Obama Tells CIA to Make New Plan to Find Bin Laden 2009-06-02
• June 23, 2009: CIA Director Informed of Assassination and Capture Program, Immediately Cancels It 2009-06-23
• June 24, 2009: CIA Director Briefs Congress on Recently Canceled Kill and Capture Program 2009-06-24
• August 19-20, 2009: Media Learns of CIA Assassination Contract with Blackwater 2009-08-19
• August 24, 2009: CIA Releases Classified Reports Purporting to Prove that Torture is Effective 2009-08-24
• August 24, 2009: Obama Administration Releases 2004 CIA Report on Torture 2009-08-24
• Before August 24, 2009: ’Screaming Match’ Allegedly Precedes Release of 2004 CIA Report 2009-08-24
• September 18, 2009: Seven Former Directors Oppose Durham Probe of CIA Torture Allegations 2009-09-18
• June 27, 2010: CIA Director Panetta Says Bin Laden in Pakistan’s Tribal Region; No Good Intel on His Location in Many Years 2010-06-27
• June 27, 2010: CIA Director Panetta Says Only 50-100 Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan; Bin Laden Is in Pakistan’s Tribal Region 2010-06-27
• September 1, 2010: President Obama Is Informed about Bin Laden’s Compound in Abbottabad; US Allies Are Not 2010-09-01
• February 25, 2011: US Leaders Discuss Intelligence on Bin Laden’s Abbottabad Compound 2011-02-25
• April 11, 2011: Heads of CIA and ISI Meet to Cool Tensions between US and Pakistan 2011-04-11
• April 28, 2011: Plans to Raid Bin Laden’s Abbottabad Hideout near Completion; Obama Still Has Not Given Final Okay 2011-04-28
• May 2, 2011: Bin Laden Killed in Pakistan by US Special Forces 2011-05-02
• Shortly After August 2010-May 2, 2011: US Intelligence Apparently Sees Bin Laden Frequently Walking Outside, but Cannot Confirm His Identity 2011-05-02
• Shoftly After May 2, 2011: Bin Laden’s Death Reignites Debate over Usefulness of US Torture Techniques 2011-05-02
• (May 6, 2011): CIA Director Panetta Secretly Tells Congress Pakistani Government Either ‘Involved’ in Hiding Bin Laden or ‘Incompetent’ 2011-05-06
• December 31, 2011: Obama Signs Controversial Indefinite Detention Bill 2011-12-31
• January 13, 2012: Journalists and Activists Sue to Block Indefinite Detention Law 2012-01-13
• March 5, 2012 and After: Demand for Defense Department to Drop Limbaugh from Armed Forces Network Radio Grows 2012-03-05
• May 16, 2012: Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Indefinite Detention Law 2012-05-16
• May 25, 2012: Obama Administration Asks Judge to Reconsider Order Blocking Indefinite Detention 2012-05-25
• April 2009: CIA Fires Torture Program Designers
• 2004: CIA Program to Assassinate and Capture Al-Qaeda Leaders Terminated, then Revived and Outsourced to Blackwater
• August-September 2010: US Intelligence Increasingly Convinced Bin Laden Is at Abbottabad Compound in Pakistan
• Early December 2010: Some Congressional Leaders Briefed about Bin Laden Hideout Intel
• December 2010: CIA Director Panetta Briefs Obama on Bin Laden’s Hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan
• 2009: US Special Forces and CIA Increase Cooperation on Overseas Operations
• Autumn 2003: KSM Lies, Possibly While under Torture, to Protect Identity of Bin Laden’s Trusted Courier Ahmed
• Early 2002: CIA First Learns Alias of Trusted Bin Laden Courier Ahmed