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President Obama Visits CIA Headquarters
United States President Barack Obama is escorted by CIA Director Leon Panetta (R) after addressing CIA employees at the George Bush Center for Intelligence (CIA Headquarters) in McLean, Virginia on Monday, April 20, 2009. (UPI Photo/Ron Sachs/Pool)

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We have to protect our core national security interests, we've got to be able to provide the best military in the world and we cannot break faith with the troops and their families
U.S. military concerned over cost cutting
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We're already taking our share of the discretionary cuts as part of this debt-ceiling agreement and those are going to be tough enough
Panetta: Cuts could damage U.S. defense
United Press International
You cannot deal with the size deficits that this country is confronting by simply cutting the discretionary side of the budget
Panetta: Cuts could damage U.S. defense
United Press International
We expected a greater offensive this year than took place
Panetta: Taliban weakened in Afghanistan
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We cannot allow that effort to go so far and cut so deep that it jeopardizes our ability to deal with the other very real and very serious threats we face around the world
Panetta: Cuts could damage U.S. defense
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Palestinian Security Forces Patrol the Border With Egypt.
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A members of the Hamas security forces patrol the border area between Gaza and Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 20, 2013. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, As Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone. Palestinian security forces patrol around the border, witnesses said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad