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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
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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
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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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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden order take-out lunch at Taylor Gourmet on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington, D.C. on October 4, 2013. The reason he gave was they are starving and the establishment is giving a 10 percent discount to furloughed government workers as an indication of how ordinary Americans are looking out for one another. UPI/Pete Marovich/Pool