Leon Panetta
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Leon Edward Panetta is an American retired politician and government official who served under several Democratic administrations as Secretary of Defense, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency,
Official portrait, 2011
1977 congressional portrait of Panetta
Panetta with President Bill Clinton and Anthony Lake in October 1994
President Barack Obama speaks to CIA employees at CIA Headquarters in Langley, April 20, 2009.
Robert Gates
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Robert Michael Gates is an American intelligence analyst who served as the 22nd United States secretary of defense from 2006 to 2011 and as the 15th director of central intelligence from 1991 to 1993
Leon Panetta
…the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. On April 28, 2011, Obama announced the nomination of Panetta as defense secretary to replace the retiring Robert Gates. In June, the Senate confirmed Panetta unanimously and he assumed the office on July 1, 2011. David Petraeus became CIA director on September 6, 2011…
Official portrait, 2006
Gates while Director of Central Intelligence
President George H. W. Bush meets with Robert Gates, General Colin Powell, Secretary Dick Cheney and others about the situation in the Persian Gulf and Operation Desert Shield, January 15, 1991.
Gates at Texas A&M University