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Obama’s deceptive bodyguard

[DailyCaller.com]

Published: 4:32 PM 05/01/2012

By Neil Munro – The Daily Caller

Photo: AP -White House spokesman Jay Carney said Friday that he doesn’t lie.

But his office did lie on Monday for national security reasons.

On Monday evening the White House’s press office distributed a fake Tuesday schedule for the president. The deceptive document went to the White House press corps, and to the many other media outlets and non-media groups that track the president’s schedule.

“In the afternoon, the President and the Vice President will meet with Secretary of Defense [Leon] Panetta in the Oval Office,” said the 6:31 p.m. email, titled “Daily Guidance and press schedule for Tuesday, May 1, 2012.” The guidance also announced that Jay Carney, the president’s press secretary, would give a press briefing at 3 p.m.

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Panetta Says Drone Campaign Over Iran Will Continue

[FoxNews.com]

By Justin Fishel & Jennifer Griffin

Published December 13, 2011

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, in an exclusive interview with Fox News, said that the stealth drone campaign along the Iran-Afghanistan border will “absolutely” continue despite the loss of a valuable and sophisticated drone to Iran.

The mysterious loss of the RQ-170 Sentinel drone has revealed not only that the U.S. was spying on Iran, but also that the program was being run from Shindad Air Base in western Afghanistan.

Panetta would not comment directly on what that drone was doing over Iran, but he said the U.S. military has no plans to halt the drone operation out of western Afghanistan.

“Those operations have to be protected in order to do the job and the mission that they’re involved with,” he said.

When asked if he would continue those missions as they have been conducted out of Afghanistan, he responded with one word: “Absolutely.”

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