Mr Panetta's statement comes just over a week after a statement made in Islamabad by US special envoy Richard Holbrooke that the USintelligencecommunity did not know where the al-Qaeda leadership was hiding.
The head of the wider USintelligencecommunity apparently felt it would not be possible for Gen Petraeus to discipline CIA staff accused of marital indiscretions, if he had shown himself fallible in the same regard.
Ms Goldie said: "there is one local weapon available to us - communityintelligence" and as such there was a place for community representatives at the summit announced by the justice secretary during the debate.
And these were simply observations of this team based on the intelligence that the intelligencecommunity had given to us, and it was just in the course of their reading it, this was incidental to the purpose of this group.
Mr. ARKIN: Neal, the reality is that when we saw Mr. Gompert's letter today, who said this is not the intelligencecommunity I recognize, one of our sources quipped to us: well, isn't that the whole point of your series?