The source of threat

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the nation’s most pressing security threat is coming from the capital itself.

“It’s the — the total dysfunction in Washington, the fact that so little can be done by the Congress,” he said in an interview aired Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “They can’t even resolve the issue of homeland security. They can’t deal with budgets. They can’t deal with immigration reform. They can’t deal with infrastructure. They can’t deal with other issues.”

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And Democrats and Republicans alike have criticized President Barack Obama’s proposal to authorize the use of military force against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, saying it goes too far or does not go far enough.

Leon Panetta blasts ‘total dysfunction in Washington’