Panetta: Escalate Shadow Wars, Expand Black Ops

"Icing Osama bin Laden? Just the beginning, once Leon Panetta makes it to the Pentagon. At his Thursday confirmation hearing to become secretary of defense, CIA Director Panetta made a broad case for expanding the U.S.’ already extensive shadow wars. Now that bin Laden is dead, “we’ve got to keep the pressure up,” Panetta urged senators. Expect a lot of drone strikes and a lot of special ops raids — some conducted by future CIA Director David Petraeus. In a lot of places."