Leon Panetta, other former Obama subordinates show stunning disloyalty

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49. Yes--once you decide to go along with something, and agree to promote and defend it

in public, in testimony, in speeches, as both she and Panetta have done at various times--why should you have any credibility later when you come back and say, "Well, I thought we should have done THIS and not done THAT"? It doesn't matter anymore what you thought, you agreed to follow the policy rather than fight harder to get your way, come up with a better argument that would change the President's mind, or quit. So shut up now. It's complete self-serving opportunism to come back later and say, "If everyone had just listened to me, everything would be better." Everybody is going to have minor policy disagreements, minor disagreements on how best to tackle a problem or respond to a crisis. But Panetta and Clinton have taken disloyalty to new levels--Panetta is personally bashing Obama's leadership every day on TV now. Even Bob Gates didn't do that. Just appalling.