One of the principal qualities that you need as national security adviser is trust, the trust of the president. And that depends on truth and it depends on honesty. (Leon Panetta)

One of the principal qualities that you need as national security adviser is trust, the trust of the president. And that depends on truth and it depends on honesty.

Leon Panetta

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