Defense Secretary Leon Panetta argued today that a congressional supercommittee charged with proposing major deficit-reduction measures later this year should not recommend any cuts to the Defense Department's long-term budget. "We're already taking our share of the discretionary cuts as part of this debt-ceiling agreement, and those are going to be tough enough," Panetta told reporters in his first press conference at the Pentagon. "But I think anything beyond that would damage our national defense." A senior defense official said...
