Reply #4: I actually know Leon Panetta, and he wouldn't honor Rove.

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Being invited to speak there is not a question of being 'given credibility'; he's a critical figure to some of the most important (reprehensible they are) political decisions and thought in the past 25 years or so.

Best to have him out in the open where such things can be confronted and dismantled, rather than out of the public eye and festering.