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Telling voters to get over Democratic nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s email scandal, 78-year-old former Obama administration CIA Director and Defense Minister Leon Panetta asked voters to overlook Hillary’s brewing controversies. “Move on” Panetta told ABC’s “This Week” host Martha Raddatz on Sunday morning. “It’s been investigated, no action has been taken by the Justice Department,” Panetta told Raddatz. “They [FBI] found no basis for any kind of action,” referring to FBI Director James Comey’s July 5 announcement that he won’t pursue an indictment against the Democratic nominee. Comey actually said Hillary engaged in “extreme carelessness” when it came to sending-and-receiving classified information over her private email server. Panetta’s right that the emails are only the tip of the iceberg in Hillary’s corruption portfolio.

Parading Panetta on ABC News, the Hillary campaign hopes for vindication over growing corruption issues at the Clinton Foundation where some allege, like former U.S. Attorney and New York Mayor Rudi Giuliani, that Hillary and Bill engaged in racketeering and embezzlement of funds from a 501 (c) (3), IRS-tax-exempt non-profit organization. Giuliani and others allege that Hillary used her office as secretary of state as a pay-to-play scheme to divert foreign and corporate funds into the Clinton Foundation. When you consider Hillary’s strong backing of the Saudi proxy war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf State have paid the Clinton Foundation millions. Hillary has backed the Saudi proxy war against al-Assad, pitting the U.S. against Russian President Vladimir Putin and creating the worst humanitarian crisis since WWII.

Raddatz asked Panetta whether or not Hillary gave special favors to Clinton Foundation donors or whether it’s a part of some conspiracy. Panetta insisted he knew of no one at the State Department that gave any special favors to any Clinton Foundation donors. If anyone’s paying attention, how would Panetta know about any transactions that went down at the Clinton Foundation? Speaking out-of-his-hat, Panetta shows he’s become Hillary’s partisan hack. Calling the allegations just “politics,” Panetta showed hit true colors. Asked about Hillary’s campaign saying that any allegations were part of a “conspiracy,” Panetta dismissed the stories as Election Year politics. “The opposing party is always going to make attacks and you’ll make attacks on the other party, that’s part of the nature of the game,” said Panetta, blowing more smoke, blaming the mess on Election Year politics.

Less than three months before the election, Hillary’s campaign keeps the press vigilantly focused on what they call Trump’s campaign gaffes. Panetta went off on Trump for saying that Hillary and President Barack Obama were co-founders of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS], another inconsequential controversy. Panetta knows that Trump was making a point about the ISIS taking over 30% of Iraq and Syria on Obama’s watch. Showing he’s no different than any of Hillary’s political hacks, Panetta blasted Trump for making up outrageous lies. Hillary’s campaign finds anything-and-everything Trump says as a new gaffe, like when he asked why Democratic operative Khizr Khan’s wife, Ghazala, said nothing the night of the Democratic National Convention. From that, every cable, network and print outlet hyped Trump’s comments as insulting “Gold Star” military families.

Panetta knows nothing about the inner workings of the Clinton Foundation to comment one way or another. Commenting at all detracts from Panetta’s credibility, since he’s not in a position to comment about what goes on behind the scenes. What Panetta does know, as former CIA Director and Defense Secretary, is Hillary’s 100% backing of the Saudi proxy war to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “Instead of making an outrageous claim that somehow President Obama is the father of ISIS, which is a lie, he ought to present what strategy he would implement to defeat ISIS,” said Panetta, furthering the bogus media firestorm about Trump’s comments. When Trump joked recently about Russia recovering Hillary’s 30,000 scrubbed emails, Clinton operatives made a federal case against Trump, suggesting he colluded with a foreign government.

Panetta wants only to provide Hillary cover now that she’s facing increased scrutiny over wheeling-and-dealing at the Clinton Foundation. “Look, mistakes have been made in the war against terrorism going back to the 80s,” said Panetta. “If you’re Donald Trump you could label Ronald Reagan as the father of violent terrorism,” making zero sense. Reagan’s policy of swift-and-effective retribution against terrorists set the standard against global terrorists. When Reagan bombed Col Muammar Gadddafi April 15, 1986 for his April 5, 1986 attack of Berlin’s “La Belle” nightclub, it showed a new U.S. terrorism policy. Panetta knows that Trump’s comments about Barack and Hillary as co-founders of ISIS were metaphors, nothing more, nothing less. Defending Hillary without knowing the facts, Panetta revealed himself as a partisan hack, destroying what’s left of his credibility.