But Republicans have criticized Mr. Panetta's decision to cancel the program, saying he created a tempest in a teapot.
Some readers, like Noreen O'Shea Victor of Baltimore, thought The Times was creating "a tempest in a teapot" without evidence that Blumenthal was systematically trying to misrepresent his record.
With filmmakers creating a tempest over the undisclosed use of re-enactments in this year's Oscar-winning documentary short, "Mighty Times: The Children's March," the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has initiated a review of its eligibility rules for documentaries.
He responds to almost all of the inputs he gets (from tweets to blog comments) and created a tempest in a teapot last week by declaring that he plans to "triple down" on content – "because doubling down doesn't begin to describe how important he thinks it is," according to Forbes.
Just last month, Ms. Davis, famous for her rangy frame, pillowy lips and piano keyboard smile, created a tempest by turning up at the Emmy Awards in a Pamela Dennis dress so sheer she might just as well have worn nothing at all.
This has created a tempest in America over the the past week or two.
The bridge created a tempest of protests because the span linked Ketchikan to sparsely populated Gravina Island, hardly in need of the bridge.
Mr. Bernanke said Lehman's default, "while perhaps manageable in itself," combined with the "unexpectedly rapid collapse of A.I.G". to create a global financial tempest.
If they had lost it would have created a storm in archery that would have made the day's tempest seem like a soft shower of summer rain.
