In an interview with Wolf Blitzer today, Panetta said in response to the question of how could the linton campaign and the DNC have made such payments: 

“Well, it’s obviously something that the Intelligence Committee is going to have to look at,” Panetta said. “You know, knowing presidential campaigns, they’re big operations and somehow the left hand may not know what the right hand is doing. And that could be the case here.”

Panetta is doing a couple of things. First, Wolf, by his question and Panetta by his answer are pretty much acknowledging it will be discovered that the Hillar Campaign and the DNC made payments. He is also laying the ground work for covering Hillary Clinton and Wasserman by suggesting that these sort of things can happen without those in charge knowing about it.