Posted on 11/12/2012 4:48:03 PM PST by raptor22
Petraeus Scandal: An affair that was known to the FBI for months and kept from congressional oversight committees might explain his complicity in a false narrative of the Benghazi terrorist attack and the order to "stand down."
The addition of sex to Benghazigate adds a dimension sure to keep the scandal going and one that does indeed make Watergate seem like a third-rate burglary. The affair admitted to by Gen. David Petraeus, now our former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, might have attached blackmail or the potential for blackmail to a scandal we have already called a case of criminal negligence.
But blackmail by whom?
Petraeus isn't the first general to have an affair while in uniform. But as CIA director, Petraeus' knowledge of the nation's secrets was unparalleled, as was his knowledge of what happened and when regarding the assault on our consulate in Libya.
The timing of his resignation is most curious — just days after the presidential election and days before he was scheduled to testify before Congress, under oath, regarding the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell is expected to testify in his place. But lawmakers want to hear from Petraeus, and so do we.
As we've noted, just two days after the attack on our Benghazi consulate, representatives of the FBI and National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) gave Capitol Hill briefings in which they said the evidence supported an al-Qaida or al-Qaida-affiliated attack.
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Every article posted gives another nugget of fact. Gather,analyze and the truth will be known.
As an example, Jill Kelley (nee: Kwahan) has a sister in nasty divorce, husband is attorney in DC. Has worked with mideast issues.
Jill Kelley and husband are having money problems due to real estate issues.
Sisters were born in Lebanon.
Obama appears to be de-stabilizing Mid East.
Conclusions can not be drawn from above but with some research this house of cards will probably fall apart.
This started with 4 dead Americans in Banghazi- now is morphing into something this administration does not want to see light of day.
There is intrigue,blackmail, power struggles and people resigning.
When Hillary jumps ship- one has to wonder. Never have I ever seen a more power hungry bitch, so if she is jumping ship- I wonder what is going on background
Look, let's get something straight right now ..... call it the Andrew Sullivan corollary to the Doris Kearns Goodwin Rule on Plagiarism:
It's never plagiarism, if the person(s) you lifted the passage from is (are) conservative scum.
That's always a "free one".
The New York Times, of course, you must cite and quote, after paying for the article.
He's the same dolt that picked Biden.
Not dolt -- power junkie. A certain kind of politician always wants flawed or compromised men working for him, because the flaw or compromise makes that man totally subject to his will. Men like that will perjure themselves before Congress to the benefit of the principal, to keep their secrets.
You are 100% correct. After the Iran-Contra scandal, it has been frowned upon by congress to nominate a career military person to head either the CIA or national security posts. ObaMao, who has nothing but contempt for "corpse-men" and he only appoints people who are part of the Chicago mob or tied to CPUSA. Why Petraus? Skeletons.
In the foreground. Obama put her in the cabinet and then ran her all over the world, working her to a frazzle a) in hopes she'd die of the stress like Holbrook did and b) to keep her away from domestic politics and any sort of insurrection of non-Communist Democrats against Barky's initiatives.
His initiatives overseas have redounded 90% to the manifest injury of the American People, so by making Beastwoman his b*tch for foreign policy, Obama made her complicit in his anti-Americanism.
Now she's got his stink all over him and he's got his second term -- and after being thoroughly identified with Obama's destruction of our foreign policy and alliances, good luck with 2016, sweetie.
(Obama probably has a shadow nominee for 2016 in mind -- or his politburo does. You never really thought these guys would be four-and-out or eight-and-out, did you?)
Yes, I do.
Was David Petraeus allow his small brain to be Blackmailed By His Own Government?
We will know soon whether he is really an America lover and patriot or will take the fifth when subpenaed and accept the job offer at Princeton.
I think you are right, that the man was and is a human torpedo from birth, hothoused since childhood and advanced in America's open society by a host of underworld connections and influences.
Wonder how many brats of KGB "illegals" are running around the country pretending to be eminent citizens, while taking orders from Putin, the Chinese, or God knows who?
And Petraus was a Presidential contender for 2016, he has been quoted as being interested. Keep your enemies close.
From the minute my wife informed me that Petraeus had resigned I knew he
“ wasn’t going to take it anymore” I’ve been puzzled from the beginning on how this Obama/Petraeus marriage ever came about. The only explanation on Obama’s side is he knew about the affair and in typical Obama/Axelrod/Jarrett strategy sought to neutralize and destroy a potential political opponent. As for Petraeus, I believe he thought this would be a golden opportunity to “get the goods” on Obama. Fate stepped in, BenGhazi happened. Petraeus had the blackmail card pulled on him to support Obama’s YouTube fantasy. This was against everything he believed in, Duty, Honor Country. So, he resigned. Can’t wait for “the rest of the story”
You wrote: “You’re smokin’ crack ... that’s friggin’ Paul Begalla in drag!”
LOL! I was thinking to myself over the past week: What hell is wrong with her head.
Voila! She is the “Forehead-ette!”
“Voila! She is the “Forehead-ette!””
Yup, to quote an old punchline: “She has a forehead like the Allegheny Plateau!”
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