Fatal Distraction: Focus On Benghazi, Not Broadwell

IBD EDITORIALS ^ | November 13, 2912

[raptor22]

Petraeus Scandal: Four Americans have been killed under still-unexplained circumstances, yet the obsession is with a general's mistress and not with the truth of why these men were left to die in Libya.

How ironic that the FBI agents who descended on the home of Paula Broadwell to gather information on the mistress of now-former CIA Director David Petraeus probably did a better job than the FBI agents who gave a cursory look at our burned-out consulate in Benghazi, leaving behind classified documents strewn on the floor and even our ambassador's diary to be picked up by CNN.

A press that ignored the administration's incompetence and swallowed its lies whole now salivates over every episode of what some have dubbed "The Real Housewives of West Point." Protect the president, but slime the military as a commune of lechers.

Senate Intelligence Committee head Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is insisting that her committee hear directly from Petraeus about his October trip to Libya to personally inquire about the Sept. 11 terror attack on the Benghazi consulate. The general reportedly will cooperate.

What did the nation's chief spy find out? What's in his report? Did it have anything to do with the curious timing of his "resignation," just after the election and just before he was to testify to Congress? Will it blow the administration's narrative out of the water?

Who gave the order for forces to "stand down" and not go to the rescue of the consulate compound or the safe house? A week before Petraeus' resignation, the CIA issued a flat denial that any order to stand down ever came from anyone in the agency. Why wasn't a rescue attempt mounted when AC-130 gunships and Apache attack helicopters could have arrived in time?

[Jet Jaguar]

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[The Mayor]

We want the truth!

[Ann Archy]

First question.....WHY was Amb. STevens IN BENGHAZI on 9/11?????? ANd WHY did he meet with a Turkish official??? WHY did Sean SMith think they would be killed that night???? WHY didn;t OUR MILITARY COME TO THEIR RESCUE???

Second question...:)....WHO and WHERE are the 20-30 people that GOT rescued that night by the two SEALS???WHERE ARE THEIR TESTIMONIES????

After these questions are answered, everything else will fall into place.

[no-to-illegals]

no doubt there is information zer0 knows. Would put zer0 on equal footing as those who have been water-boarded. Will have to do these things delicately, to quote the wicked witch. Those who pursue will be labeled as wicked witches.

This story is being followed world wide, in our allies and enemies camps. Going to be a situation where probably this will be the Constitutional Crisis of a proportion never seen or witnessed. Buckle Up!