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Lt. Col. Ralph Peters On Petraeus: "Timing Is Just Too Perfect" (Video)
Real Clear Politics ^ | 11/9/12 | Lt. Col. Ralph Peters

Posted on 11/09/2012 7:34:43 PM PST by Brandonmark

LT. COL. RALPH PETERS: The timing is just too perfect for the Obama administration. Just as the administration claimed it was purely coincidence that our Benghazi consulate was attacked on the anniversary of September 11th. Now it’s purely coincidence that this affair -- extra-marital affair -- surfaces right after the election, not before, but right after, but before the intelligence chiefs go to Capitol Hill to get grilled. As an old intelligence analyst, Neil, the way I read this -- I could be totally wrong, this is my interpretation -- is that the administration was unhappy with Petraeus not playing ball 100% on their party-line story. I think it's getting cold feet about testifying under oath on their party-line story. And I suspect that these tough Chicago guys knew about this affair for a while, held it in their back pocket until they needed to play the card.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; cia; navyseals; petraeus; threatmatrix; threatmatrixbenghazi
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1 posted on 11/09/2012 7:34:51 PM PST by Brandonmark
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To: Brandonmark

I think that is exactly right! TOO perfect timing. Something smells!


2 posted on 11/09/2012 7:39:00 PM PST by pollywog ("O Thou who changest not, abide with me.".......)
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To: Brandonmark

The fix has been in for a loooong time. We’re all a bunch of schmucks standing on the sidelines while the players play their games.. The question really is... who coaches these players?


3 posted on 11/09/2012 7:42:01 PM PST by Third Person (I'm in my prime.)
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To: pollywog

He could lose his pension if he tells.


4 posted on 11/09/2012 7:44:10 PM PST by Bronzy
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To: Brandonmark
Ralph Peters is most always right and I believe he's dead on the mark with this.
5 posted on 11/09/2012 7:45:33 PM PST by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: Brandonmark

Try Occam’s Razor. The most obvious answer is the correct one.


6 posted on 11/09/2012 7:46:33 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: Brandonmark

Of course it’s all BS. What do you expect? They’re all POLITICIANS!!! Even Petraeus...you don’t get four stars without being a POLITICIAN!!


7 posted on 11/09/2012 7:47:28 PM PST by Roccus (.POLITICIAN...........a four letter word spelled with ten letters.)
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To: Bronzy

So much for honor.


8 posted on 11/09/2012 7:50:30 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: Brandonmark
For the record a citizen can be subpoenaed to present himself before a congressional investigating panel
... BUT ... if they pretend that's irregular and beyond the pale of their powers ... you will know the fix [like the election] was in; Contact your congress critter ... ASAP
9 posted on 11/09/2012 7:51:19 PM PST by alphadog (2nd Bn. 3rd Marines, Vietnam, class of 68)
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To: Brandonmark

I’ve come to the conclusion that we just get lied to by people who are trying to cover their butts.


10 posted on 11/09/2012 7:51:27 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: Brandonmark

They had to know about it before he became director. And if you watch the video of this Broadwell “slut” when she was on with John Stewart’s show, it is clear as a bell that she had an affair with him.

He is despicable for putting himself into such a position.

When did she attend West Point? When did she leave the military?


11 posted on 11/09/2012 7:51:50 PM PST by petitfour
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To: Brandonmark

The more I think about this, the less confident I am what’s going to happen.

Petraeus seemed to do a pretty good job under Bush. Then, later, he agreed to serve under Obama, and started to do a really lousy job in Afghanistan. He consented to killing Rules of Engagement, which pretty much tied both hands behind our troops’ backs, and resulted in a failure to accomplish anything more, a rise in the death rate beyond anything seen earlier, and a growing sense among the terrorists that we didn’t really want to win.

Then Obama chose him to head the CIA, and it really looked as if he had turned into an Obama tool. And, if there was some kind of CIA operation to run guns from Libya to the terrorists in Syria and elsewhere, then presumably Petraeus went along with it, as an insider.

Was he being blackmailed? Well, here we see a possible instrument of blackmail. But you don’t use such an instrument unless you have to. Better to have the blackmail victim under your thumb and doing what you demand.

Is this resignation part of a plan to stop Petraeus from testifying about Benghazigate? Or is it his refusal to go along any further with this corrupt business, which forced Obama to fire him? Or did he decide to confess his sins openly and resign, so he could fight back?

I really have no idea. I guess we just need to see what happens next.


12 posted on 11/09/2012 7:52:31 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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The commie dirtbags game the system mockingly in front of our eyes.


13 posted on 11/09/2012 7:55:21 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Cicero
I think it's the other way around. My suspicion was that the Obama administration was using the affair to keep Petraeus quiet -- and Petraeus outed himself and resigned just to take all that leverage away from them.

The Obama administration cannot prevent Petraeus from testifying to Congress. He won't be testifying now because he's no longer the CIA director and he was originally called to testify in that role, but nothing prevents Congress from calling him to testify as a civilian about what he knows.

14 posted on 11/09/2012 7:56:01 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: tennmountainman
Just the talk out here.
15 posted on 11/09/2012 7:57:42 PM PST by Bronzy
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To: Bronzy

His pension is peanuts to him at this point. If he has the good on Obama, his book will be a gold mine.


16 posted on 11/09/2012 7:58:32 PM PST by Toespi
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To: Brandonmark
Aside from Benghazi I strongly suspect he didn't begin his affair on Tuesday and end it on Thursday.

Pure corruption at the highest levels.

17 posted on 11/09/2012 7:58:40 PM PST by Manic_Episode (Some days...it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps....)
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To: Cicero

>> I really have no idea.

There’s really no way to know without having access to the inevitably unavailable information.

The Left seems to enjoy flaunting its influence, however.


18 posted on 11/09/2012 7:58:51 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Cicero
P.S. I wouldn't trust the guy anyway, and I never liked him. Any career military officer who goes on to a civilian role in appointed positions in an administration strikes me as a complete hack and a life-long government employee whose #1 priority is living at the expense of the U.S. taxpayers.

The last guy who followed this career path from high-profile general to Beltway hack was Colin Powell. I rest my case.

19 posted on 11/09/2012 7:59:10 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: Toespi

I’m sure he has a good lobbying gig lined up.


20 posted on 11/09/2012 8:00:34 PM PST by dfwgator
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