[Mr Ramsbotham]

Assuming he’s now free of the blackmail scenario, don’t be surprised if he attempts to salvage his soiled honor by going before Congress and spilling his guts. That is, if he lives long enough.

[mware]

I think he will be compelled to testify.

I also think he will lawyer up, and take the 5th.

If they ask him one question and he answers it, he will be compelled to answer all the questions put before him.

[Sacajaweau]

Please remember that he was under the command of the President aka the CIC. There was no choice unless you want to see him in a prison for the rest of his life.

I do indeed think he got set up in the long run....but I do believe he will be truthful in the end.

I believe the statement that no one in the CIA gave the "Stand Down" command came directly from him, was the truth and it also infers that there WAS a Stand Down command.

Obama is nothing more than a Chicago thug.

[Vaduz]

Obama’s Benghazi Bungle smells big time to many dirty dealing going on in D.C. and the MSM is in black out mode.
Going to be more people than Petraeus going down.
Wonder what deals go on in D.C. when Obama is out of the country?

[petitfour]

There was more than one thing going on in Benghazi. You had the CIA trying to recapture weapons from terrorists who hate America. And then you had the deal made by some unk own entity to allow the ambassador to be kidnapped in order to exchange him with someone else possibly the blind sheik. The Americans at the annex were unaware of the kidnapping scenario because that is the kind of thing that would only be known to the most trustworthy of trustworthy. So only a few people in the White House. Petraeus was not in that loop. Petraeus was not in the loop on the video nonsense either. Because it was a fabricated story by whomever in the White House was running the kidnapping show. Soooo, the attack on the mission began. The mission puts out a call for help. We know the rest of the story.

Just a theory.

[loveliberty2]

History will record whether he now chooses "honor" over fear of reprisal from the Administration he served at the end of his career.

Hopefully, if he testifies, he will do so with an acute awareness of duty, honor, history and eternity as his guides.

[greeneyes]

Well, none of us knows for sure why the CIA was there, and what the real mission was. We know the “cover” story was that they were trying to get weapons out of the hands of militants.

There is some speculation that they were also “walking” ala fast and furious guns to Syria. But we don’t know do we. CIA is always doing secretive stuff, where it is considered patriotic to keep it under cover.

Romney stayed off Benghazi. Is it possible that he felt it would be too harmful for the truth to come out?

I am just thinking way back to Eisenhower, and the U-2 pilot Gary Francis Powers. Are there times when discretion seems to be the better part of valor?

Even when we think we have the truth, who knows what we’ll find out 50 years later? To this day, I am not sure we even know the whole truth about Iran/Contra.

[annieokie]

then we have to entertain the possibility that David Petraeus is resigning because doing what he did in his testimony to Congress is distasteful in a fashion that a man of his mettle cannot long bear.""""......

I will hold to that belief myself. He has long served his country honorably. What he did is going to haunt him, as he knows the administration did a very traitorous, cowardly and dereliction of duty in regard to Benghazi.

Are there any Military Brass that can stomach what happened in Benghazi? Are there such beings?

The other affair, well not of National concern, unless there was some pillow talk.

I do believe his Grief on Benghazi will lead him to do the right thing and redeem his honor. JMO

[blueunicorn6]

OK people, let’s play THE BIG GAME! If the American people find out the real truth about Benghazi (and it’s still not out), how would that affect the election? Doesn’t really matter because we’re working off of what the Democrats were afraid would happen. So, they are afraid the truth about Benghazi will cost them the Presidency. Would they also worry that would cost them the Senate? Yep. They were afraid they’d lose the Presidency AND the Senate if the truth about Benghazi came out before the election. Did Obama know that Petraeus was in a bind? Yep. Did Petraeus know that Obama had something to blackmail him with? Yep. Would Petraeus lie to keep Obama from ruining him? In a second. Does this explain why Petraeus would lie to Congress? Yep.

[Travis McGee]

That is my hope today, that Petreaus spills his guts to regain his honor.

He might already be spending his days with Bob Woodward. The ex-general likes working with writers; it’s his M.O.

Or he could go John Dean Cubed in front of a hearing.

(He’d better stay out of Fort Marcy Park, and skip the canoe trip.)

[BlessingsofLiberty]

Perhaps Paula Broadwell should write another book; and, since she teaches classes at West Point, use it as a basis for a class.

The book should include, among other ethic based subjects for officers, why having an extra-marital affair can blow up your career in short order.

Broadwell now has first hand experience as to why sleeping your way up the chain of command can be fast reward and an abrupt end to a lot of hard work and talent.

Petreaus was a fool. Seems the guy has had too much time on hands over the years. Instead of surrounding himself with adoring fanboys and fangirls, he should have lead by example and not so much ego like most of the political types in the upper command.

Now people are going to say, well it has always been that way; yeah, and it hasn’t always worked out too well either.

I wonder if Broadwell still has that job at West Point?

[justa-hairyape]

The weapons smuggling to terrorist angle also needs to be investigated. We need to know exactly what weapons were given to the terrorists. Obviously man pads would be bad, but Libya also had a significant stockpile of chemical weapons.

[no-to-illegals]

To answer the posted thread, can only remember something heard long ago. God and Generals.