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To: SE Mom; Protect the Bill of Rights; penelopesire; hoosiermama; onyx; LucyT

Here is an excerpt of the Broadwell transcript of her speech on 10/26... AFTER her interview with the FBI, which according to the NYT was the week of 10/21. Was she sending a message?

Paula Broadwell University of Denver Remarks on Libya’s Attack [TRANSCRIPT]:

Audience Member: Thanks for taking my question.General Petraeus in his new role has a difficult situation now in the center of the situation in Benghazi. Do you have any comment?

Broadwell: Well just to create some context for those in the room. As you know the Ambassador in Benghazi was killed along with a couple of security agents who happened to be CIA security paramilitary forces, that just came out today in Fox News. But the challenge has been the fog of war. And the greater challenge is that it is political hunting season. So this whole thing has been turning into a very political sort of arena if you will.

But the facts that came out today were that the ground forces there at the CIA annex, which is different from the consulate, were requesting reinforcements. They were requesting the it’s called the C-in-C’s In Extremis Force, a group of Delta Force operators, our very, most talented guys we have in the military. They could have come and reinforce the consulate and the CIA annex that were under attack.

Now, I don’t know if a lot of you heard this, but the CIA annex had actually, um, had taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner and they think that the attack on the consulate was an effort to try to get these prisoners back. So that’s still being vetted. The challenging thing for General Petraeus is that in his new position, he’s not allowed to communicate with the press. So he’s known all of this. Thye had correspondance with the CIA station chief in Libya within 24 hours they kind of knew what was happening. But if you remember at the time, the Muslim video, the Mohammad video that came out, the demonstrations that were going on in Cairo, there were demonstrations in 22 other countries around the world, tens of thousands of people and our government was kind of concert that this would become a nightmare for us.

So you can understand if you put yourself on his shoes, or Secretary Clinton’s shoes or the President’s shoes that we thought it was tied somehow to the demonstrations in Cairo. And it’s true that we have similar intelligence that shows the militia members in Libya were watching the demonstrations in Cairo and it did sort of galvanize their effort. So we’ll find out the facts soon enough as a former intel officer is frustrating to me because it reveals our sources and methods. I don’t think the public necessarily needs to know all of that. It is a tragedy that we lost and Ambassador and two other Government officials and something, there was a failure in the system because there was additional security requested. But is frustrating to see the sort of political aspect of what’s going on with this whole investigation.


13 posted on 11/13/2012 6:01:29 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

The last paragraph tells me about the mindset of Broadwell. She seems to be trying to cover for O, Clinton, Susan Rice and P4 all at once.

Very disturbing as I was beginning to think Broadwell (aside from her personal moral failings) might be one of the good guys.


21 posted on 11/13/2012 6:17:54 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: maggief

So, did that Broadwell woman vote for Zer0 or not?


22 posted on 11/13/2012 6:19:55 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: maggief
"The challenging thing for General Petraeus is that in his new position, he’s not allowed to communicate with the press. So he’s known all of this."

...interesting

24 posted on 11/13/2012 6:28:57 AM PST by lucyblue
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To: maggief
AFTER her interview with the FBI, which according to the NYT was the week of 10/21. Was she sending a message?

She just might turn out to be the real Patriot in this saga.

26 posted on 11/13/2012 6:32:17 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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