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Report: Petraeus Clashed With Agency Heads in Final Days
Commentary/WSJ ^ | 11/15/2012 | Alana Goodman

Posted on 11/15/2012 11:22:04 AM PST by mojito

....In David Petraeus’s final days at the helm of the Central Intelligence Agency, his relations with chiefs of other U.S. agencies, including his boss, National Intelligence Director James Clapper, took a contentious turn.

Mr. Petraeus wanted his aides to push back hard and release their own timeline of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi and a nearby CIA safe house, seeking to set the record straight and paint the CIA’s role in a more favorable light. Mr. Clapper and agencies including the Pentagon objected, but Mr. Petraeus told his aides to proceed, said the senior officials.

By all accounts, the driving force behind Mr. Petraeus’s departure last Friday was the revelation about his extramarital affair with his biographer. But new details about Mr. Petraeus’s last days at the CIA show the extent to which the Benghazi attacks created a climate of interagency finger-pointing. That undercut the retired four-star general’s backing within the Obama administration as he struggled with the decision to resign....

(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; cia; clapper; jamesclapper; obama; petraeus
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Sounds like the General got tired of being blackmailed by the WH and Clapper.

This also sheds some light on stories surfacing today that the interim CIA Director will testify that there were no requests for military backup from Benghazi.

1 posted on 11/15/2012 11:22:13 AM PST by mojito
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“...the interim CIA Director will testify that there were no requests for military backup from Benghazi.”

Isn’t this in direct contradiction to what the people on the ground in Benghazi said? They said they asked three times and were denied and told to stand down. The news reports were very clear about this and presumably those sources are still out there.


2 posted on 11/15/2012 11:26:34 AM PST by Castigar
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To: mojito

Impeach 0bama for doing a HIT on Petraeus for challenging their DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN to sway public opinion to save 0bama’s re-election.


3 posted on 11/15/2012 11:27:38 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: mojito

just heard one of the fathers on FOX and Megyn kelly just said she has ot let him go because they can;t hear him, well I could .

WTH is going on wiht the GOP, RNC, the media nd FOX..

We live in such a corrupt country and is it any wonder why our side does not speak out for this election, why they fought Sarah, Newt and now Col Allen West.

Kelly just said that they have breaking news and now ADs come on instead.

we the people, not we the Govt and media and the elitist.

We want answers to many issues, and yet we get an adoring media who either ignores the rigged election to fast and furious to this and yet we have idiots saying congrats obama, I;ve seen all your election you have won .

Then she laughs like a little girl going on her first date.

is anyone else pissed off right now with many in talk radio, our side and the media


4 posted on 11/15/2012 11:28:25 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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just heard one of the fathers on FOX and Megyn kelly just said she has ot let him go because they can;t hear him, well I could .

WTH is going on wiht the GOP, RNC, the media nd FOX..

We live in such a corrupt country and is it any wonder why our side does not speak out for this election, why they fought Sarah, Newt and now Col Allen West.

Kelly just said that they have breaking news and now ADs come on instead.

we the people, not we the Govt and media and the elitist.

We want answers to many issues, and yet we get an adoring media who either ignores the rigged election to fast and furious to this and yet we have idiots saying congrats obama, I;ve seen all your election you have won .

Then she laughs like a little girl going on her first date.

is anyone else pissed off right now with many in talk radio, our side and the media?


5 posted on 11/15/2012 11:28:31 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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from the day obama got into office we have seen more corruption from this admin than all the modern day admins combined.

Blackmail a General
lie about the deaths, of a border patrol officer to these in Libya, the families want answers , A Co West is being robbed[call 850) 488-7146] Gov office.
To spending and then all th elies, I mean it’;s lie after lie and we get a media whio want to waste their time congrats to him and how he looks good and gives him leading questions with the answers they want to hear.

He should be impeached for all of this by now and so should many in this admin.


6 posted on 11/15/2012 11:32:01 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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I don’t understand. Why are they pointing fingers when it was only about a video?


7 posted on 11/15/2012 11:33:17 AM PST by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: Castigar

Hannity said there is AUDIO of requests for help during the attack. I sure hope someone has made a copy of that for retention outside the regime, otherwise you can bet it’ll be destroyed if not already.


8 posted on 11/15/2012 11:33:42 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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You would have to believe the story that he resigned, and wasn’t forced to leave, as some like Krauthammer & others believe really happened.


9 posted on 11/15/2012 11:38:11 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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From the article:

Petraeus’s last days at the CIA show the extent to which the Benghazi attacks created a climate of interagency finger-pointing. That undercut the retired four-star general’s backing within the Obama administration

Four dead, the possibility that they were going to accept 41 dead, a safehouse burned with the possibility that ALL their Libyan contacts were gone, 15,000 MANPADS circulating, a gun-running op exposed...

It was UNREASONABLE for some finger-pointing...?!?!

10 posted on 11/15/2012 11:38:22 AM PST by gaijin
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Maybe Broadwell had the copy and the FBI got it out of her house....


11 posted on 11/15/2012 11:38:42 AM PST by MissH
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Fox is reporting that Petraeus was pushed out because he wouldn’t go along with the WH’s time line.


12 posted on 11/15/2012 11:41:12 AM PST by BlessingsofLiberty (Remember Brian Terry...)
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I was thinking the same exact thing. 0bama ordered the FBI to go out and confiscate documents that are evidence of his cover-up. If this is the case EVERYONE in the FBI should be ashamed of themselves. They’re ALL complicit in a cover-up if they do this. Hopefully, this is not the case.


13 posted on 11/15/2012 11:41:56 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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You know what we haven't heard?

Not one stinkin’ account of what happened in Benghazi from someone who was actually there.

And there were over 30 people at the “consulate,” more at the “annex,” and also the agency guys who arrived from Tripoli.

Not only have we not heard from these people, other than the four who died, we don't even know their names.

Maybe some friggin’ enterprising reporter who'd like to make a name for himself could find out that info and talk to one of these people!

Or maybe, just maybe, some of them will testify at all these hearing. But as far as I know, I've not heard one single mention of anybody who was there actually testifying before congress.

This is insane. And corrupt beyond belief.

14 posted on 11/15/2012 11:43:35 AM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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National Intelligence Director James Clapper

Dumb as a left-wing rock. Shouldn't an intelligence director be, well, intelligent?

15 posted on 11/15/2012 11:43:56 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Sounds like the Clapper case famously explored by Jack Webb with Johnny Carson...classic!

Clappers

16 posted on 11/15/2012 11:45:17 AM PST by folkquest (Nothing is fool-proof because fools are so ingenious!)
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His clashes would explain this statement that I presume he wanted to put out: “No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. ”


17 posted on 11/15/2012 11:46:22 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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Big Media has drummed Petraeus right out of the service with all the Mr.’s.

Hussein’s water never gets too heavy.


18 posted on 11/15/2012 11:48:22 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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Yep, me too. I know how some freepers hate Glenn Beck but he did state that “ one morning you would wake up and not recognize your country” Boy was he right. We are loosing this war because of the corruption at all levels of business and government. I see no one standing up to tell the truth anymore like John Corzine and MF Global. He got a free pass from Republicans and I believe it was done for a later payoff from the Democrats. They are all corrupt.
19 posted on 11/15/2012 11:49:00 AM PST by lucky american (The Democrats will follow the big "D"even if it means going over a cliff.)
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Megyn Kelly overplayed her hand on Election night on Fox and behaved like some attention-getting, giggly fool toward the end. She's cracking under the pressure and behaving inappropriately at times...hey, Megyn, let Brett Baier be your guide on how to conduct yourself.
20 posted on 11/15/2012 11:49:56 AM PST by itssme
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