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WSJ: Petraeus pushed out after defending CIA over Benghazi?
Hot Air ^ | November 15, 2012 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 11/15/2012 11:41:33 AM PST by Seizethecarp

(via Instapundit):

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.

At issue was whether the CIA should break its silence about its role in Benghazi, Libya, to counter criticism that increasingly was being leveled at the agency and Mr. Petraeus, said senior officials involved in the discussions.

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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; bhocia; cia; clapper; gwot; obama; petraeus; petraeusbenghazi
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To: Seizethecarp
Megan Kelly in the past two hours has been prominently highlighting the WSJ reporting that Petraeus' pushing back on the White House narrative is what triggered his firing, not the affair.

Of course that's the real reason.One needn't be a rocket scientist to figure it out...all you need is the most basic understanding of "The Chicago Way" and Saul Alinsky's work.The General,aka: General BetrayUs,gave signs that he wasn't a team player.When answering to Osama Obama that's a very unfortunate trait because Osama's never been told "no" in his *entire* life,and he doesn't intend for that to start *now*.

61 posted on 11/15/2012 6:44:43 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Benghazi: What Did Baraq Know And When Did He Know It?)
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Donate here!

FReepathon is still on. Day 46
If not now, when?



62 posted on 11/15/2012 6:46:02 PM PST by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Seizethecarp

One wonders what secrets of a TOTUS a CIA Chief might know ....


63 posted on 11/15/2012 6:47:29 PM PST by dodger
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To: Candor7
"Lives are at stake, and Obama, as a fascist, will take them in order to silence those who know that fascism is at work in the area of our own National Security interests, and who can prove the same through evidence."

I mentioned before that I think all of this "investigation" after the FBI already cleared everyone is just a fishing expedition and intimidation. Petraeus isn't going to blink at threats against him, but, ObaMao has no problem "going full Chicago mob" on anyone Petraeus cares about. That may shut him up.

64 posted on 11/15/2012 7:08:52 PM PST by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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To: Seizethecarp

Who had Ambassador Stevens Killed
and How the Petraeus Affair Factors In

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2012/11/14/who-had-ambassador-stevens-killed-and-how-the-petraeus-affair-factors-in/

This is Obama’s potential Watergate moment. If Clinton reveals before Congress that, as the senior official that oversees diplomatic security, that she denied Stevens’ requests for extra security and that she, Holder, Patraeus and Obama watch drone footage for nearly seven hours as Stevens and his party were murdered and that these senior level Cabinet officials blocked AFRICOM Commander, General Hamm, and the Commander of Carrier Task Force 3, Admiral Gayouette from rescuing the Stevens contingent, and then had both men arrested when the tried to disobey orders and rescue Stevens in violation of these executive orders from Obama administration.
The gravity of these events are stunning! All of these senior officials, including the President, are implicated as accomplices in Stevens murder. This is criminally negligent homocide. This is first degree murder! And why did Stevens have to murdered? Stevens was murdered because he was running guns for the CIA to al-Qaeda operatives, first in Libya last year and in Syria this year.

click link to read it all very interesting


65 posted on 11/15/2012 7:12:29 PM PST by angelcindy ("If you follow the crowd ,you get no further than the crowd!")
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To: Carry_Okie

After all, Jennifer Flowers is still alive. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

True dat, but then Bill Clinton was not a liberal fascist then, just a thug. Obama is a liberal fascist, and fascists are very dangerous , as history has shown.

Good read:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


66 posted on 11/15/2012 8:10:22 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: okie01

Obama needs nothing so severe as to control Petraeus’ actions. >>>>>>>>>>

Well, you gotta admit, it depends on what Petraeus’s actions are. We will have to see. I hope civilized society prevails.


67 posted on 11/15/2012 8:13:52 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: little jeremiah

As far as I can tell, at this point , anything Petraeus says to Congressional Committee will be behind closed door ( in camera hearing).The Senate Committee on Intelligence chaired by Diane Feinstein will be the committee he sees, but its really just for the leftists pols to see what Petraeus intends to say, like a discovery hearing.

He may or may not be in personal danger after the hearing.
Depends on how many beans he spills.


68 posted on 11/15/2012 8:18:19 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: livius

I think they are all just protecting their first “black” president. Even the RINOs are on board and protect him every chance they get. Lindsay and Juan McCain are feigning outrage to get the investigation under Senate control so they can protect the little weasel POTUS from the House.


69 posted on 11/15/2012 8:29:25 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: Jeff Head
I subscribe to the Gunrunning Theory myself .

Maybe they could not call in air support in the middle of the transfer of a lot of SAMs at Benghazi for instance, probably not a good idea.

Does Glen Becks theory line up ? or is it all speculation.

If Becks theory is true Obama would be at proxy war with Israel. Part of Obamas admitted Arab Spring alliance

70 posted on 11/16/2012 12:04:44 AM PST by KTM rider
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To: Candor7

Remember William E. Colby.


71 posted on 11/16/2012 2:45:22 AM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: bunster

Amen!


72 posted on 11/16/2012 4:44:49 AM PST by OldEagle
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To: Islander7

Remember William E. Colby.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yes, tippy canoe for Billy too.


73 posted on 11/16/2012 10:15:00 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Me too. Can’t stand Shep and getting that way with the killing Lincoln author.


74 posted on 11/16/2012 11:08:33 AM PST by golfisnr1
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To: Candor7
If we can't believe Petraeus, who can we believe? I've become so cynical.

Oh well, "From a sharia point of view, he should be stoned to death."

Petraeus has to go...we must obey the Sharia.

75 posted on 11/16/2012 12:11:39 PM PST by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
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