[RummyChick]

We already know the answer. Petraeus told the House after the attack that it was due to out of control protests over a video.

[expat2]

My suspect is that guy Crapper, or whatever — the one who said the Muslim Brother hood was just a nice bunch of philanthropists.

[Travis McGee]

Former General Petraeus has a lot of 'splaining to do, if he wants to retain a shred of his former reputation.

We now know they were watching the consulate attack in real time. No mob, no protest, just a military attack. And Petraeus knew it in real time.

He threw away his integrity so easily. He's almost in Dempsey's Quisling class now.

[rxtn41]

He had the correct information as to the cause...do you really believe he told the administration this lame excuse...Waiting for the other shoe to drop

[TomGuy]

Petraeus told the House after the attack that it was due to out of control protests over a video.

Hmmmm. I recall earlier in the spring many on FR hoping Petraeus would enter politics on the Republican side. Probably, many of them were touting Colin Powell a decade ago, too.

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[pieceofthepuzzle]

“I hope someone in the press corpse asks the question: just who were these member of the “intelligence community” that were able to mislead the smartest President the world has ever known. We want names. We want to know if these same people also provide “intelligence” on exactly when Iran will have a nuclear weapon. It will give us an idea of just how worried we should be.”

The press are part of what I would call the ‘Government, Media-Entertainment, Academic Complex’ that has as it's foremost goal the perpetuation of its own stature and power, and as a secondary goal the transformation of American society into something that looks like socialist Europe (only more socialist).

I think it's really important to break things down into their fundamental elements, and the common thread among the all of those in the ‘Government, Media-Entertainment, Academic Complex’ is ego. Ego is the number one motivating force behind liberalism - at least at the level of the leadership, organizers, and visible sycophants in the media, entertainment industry, and academics. Never doubt that.

People like Streisand, Penn, Couric, Krugman, O’Brien etc. etc. etc. don't need more money - they have plenty. They don't need to be liberal activists to ‘help others’ - they could do plenty behind the scenes to help those in need financially and otherwise. They do what they do because they think it makes them bigger, and more important in some way. They think of themselves as part of the ‘special’ elite guiders of the world - smarter and more wise than the rest of the ‘masses’, and ordained to guide the masses - and be adored by the masses.

This is absolutely, without doubt, a big part of what drives the media today. They think they are an important component of the guiding elite - and they will ultimately not report or pursue things that support those who want to give more power back to ‘the masses’ and diminish the power of the ‘Government, Media-Entertainment, Academic Complex’ - with which they identify and from which they derive their ‘specialness’.