[Strategerist]

On 9/11/2012, that officer -Rear Admiral Charles M. Gaouette, commander of Carrier Strike Group Three in the Middle East- apparently felt obligated to come to the aid of besieged US defenses at the Benghazi consulate

Uggh, not this idiocy again; CSG 3 (Stennis) was in the Pacific at the time, and couldn't possibly have done the slightest thing in Benghazi.

There's plenty of real, actual, fishy things about Benghazi - all of this ill-informed kooktastic nutter stuff actually hurts the argument and helps Obama immensely by discrediting the Right.

[Wallace T.]

Irrespective of the conspiracism, the sudden termination of military officials as well as Hillary Clinton is reminiscent of senior officer purges that occurred in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. In the former case, Stalin was suffused with paranoia about enemies, real and imagined, in the Red Army. In the latter case, Hitler was fighting against his "Left" wing, the radical socialists in the Brownshirts, and his "Right" wing, the monarchist Prussian Junkers who dominated the German Army's officer corps.

Changing hostile commanders is not unknown in American history. General MacArthur was effectively exiled to the Philippine after he publicly clashed with Franklin Roosevelt over defense cuts. General Edwin Walker was removed from command by Kennedy when he used right-wing materials to educate troops under his command. Later, Walker was railroaded into a mental institution by the Kennedys, where only pressure from conservative Congressmen effected his release.