I agree about the ambitious brownnoser bit, but not at all that he would go public with this voluntarily in this way.
So just suppose for a minute that you were petraeus and your life was flashing before your eyes. Would you rather take a hit for infidelity from which ALL the information you are now seeing has come from ‘friends”? Or would you wait for the hangman’s noose or the axe to fall?
Suppose the reason you got your job was because you had done this exact kind of op under a previous administration. You knew all the actors and all the players. You are an arabist and anti-Israel who fits right in with this admin...(and gee, so is MS Broadwell.) Imagine that. (Remember, this whole preplanned movie thing was supposed to be blamed on a Jewish ‘billionaire’ from Israel.)
Your hands are clean. The Israelis would have paid holy hell for this.
obama snubs Netanyahu and goes right ahead with the plan...still intent on Israel taking the brunt of this. He phones Netanyahu the same night of the attack. Oh, everything is set. You are on top of it.
You are a very valuable asset...until TWO EX NAVY SEALS you hadn’t foreseen burned your playhouse down. But you attempt to follow through with the play as the script was written anyway.
This awful movie. Oh, this terrible movie produced by some damn RICH JEW from Israel is causing attacks on all our embassies in the ME!!! OMG!!!
And along comes Walid Shoebat to tell the world that not only isn’t their guy a billionaire Jew, (or a disgruntled Egyptian Copt,) he is actually an FBI asset, a muslim connected to the muslim brotherhood and this so-called movie was done in JULY. The FBI is involved from the start.
The ball of yarn starts unraveling. The stories don’t ring true. Four Americans are dead. Thirty more WOULD have died. Not a good thing.
Now take it from there.