I am very far from a dispatcher, but thanks!
I think you believe that all this information is public source and given, but it’s not. This is just assembled from gobs of news articles.
Congress doesn’t do such news article assembly. They subpoena people and documents. Documents can be controlled by the Administration (Top Sekrete, heh), and it’s pretty obvious they can control people if you have the right dirt.
So no, it’s not “obvious” to anyone who views it from the light of a official panel of Congressman that it was anything more than a protest gone bad. They can only pronounce judgement on what official documentation they get.
If the news leaks are not adequate to power the proper discovery process, they will never see the proper documents, and you can sure bet Petraeus is not going to step out of line.
To use your example, the news leaks are the “dispatcher” and Congress is the police. Congress can’t visualize the entire episode just from the 911 call. There has to be more *real* evidence, which I can guarantee won’t be provided by Petraeus or the administration.
This is another dead end. I don’t like the Administration, but I will say this: they have political game that can’t be easily reckoned with.
And finally, now that Mr. Petraeus is a citizen, he is no longer entitled to access to the very documents that he produced during his personal discovery mission. The right leaks to the right lawmakers and they will be hounding him on every recollection error vs. the verbatim report.
It’s like Rush said: if you think something is going to come of this, you have your hopes set way too high.
And if I or Rush is wrong, then I will be pleasantly surprised and happy about it. I suspect the chance of that happening is less than hitting the PowerBall lottery.
Fact One:
1) Only the POTUS can authorize a CBA (cross border authority) command for a rescue mission in a foreign nation.
Plus Fact Two:
2) No rescue mission was attempted.
Equals Fact Three:
3) 0bama turned his back on 41 State Dept. and CIA employees refusing to issue a CBA command and went to bed so he could go to Las Vegas the next day.