Posted on 11/16/2012 2:08:57 PM PST by The Wizard
I offer this for your discussion
I think I’m pretty sure I agree with you.
Plain as the nose on your face that’s the gist of the story. I only wish he had not give false testimony in the earlier hearing. We’ll be hearing more about that flip flop in days to come. The General will have to admit to being blackmailed for that to go away.
Wasn’t the General dancing pretty close to the perjury line, with his conflicting testimony?
Obama is tying up every loose end in the Libya affair, and no one seems to care what kind of a stink it raises. Has half the country sold their souls to the devil or something? The media wants us to think it doesn’t matter, and everyone should just mind their own business, pretend nothing happened. It’s got to be that, or group think, brainwashing, something.
There was probably no overt threat or blackmail.
When a person has compromised themselves in their conduct, the loss of virtue produces a guilt and protective attitude and paranoia. The person becomes highly cooperative to those with authority and intiment knowledge of them.
The slightest wiff that “this is what is expected of him” places the person having lost their virtues in the protective mode and makes their compliance automatic.
By appointing him with these problems, Obama assured himself a compliant partner in his efforts and a fall guy when one was needed or in the event of non-compliance.
We are probably not going to hear that someone called him and said, General, you better say....______ or we will do X. Obama is not going to have a smoking gun here.
I see other requests during the investigation to be the answer as I have posted elsewhere:
I think it boils down to five requests to confirm the administrations assertion that they “did everything they could” to help the Americans involved.
1. Provide the directives for those at the Consulate — who sent them and why.
2. Show what communications were sent requesting what actions by those that sent them as demonstrated by item 1.
3. Provide the Cross Border Authorization as signed by the President.
4. Have each recieving agency that could take action on #3 show their action orders or explain why they ignored the President.
5, Ask for the written corrective actions issued by the President to thoose parties who failed to act on his Cross Border Authorizations.
Short and Sweet — they can’t provide any of it — they left them there to die.
I listened to King today and he made plain that Patreaus’ assertions that his testimony today was no different than that prior testimony were not true, that he, King, remembers it differently.
A polite way of calling Petraeus a fibber but I’m sure they tape these things. If your theory is correct than Petreaus is depending that those in today’s hearing won’t bring up lying under oath charges, if applicable, I dunno.
At the least the pubs (AND Dems-prolly the ones to fear) can echo a mantra about lying now or lying then.
I think you’re right but if you are, I want Petraeus to tell us more, to tell us just how the admin blackmailed him/inferred revelations of personal errors. I want Petraeus all the things he knows, everything he knows, cause I think he knows lots.
IF you are right we shouldn’t be able to shut the man up.
Think about it.
Well, duh! The disturbing thing to me is that as bad as the lying about whether it was a terrorist attack or not is, that’s nothing compared to the real crime: the stand down order that left a handful of brave Americans fighting off over 100 al Qaeda fighters for over eight hours with no backup, resulting in the loss of four lives. The initial failure to take precautions is the second worst part of it, and then the lying afterwards. Now, however, we’re either focused on a totally irrelevant factor — the affair — or the least damaging part of the scandal — the lying.
Odumbo just wants everyone to think like Geraldo Riveria that there is an illogical explanation for the changes made to the talking points memeo. Lets see is it group think no - it is propaganda - a lie told enough times it is supposed to believed as the truth. odumbo a trained liar (lawyer) does not view anything as the truth unless he has told it himself. Oddly enough Odumo is a fool without any knowledge of history and he is doomed to failureo keep lying and lying again about the lies thast he first told because he has knowledge of the lies he is telling.
The letter that he wrote to his people at CIA was very telling. Nobody ever admits to having an affair to their subordinates in that public manner.
well, he was against the terrorist attack meme before he was for it......
No perjury. I don’t believe he testified under oath.
I don’t think he was under oath the first time.
Obama is tying up every loose end in the Libya affair, and no one seems to care what kind of a stink it raises. Has half the country sold their souls to the devil or something? The media wants us to think it doesn’t matter, and everyone should just mind their own business, pretend nothing happened. It’s got to be that, or group think, brainwashing, something.
Waco/ Clinton come to mind.....
>> I think you’re right but if you are, I want Petraeus to tell us more, to tell us just how <<
He will when his book comes out early next year...
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
That was my thought from the day he resigned. I believe Krauthammer thinks it likely too, though he’s been dancing all around it.
IMPEACH the communist filth. If Newt were still around, he’d go for the jugular. Boehner will just invite him to play golf.
I don’t know why they bother with such testimony when it isn’t under oath.
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