Posted on 07/29/2016 6:42:48 PM PDT by dontreadthis
When you read this, sip slowly, dust off the way-back machine, and think about those who have surfaced visibly to support Hillary Clinton. Including “retired” U.S. General John Allen (retired in 2012), who was previously brought out of retirement to lead President Obama’s fight against ISIS in 2014.
In order to understand the scope of the relationships it takes understanding the full back story. Stay with it….
general john allen
The question posed to the Tree House back in 2014 was: Why is the White House selecting a retired General John Allen, instead of a current commanding officer to lead Obama’s anti-ISIS efforts?
Deep breath: This White House uses personal leverage to their advantage like no other before it. Example #1: Where’s Bowe Bergdahl? Example #2: What ever happened to Ahmed Abu Khattala the captured head of the Benghazi attack ?
See… you had to think about it. This White House swamps us so much we forget to follow-up…..
There was a risk to the political optics of fighting ISIS. A terrorist enemy the White House refused to acknowledge, and previously called the “JV Team”. Consequently, the administration needed a competent “General” President Obama and Denis McDonough could control, rely upon, and quite possibly bypass the Pentagon.
So who did the White House leverage in 2014?
Yeah, General John Allen.
Fire Up The Way-Back Machine To Summer 2012 !!
Jill and Dr. Scott Kelley lived in the Tampa / St. Pete area. They were/are active in the military community with support for military families.
The Kelley’s do numerous fundraisers etc. and when Petraeus was assigned to station in Tampa the Kelley’s hosted a meet-n-greet with Holly and David Petraeus.
Mr and Mrs. Petraeus became friends with Mr. and Mrs. Kelley.
So mid-summer 2012 Jill Kelley, a Petraeus family friend, began receiving odd and harrassing e-mails about her relationship with CIA director General David Petraeus:
“More like, ‘Who do you think you are? … You parade around the base … You need to take it down a notch,’” according to the source, who was until recently at the highest levels of the intelligence community and prefers not to be identified by name.
Jill Kelley then reaches out to a family friend, who is by profession, in the FBI. Kelly asks if these unsourced e-mails reach the level of cyber-stalking.
The FBI “friend” takes Kelly to a field office where he puts her in contact with the “cyber-crimes” division/agents. There they essentially come to the conclusion the statute on cyber-stalking does actually seem to apply, so they open a preliminary case.
The first step in that aspect of the case is to back-check the IP’s etc to find the origin of the e-mails to Kelley.
That initial investigative part finds Paula Broadwell as the origin of the e-mails to Kelley. So the FBI gets a subpoena to dig further into the Broadwell electronic mail accounts. *Note the investigation at this point is into Paula Broadwell*
During the research of Broadwell’s communication it becomes apparent that, in addition to harassing Kelly, Broadwell is in contact with CIA Director General David Petraeus on some “personal level”.
While this is occuring, the original FBI friend (unknown) of Kelley is asking the Cyber division people on the case for updates. They provide “the friend” some information based on professional courtesy.
The FBI friend in turn then relays this information to Jill Kelley herself; Kelly then begins to inform her friend, General Petraeus, of the source. Essentially Kelly telling Petraeus “heads up” this woman (Broadwell) you know has been identified as the origin of threatening e-mails to me.
It Gets Creepy – Simultaneously, the FBI ‘friend’ of Kelley sends a personal, perhaps flirtatious, picture to Kelley the FBI becomes aware of (they are monitoring Kelley’s communication).
The FBI, is not comfortable with the “non-professional” relationship between the FBI friend and Kelley, and they inform him he is ‘cut out’ of the story.
(The FBI probably know that Kelley is also back-channelling information from this guy to her friend Gen Petraeus – any investigator would not like this loss of control).
As the CIA Director becomes involved in the story, the FBI friend, now ‘cut out’, then perceives the story/investigation as potentially being buried because of the people involved.
So he takes the bit of “outsider” information he knows to a congressman; who, in turn, takes the information to House Majority Whip, Congressman Eric Cantor.
Congressman Cantor then reaches out to the FBI and asks if General Petraeus is the subject of an investigation.
At this point in time Cantor is long-armed by the FBI to his inquiry because, in essence, General Petraeus is NOT the subject of an FBI investigation — Paula Broadwell is.
However, subsequent to the Cantor inquiry “higher ups” (FBI Director Robert Mueller) within the FBI are then notified. Mueller is told there is this investigation of this woman (Broadwell) which attaches her to CIA Director Petraeus in a rather sordid fashion.
The “affair is now outed.”
During the investigation it is noted/discovered that General Petraeus has been sexually involved with the Broadwell woman, however there is no criminal law-breaking per se’ on the part of the General, nor is he lying or covering it up.
So technically, there was no investigation of General Petraeus, only Paula Broadwell.
Also technically, there is no notification to the Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee because they don’t tell the oversight committee about affairs, or personal indiscretions, only about unlawful activity being investigated. [At least this is the claim of the FBI.]
potus and Holder president obama and eric holderAt some point (late summer – Aug/Sept. 2012) the FBI head, Director Robert Mueller, now needs to tell the DOJ -Eric Holder- about Petraeus showing up on the radar of an investigation into another party.
Again, it appears no law was broken, and Petraeus was NOT the source of the investigation.
The FBI interviews General Petraeus to discuss, he admits the affair with Broadwell, the FBI find no security breach – so at this point it is not illegal, just sordid.
THEN – Benghazi Happens 9/11/12
The Benghazi attack was September 11th/12th 2012. After the investigation into Broadwell / Petraeus, a letter of investigative finding is filed (late Oct 2012).
Subsequently, because Petraeus is outlined in the investigation of Broadwell, the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, is notified (End October 2012).
Director Clapper then calls Petraeus and tells him the affair is probably going to come out publicly because two congressmen also have knowledge of it – further it compromises his position as CIA Director.
National Intelligence Director James Clapper recommends resignation to Petraeus.
The following day James Clapper then tells the President of the conversation with Petraeus and his recommendation. The day after this, President Obama calls Petraeus to the White House, they discuss privately, they both agree on Petraeus resignation.
The story could have stopped there, but it didn’t. in a post Benghazi world, General Petraeus is a risk to the White House and Hillary Clinton.
Remember, General Petraeus had nothing to do with the Libya fiasco, that was all constructed by Petraeus’s predecessor Leon Panetta (CIA) and Hillary Clinton (State Dept).
With the Benghazi attack at the top of the headlines, and with the media looking into the various stories, the White House, FBI and Media were all scrambling. They began looking backwards again into Paula Broadwell.
There were statements from Broadwell about CIA operations in Benghazi that could only have come from her relationship with General Petraeus, “pillow talk.”
Broadwell was publicly revealing some rather dangerous information that puts the White House at risk. Broadwell knew the Benghazi Annex was a CIA “rendition site”:
Given the now investigated relationship between Broadwell and Petraeus, the speech at Colorado University by Broadwell, takes on a new level of meaning.
As Broadwell outlined in her statement that the Benghazi CIA “Annex” was also a CIA detention facility of sorts, it becomes obvious she might be in posession of leaked CIA classified information. Did she actually have information about CIA rendition sites?
Her claim of Benghazi Militia members being held at the CIA compound is NOW the issue of investigation.
In essence — “Did Petraeus tell Broadwell CIA secrets?” now becomes the national story.
FBI agents were at the Broadwell home in North Carolina Monday night to carry out a consensual search that had been arranged with her lawyers, law enforcement sources said. The search was to locate additional classified material on computers or documents in the home, the sources said.
Broadwell appears to be cooperating with investigators in an effort to make this go away, to show that she has nothing else to hide, the sources said.
But House Majority Leader Eric Cantor knew of Petraeus’ affair with Broadwell almost two weeks before the former CIA director resigned his post.
A senior Cantor aide told ABC News that the Republican congressman from Virginia learned about the FBI investigation that brought the affair to light in a phone conversation with an FBI agent Oct. 27.
Cantor then asked his chief-of-staff to pass the information along to the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller. Cantor spoke to no one else about the investigation, the aide said.
Hurricane Sandy delayed the message to Mueller until Oct. 31. Petraeus admitted the extramarital relationship and submitted his resignation nine days later. (more)
…. and oh yeah, watch out, here’s where the General Allen story connects to Jill Kelley
[…] In a new twist to the Gen. David Petraeus sex scandal, the Pentagon said Tuesday [November 13th 2012] that the top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, is under investigation for alleged “inappropriate communications” with a woman who is said to have received threatening emails from Paula Broadwell, the woman with whom Petraeus had an extramarital affair, Jill Kelly.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in a written statement issued to reporters aboard his aircraft, en route from Honolulu to Perth, Australia, that the FBI referred the matter to the Pentagon on Sunday. Panetta said that he ordered a Pentagon investigation of Allen on Monday.
Allen, a four-star Marine general, succeeded Petraeus as the top American commander in Afghanistan in July 2011.
The senior official, who discussed the matter only on condition of anonymity because it is under investigation, said Panetta believed it was prudent to launch a Pentagon investigation, although the official would not explain the nature of Allen’s problematic communications.
The official said 20,000 to 30,000 pages of emails and other documents from Allen’s communications with Kelley between 2010 and 2012 are under review. He would not say whether they involved sexual matters or whether they are thought to include unauthorized disclosures of classified information.
He said he did not know whether Petraeus is mentioned in the emails.
“Gen. Allen disputes that he has engaged in any wrongdoing in this matter,” the official said. He said Allen currently is in Washington. (More)
Within a few weeks of Leon Panetta informing the media of an investigation into General John Allen, Allen retires.
Occam’s Razor: 2012’s General Allen’s quiet disappearance, is 2014’s political leverage to use General Allen as the tool needed to present the image of Obama’s fight against ISIS.
Remember, the explosive yet underreported aspect to Paula Broadwell in 2012 was her discussing highly classified information about the Benghazi Annex also being a CIA rendition and black op’s site.
Because everyone was so focused on Hillary Clinton’s congressional testimony almost no-one paid Broadwell’s massive revelation any further attention. No-one followed up with questioning anyone about any of it. The Benghazi “Annex” was a CIA rendition site.
Remember it was Leon Panetta (CIA) and Hillary Clinton (State Dept.) who joined together for the covert Libyan operations… Fast forward four years later and Hillary is running for President.
Now do you see the motives?
Very short article by Daniel Greenfield regarding Gen. Allen and his ties to think-tank Brookings Inst. and their funding by Qatar.
GENERAL JOHN ALLEN, BROOKINGS AND QATAR
Disagree with you here. Allen was run out by people that hold their oaths. There has been a reclaiming of the military for the last two years.
Here is one of Obozo’s stooges who got it:
Occam’s Razor: 2012’s General Allen’s quiet disappearance, is 2014’s political leverage to use General Allen as the tool needed to present the image of Obama’s fight against ISIS.
This analysis misses a piece
Allen was cleared of misconduct in early 2013. He was already a 4-star with 37 years of service and just short of 60 years old at retirement.
So he was near the end of his career anyway, so they couldn't wreck that.
Where's the leverage
Knew John Allen as a 2LT. Didn’t like him then as he seemed to not have much of a “moral compass.” Did not work with him after TBS. He is a smart guy and I know some who liked him, but he apparently has gone completely to the dark side.
Probably because he’s a chickensh*t PX hero.
They have his children.
Thank You! Me neither.
He is a liar and disgrace to the Marine Corps.
I agree. I just don’t see the “leverage.” It may have been there, but not adequately explained by the author.
Article loses its focus and never explains the “leverage”.... maybe author thinks it’s obvious but no, it needs some sorting out. Is it that Obama brought Allen back because they held blackmail information over his head, so he could be controlled??? That may be what’s insinuated, but it ought to be spelled out.
Speaking as a commissioned officer for the last 30 years, it would appear by your comment that you have met very few officers. My experience while serving is that few officers could be classified as "liberal".
A person with a “blank” about page is an empty suit or in the Emperor’s New Clothes !!!
Why Did General John Allen Speak at DNC Convention For Hillary Clinton/
Lack of morals.
He was bribed.
What is a “blank about page?”
Like this example !!!
“minnesota_bound hasn’t created an about page. “
FBI seizes data of retired general related to Qatar lobbying effort
Just the News ^ | 6/8/22 | Sophie Mann
Posted on 6/8/2022, 7:16:24 PM by markomalley
Retired four-star Marine Gen. John Allen, is on administrative leave from his role as president of the Brookings Institute D.C. think tank after the FBI seized his electronic data on suspicion of lying to investigators and withholding evidence about his role in secretly lobbying for the government of Qatar.
As a general, he commanded all U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in the Obama administration....
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