I am no conspiracy nut. No sir, not me. But I mean really? C’mon!!
3 days after the election and a week before he is to testify before Congress on Benghazi and the CIA head resigns over scandal? And now he will not be testifying!
You have to be kidding me. Don’t get me wrong, I am sure he did it and was not set up. But the timing of this stinks to high heaven!!
Are we to believe that this information just happened to come to light at the absolutely most convenient time as to not impact the election and to prevent him from testifying now and ultimately discrediting him as well.
Do they think they can get away with stuff like this? Oh yeah, they can.
November 9, 2012 at 11:35 pm
This is way too incredible and convenient! Let's see how this plays out. Hopefully to an impeachment.
November 10, 2012 at 12:18 am
Can we stonewall Congress? Yes, we can!
November 10, 2012 at 1:06 am
Pray the Memorare for our country.
If you're looking for something to read that will take your mind off this current disaster, check out the outstanding literature of Michael D. O'Brien.
November 10, 2012 at 1:50 am
Obviously, the general is embarrassed, and it begs the question why this is disclosed now.
On Benghazi, it is open and shut to anyone with a military background. Who can authorize the defense in Libya? Only the President. We need look nowhere else. If true that nothing could have been done, this is a strategic failure, and this also indicts the president.
There is a log kept in the situation room. Do I need to spell that out?
I understand that the command in Africa also could have called off the military response to the Benghazi attack. He is retiring; announced since Sept. 11th. Move along; nothing to see here.
November 10, 2012 at 2:28 am
RE: Michael D. O'Brien, while everyone I know says good things about his Father Elijah books, his "A Landscape with Dragons" reveals him to be a paranoid conspiracy-theorist of the Pat Pulling type.
Just a caveat, dude's apparently bonkers. But again, apparently his actual fiction ain't bad.
November 10, 2012 at 2:40 am
Thank you, American voter, for your encore fail. Cue the administration clowns to jump in and out of the tiny car.
Anything shiny, sparkly, swirly thing that attracts the media slack-jaws to the Benghazi story is fine with me. It's just sad that a good woman has to pay for the publicity.
It's also a damn shame that I have to wear my tin foil hat for another four years.
November 10, 2012 at 2:47 am
Well…if our POTUS actually had a pair, he would a) recall the general to active duty, for an Article 32, looking into whether he should stand court-martial for adultery or b) knock him to major-general and cut his retirement pay. AND the POTUS would own up to the fact that we were not listening and not preparing for what panned out in Libya (which was feared by the ambassador). Oh and the general would be forced to obey the law, and be held accountable to Congress.
November 10, 2012 at 2:59 am
"Do they think they can get away with stuff like this? Oh yeah, they can."
Yep, the fix is in, because The One knows that we have a lap dog, rather than a watchdog, media.
November 10, 2012 at 3:05 am
Sophia's Favorite: Thanks for that note about O'Brien's book on children's literature — I haven't read it because I suspected as much. I've read a few novels of his that I really enjoyed. But the synopses I've read of "A Landscape with Dragons" have sounded nutty. Nice to hear it confirmed.
November 10, 2012 at 3:06 am
Gen Petraeus still can be subpoenaed to testify and compelled to do so. And probably will be. Whether the magnititude of the scandal ever is noticed is another thing.
November 10, 2012 at 6:11 am
and since WHEN is adultery a dischargable offense in a democrat administration???
Bill Clinton??? Teddy Kennedy??? et. al.
Heck it's generally a big resume enhancer for them!
Fishy doesn't BEGIN it describe this….and you're right, they'll get away with it all….all.
November 10, 2012 at 6:25 am
@susan: If he is still a commissioned officer (he's not on active duty but I don't think he's retired or resigned his commission), then it may come under "conduct unbecoming".
Of course, just because the military fires him doesn't mean he can't testify, so, yeah, something here smells funny.
November 10, 2012 at 11:37 am
Agreed. That's exactly what I thought when I heard it. To convenient. Or perhaps when you see a storm's coming, you jump ship?
November 10, 2012 at 1:00 pm
He did retire, to become the Director of the CIA. And, yes, he can be subpoenaed.
November 10, 2012 at 2:02 pm
Affair seems to have occurred while he was still in the military.
That would allow for a court marshal, since the military services consider adultery as a crime!
Also, why is the left so quite about this? They hate this man, why are they not dancing & cheering.
This man spends his career serving our country, he also served in an institution they Adultery would land him in big trouble & only would get worse the higher rant earned.
The journalist writing his Bio seems to be the other in this mess; is married herself.
Question is why was Petraeus given the job at CIA? Was it to keep his career from being ruin? Or was it an ACE that could be played perfectly?
I know America is being played…
November 10, 2012 at 2:29 pm
It's understandable that people will call Michael O'Brien paranoid and bonkers. He questions things you want to be able to consume without question, particularly modern culture. I've been told to "lighten up" about the BBC Game of Thrones. "So what if there's a little sex? It has moral qualities". Try reading O'Brien and think about what he says, rather than reading synopses by those who want to fit into the world.
November 10, 2012 at 2:45 pm
I read a few of Michael O'Brien's books, along with the Landscape with Dragons, and I found the put insight and appreciated the questions he raised. It also got me to do my own 'reading' and 'researching' on trends in children's and teen literature, and the picture that unfolded was not a happy one.
November 10, 2012 at 2:47 pm
"the put" meant to read "they offered"
November 10, 2012 at 3:15 pm
If the FBI and CIA would had spent less time reading each other's love letters and more time doing their job, perhaps 9/11, the terrorist attack by a Moslem on unarmed soldiers at Fort Hood, and the terrorist attack on our legation at Benghazi could have been avoided.
– Mack
November 10, 2012 at 3:16 pm
Or, as a more careful writer would say, "If the FBI and CIA had spent…"
Apologies for my clumsiness.
– Mack