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CIA Director Resigns

Re: CIA director Petraeus resigns over affair

Broadwell said the CIA were holding Libyan prisoners at the annex and that was the reason for the attack.

Petraeus should have his head examined.

But Broadwell’s father said Sunday his daughter is the victim of character assassination and implied the bombshell story is just a smoke screen for something bigger.

“This is about something else entirely, and the truth will come out,” Broadwell’s dad, Paul Krantz, told the Daily News outside his home in Bismarck, N.D.

“There is a lot more that is going to come out,” said Krantz, claiming he was not allowed to elaborate. “You wait and see. There’s a lot more here than meets the eye.”

You may have a point. Until Broadwell made her Oct. 26 speech about Libyan prisoners, everything was well under wraps. It seems likely that particular subject would have come up in the hearings, as well as Petraeus' claim (under oath) on Sept. 14 that the video was at fault for the attack.

With apologies to Shakespeare, something is rotten in Langley.
 
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You may have a point. Until Broadwell made her Oct. 26 speech about Libyan prisoners, everything was well under wraps. It seems likely that particular subject would have come up in the hearings, as well as Petraeus' claim (under oath) on Sept. 14 that the video was at fault for the attack.

With apologies to Shakespeare, something is rotten in Langley.

That's for sure..

This is going to be a real mess.
 
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Messsier and messier, and now the MSM news organizations are all over it. :roll:

Gen. John Allen also helped Jill Kelley's sister during custody battle

WASHINGTON -- Both Gen. David Petraeus and Gen. John Allen intervened in the same nasty child custody battle involving Natalie Khawam, the “psychologically unstable” twin sister of Jill Kelley, whose bombshell claims of being threatened by Petraeus' lover led to the top spy’s resignation last week, the Post has learned.

Is there no limit to the amount of BS that will get stirred up to keep attention diverted from the investigation of what happened at Benghazi?
 
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Many, many questions arising from this, and this is going to lead back to the WH, which won't be good for the country....Everyone be sure and look at what is being done in DC while this is capturing everyones attention.
 
Re: CIA director Petraeus resigns over affair

Many, many questions arising from this, and this is going to lead back to the WH, which won't be good for the country....Everyone be sure and look at what is being done in DC while this is capturing everyones attention.

Spot on! Watch the other hand...
 
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Broadwell said the CIA were holding Libyan prisoners at the annex and that was the reason for the attack.

Petraeus should have his head examined.

But Broadwell’s father said Sunday his daughter is the victim of character assassination and implied the bombshell story is just a smoke screen for something bigger.

“This is about something else entirely, and the truth will come out,” Broadwell’s dad, Paul Krantz, told the Daily News outside his home in Bismarck, N.D.

“There is a lot more that is going to come out,” said Krantz, claiming he was not allowed to elaborate. “You wait and see. There’s a lot more here than meets the eye.”

Has it been confirmed that Patreaus told her that and she didn't make it up?
 
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Has it been confirmed that Patreaus told her that and she didn't make it up?

I'm more interested in whether or not it is true. If so, we can ask how this came to be as well as your question.
 
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Many, many questions arising from this, and this is going to lead back to the WH, which won't be good for the country....Everyone be sure and look at what is being done in DC while this is capturing everyones attention.

I think some of this is going to lead back to the FBI too.
 
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I think some of this is going to lead back to the FBI too.


No doubt. The entire administration is corrupt if you ask me. On multiple levels we have stories starting with Benghazi where the President claims not to have been in the loop about sensitive incidents where it is inconceivable that this would be the case. I can not imagine a scenario where the President wouldn't be notified when it is suspected, found out, or known that the D-CIA was in a compromising position, and being investigated. Also that he says he wasn't is IMHO, a lie plain and simple.

But, add it to the list. This President lies to the American public as easily as the average person takes a drink of water.
 
Just announced.

Appears another 4-star General has been demoted and booted for misbehavior. (That club is not having a good year.....)
 
Saw this on the daily show and thought you guys might like it.

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Checkmate.
The opportunity for blackmail exists with pretty much every one. It does not make it particularly likely. With the rest of the facts involved, the chance that the issue here is blackmail is vanishingly small. All those details are in this very thread. Is English your second language?

Isn't it interesting? Blackmail is always a possibility when you are in a position of power and lack the moral fiber to do the right thing. I didn't think accusations of blackmail would be pointed at Obama... but it seems quite odd now when you connect the dots... does it not?

And to think... major publications discuss the potential of blackmail actually having occurred! Within our own government!!! From the leader of Parasite Nation.

The Petraeus Affair and the Risk of Blackmail: Another Nail In America's Coffin
The Petraeus Affair and the Risk of Blackmail: Another Nail In America's Coffin - Forbes

Did the White House Blackmail General Petraeus to Support a Cover Story?
Mainstream Media Caught In Snarl Of Tangled Benghazi Yarns - Forbes

I think the really shocking news today was that General Petraeus thought and hoped he could keep his job. He thought that it might and it would be kept secret, and that he could stay in his position... It meant that he understood that the FBI obviously knew what was going on. He was hoping that those administration officials would not disclose what had happened, and therefore hoping that he would keep his job. And that meant that he understood that his job, his reputation, his legacy, his whole celebrated life was in the hands of the administration, and he expected they would protect him by keeping it quiet.

And that brings us to the ultimate issue, and that is his testimony on September 13. That’s the thing that connects the two scandals, and that’s the only thing that makes the sex scandal relevant. Otherwise it would be an exercise in sensationalism and voyeurism and nothing else.

The reason it’s important is here’s a man who knows the administration holds his fate in its hands, and he gives testimony completely at variance with what the Secretary of Defense had said the day before, at variance with what he’d heard from his station chief in Tripoli, and with everything that we had heard. Was he influenced by the fact that he knew his fate was held by people within the administration at that time?

Dr. Krauthammer continued,

Of course it was being held over Petraeus’s head, and the sword was lowered on Election Day. You don’t have to be a cynic to see that as the ultimate in cynicism. As long as they needed him to give the administration line to quote Bill, everybody was silent. And as soon as the election’s over, as soon as he can be dispensed with, the sword drops and he’s destroyed. I mean, can you imagine what it’s like to be on that pressure and to think it didn’t distort or at least in some way unconsciously influence his testimony? That’s hard to believe.

Charles Krauthammer
 
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