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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #50 on: November 10, 2012, 09:14:46 AM »
Quote from: Chris_ on November 09, 2012, 11:19:12 PM
Is an extramarital affair enough to cost someone their security clearance?  I heard some chatter on another site that it was considered contraband and could be grounds to have your clearance revoked.  I wonder if that's why he resigned.

It is enough to get a clearance pulled.  I had to get a TS clearance for one of my collateral duties, the anal exam they do on you is pretty impressive.
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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #51 on: November 10, 2012, 12:26:10 PM »
On Greta's show last night something clicked.  Jennifer Griffin was on talking about this.
 
The CIA outpost where the 2 dead marines came from was the first to say that it wasn't the video but a planned attack. 

Then the UN Amb. Rice went on tv saying it was the video that caused it, and that she got her info from intelligence reports.

When Petreaus testified before the Senate he said it was the video, ignoring what the outpost had said.

So now he's resigned because of the affair, even though it's been over for several months, and many people knew about it.

Petreaus was supposed to testify again next week, but now his replacement is going to.  (I wonder what they have on that guy)

I've also read where Petreaus is lawyering up, and if subpoenaed, I bet he will take the fifth.

IMO, Petreaus was told to back up Rice's story or else his affair would come out.  Petreaus didn't play ball with the WH when he said it wasn't his department that refused to send help to the consulate, which I'm sure made Obama and Co. angry and not trust him to keep the video story straight when he testified again.  The WH had to be sure that he didn't testify.

Even if the Senate calls Petreaus to testify he's already screwed. If he did Obama's bidding by backing up Rice, that means he lied at the senate hearing, and they don't take kindly to that.

Benghazigate just gets stranger by the day.
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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #52 on: November 10, 2012, 03:16:21 PM »
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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #53 on: November 10, 2012, 03:33:06 PM »
Quote from: Dori on November 10, 2012, 12:26:10 PM
On Greta's show last night something clicked.  Jennifer Griffin was on talking about this.
 
The CIA outpost where the 2 dead marines came from was the first to say that it wasn't the video but a planned attack. 

Then the UN Amb. Rice went on tv saying it was the video that caused it, and that she got her info from intelligence reports.

When Petreaus testified before the Senate he said it was the video, ignoring what the outpost had said.

So now he's resigned because of the affair, even though it's been over for several months, and many people knew about it.

Petreaus was supposed to testify again next week, but now his replacement is going to.  (I wonder what they have on that guy)

I've also read where Petreaus is lawyering up, and if subpoenaed, I bet he will take the fifth.

IMO, Petreaus was told to back up Rice's story or else his affair would come out.  Petreaus didn't play ball with the WH when he said it wasn't his department that refused to send help to the consulate, which I'm sure made Obama and Co. angry and not trust him to keep the video story straight when he testified again.  The WH had to be sure that he didn't testify.

Even if the Senate calls Petreaus to testify he's already screwed. If he did Obama's bidding by backing up Rice, that means he lied at the senate hearing, and they don't take kindly to that.

Benghazigate just gets stranger by the day.


Thats an interesting take on the situation. It would take quite a bit more fessing up by the general in order to secure such truth. I would like to know who killed those Americans by refusing to send help.
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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #54 on: November 10, 2012, 03:57:29 PM »
Quote from: txradioguy on November 09, 2012, 11:54:03 PM
Not really. Think about it. If he'd resisted this...they would have fired him...which is really what they did...called him back to active duty and courts martialed him. Then you're talking reduction of rank and loss of pay and benefits.

They've got him by the short hairs..he's gonna do what they want now.

 TRG. I'm hoping your wrong.  He's been making a general's salary for sometime now.  I'm guessing he can surive without his pension.  He's not some NFL receiver that's been buying Bentley's for his "bros in the ghetto"  I have a brother-in-law who was Lt. Col with him at the same time.  This doesn't sound like the man he descibed.  I think the affair is true, but they threatened to out him if he didn't testify the way he wanted so he outted himself.  At least that's what I want to believe.
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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #55 on: November 10, 2012, 04:23:07 PM »
One of the major rules of Life:

At any given moment, a highly intelligent person can become a complete moron.

Many moons ago, at the University of Cincinnati Medical School, an old doctor in his 80's was grousing to his 20-something medical students.

"Well, everything I like in life is now supposed to be bad for you!  My cigars cause cancer, they say.  All the food I like is supposed to kill me now, and of course you all know what sex does to you!"

There was a shocked pause among the all-male listeners, and disbelief!  How could sex be bad for you?!  When did that research come out?!

Finally one short little student says: "Well...what's it do?"

The old doctor, without a trace of a smile, growls: "Young man, it makes you an idiot!"

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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #56 on: November 10, 2012, 04:51:21 PM »
Quote from: Dori on November 10, 2012, 12:26:10 PM
On Greta's show last night something clicked.  Jennifer Griffin was on talking about this.
 
The CIA outpost where the 2 dead marines came from was the first to say that it wasn't the video but a planned attack.  

Then the UN Amb. Rice went on tv saying it was the video that caused it, and that she got her info from intelligence reports.

When Petreaus testified before the Senate he said it was the video, ignoring what the outpost had said.

So now he's resigned because of the affair, even though it's been over for several months, and many people knew about it.

Petreaus was supposed to testify again next week, but now his replacement is going to.  (I wonder what they have on that guy)

I've also read where Petreaus is lawyering up, and if subpoenaed, I bet he will take the fifth.

IMO, Petreaus was told to back up Rice's story or else his affair would come out.  Petreaus didn't play ball with the WH when he said it wasn't his department that refused to send help to the consulate, which I'm sure made Obama and Co. angry and not trust him to keep the video story straight when he testified again.  The WH had to be sure that he didn't testify.

Even if the Senate calls Petreaus to testify he's already screwed. If he did Obama's bidding by backing up Rice, that means he lied at the senate hearing, and they don't take kindly to that.

Benghazigate just gets stranger by the day.


This sounds very plausible, even likely. Obama and his sycophants knew about Petraesus' philandering and when GEN P refused to play ball with the claim that CIA operatives refused to send help to the consulate, that's when they decided that GEN P had to go. BUT, not until after the election. That kind of scandal might have spelled Barry's doom and, of course, they couldn't have that.

Like a lot of folks, I had high regard for GEN P, mostly developed after having read Rick Atkinson's account "In the Company of Soldiers". At the time of the initial invasion of Iraq, Petraeus was but a lowly division commander of the 101st Airborne. Atkinson embedded with the 101st and painted a very positive picture of Petraeus. Petraeus is an intellectual, has a Ph.D., but is one of the most physical smaller guys on the planet. A speed merchant long distance runner, he traditionally smoked his younger officers in PT. Was severely wounded in a training accident when a soldier shot him on the rifle range; the treating physician was none other than Bill Frist, who went on to be a Senator from Tennessee. He made a full recovery from that incident, thereby displaying his toughness.

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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #57 on: November 11, 2012, 08:54:31 AM »
They were saying this morning that Petreaus will not be testifying this week at the Bangahzi hearings. I am calling this a set up. obama told him to resign so he wouldn't have to, and to save his skin. Hopefully they call him to anyhow. You can't tell me that obama didn't knew about what was happening.

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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #58 on: November 11, 2012, 09:34:12 AM »
Quote from: Kyle Ricky on November 11, 2012, 08:54:31 AM
They were saying this morning that Petreaus will not be testifying this week at the Bangahzi hearings. I am calling this a set up. obama told him to resign so he wouldn't have to, and to save his skin. Hopefully they call him to anyhow. You can't tell me that obama knew about what was happening.


Way I see it , someone sent the General a picture of Vince Foster after he shot him self in the back of his head twice and then walked a few yards to throw himself in a gully, then followed up with crime scenes of the CEO whose children were murdered.



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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #59 on: November 11, 2012, 01:17:44 PM »
Quote from: vesta111 on November 11, 2012, 09:34:12 AM

Way I see it , someone sent the General a picture of Vince Foster after he shot him self in the back of his head twice and then walked a few yards to throw himself in a gully, then followed up with crime scenes of the CEO whose children were murdered.





Somehow they convinced him to resign. All in the effort to save obama's skin. I am telling you, he was involved in the attack some how.
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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #60 on: November 11, 2012, 01:45:11 PM »
When you couple this (triple?) with the mysterious firings/reasignments of the Gen. in AFRICOM and the Navy commander near Libya at the time of Benghazi, makes you wonder if there wasn't something else afoot.

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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #61 on: November 12, 2012, 10:24:18 AM »
This Petraeus scandal is growing more legs.

Watching the news this weekend and this morning, it looks like the FBI was notified by a woman; Jill Kelley in the State Dept, and family friend of the Petreaus family, that someone was harassing her and they are saying that it was Patraeus' mistress that did it.  But was it?  This happened last May. 

It was during the FBI's investigation that they discovered the affair.  The mistress is said to have given a speech at at Colorado college where she said that the consulate was holding Libyan prisoners, and some people are now saying that was classified information.

The FBI took Paula Broadmore's computer, and this is how they say they found e-mails between Petreaus and her, and that they found classified info on her computer.

Several people in high office have said that they don't use private e-mail because it's too easy to hack. 

I guess we'll learn more in the coming days, or will we just have a lot of unanswered questions?  And if they are answered, will we be told the truth?





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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #62 on: November 12, 2012, 11:12:15 AM »
Quote from: Dori on November 12, 2012, 10:24:18 AM
This Petraeus scandal is growing more legs.

Watching the news this weekend and this morning, it looks like the FBI was notified by a woman; Jill Kelley in the State Dept, and family friend of the Petreaus family, that someone was harassing her and they are saying that it was Patraeus' mistress that did it.  But was it?  This happened last May. 

It was during the FBI's investigation that they discovered the affair.  The mistress is said to have given a speech at at Colorado college where she said that the consulate was holding Libyan prisoners, and some people are now saying that was classified information.

The FBI took Paula Broadmore's computer, and this is how they say they found e-mails between Petreaus and her, and that they found classified info on her computer.

Several people in high office have said that they don't use private e-mail because it's too easy to hack. 

I guess we'll learn more in the coming days, or will we just have a lot of unanswered questions?  And if they are answered, will we be told the truth?


Look for Oministration stonewalling, deflection, obfuscation directed toward (but never officially at) Congress in the same manner we've seen with Fast and Furious.

And if the Senate is asking the questions, expect to see this tossed under the rug for reasons of "national security."

If the House is asking the questions and if the congressman asking those questions is a pit bull, some additional detail will come out. But the objective of the Oministration is to separate itself from any measure of scandal and then if it looks like they're hip-deep in it, to lie, deflect, and stonewall to the maximum degree possible.

It's what the Chicago thugocracy does.
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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #63 on: November 12, 2012, 06:29:16 PM »
And look who's name comes up...

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Attorney General Eric Holder was notified in late summer that then-CIA Director David Petraeus' name had surfaced in the FBI probe that ultimately uncovered Petraeus' affair, raising questions about whether Holder would have -- or should have -- informed President Obama.
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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #64 on: November 12, 2012, 06:47:45 PM »
Obama, the Democraps and the media will primarily concentrate on Petraeus extra marital affair to cover up the  the Benghazi murders and national security issue. The media will be all in the distortion of the facts.
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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #65 on: November 12, 2012, 07:11:49 PM »
Quote from: Lacarnut on November 12, 2012, 06:47:45 PM
Obama, the Democraps and the media will primarily concentrate on Petraeus extra marital affair to cover up the  the Benghazi murders and national security issue. The media will be all in the distortion of the facts.

Sadly, you are right.
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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #66 on: November 12, 2012, 07:32:03 PM »
FBI Deemed Petraeus Affair Part of Criminal, Not Intel Probe
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-deemed-petraeus-affair-part-criminal-intel-probe/story?id=17696177#.UKGiezDbgZR

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The FBI's focus was on whether laws were broken, in this case whether federal cyber-harassment statutes were violated. The sources emphasized that Petraeus himself was never the focus of the investigation, nor did it turn up evidence he broke any law.
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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #67 on: November 13, 2012, 08:03:19 AM »
I just figured out I knew Broadwell years ago, in Charlotte NC.  My nephew says the FBI searched her house last night- took her files & computers.
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« Reply #68 on: November 13, 2012, 10:34:52 AM »


Man, that's like the Clinton and Monica photo! 
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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #69 on: November 13, 2012, 01:32:35 PM »
Quote from: Gina on November 13, 2012, 10:34:52 AM


Man, that's like the Clinton and Monica photo! 


Holly isn't unattractive. I saw a pic of her when they were dating.  She does need to lose weight and get a make-over.

Wives letting themselves go is as old a story as husbands who cheat.


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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #70 on: November 13, 2012, 01:43:02 PM »
Quote from: Dori on November 13, 2012, 01:32:35 PM

Holly isn't unattractive. I saw a pic of her when they were dating.  She does need to lose weight and get a make-over.

Wives letting themselves go is as old a story as husbands who cheat.




To be honest, I thought she was his mom. 
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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #71 on: November 13, 2012, 01:45:24 PM »
Quote from: Gina on November 13, 2012, 01:43:02 PM


To be honest, I thought she was his mom. 

Petraeus is 60.
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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #72 on: November 13, 2012, 02:21:43 PM »
Oh wow...... You mean the MSM is actually going to cover this?

NY Times: FBI Agent Suspected ‘Politically Motivated Cover-Up’ of Petraeus Case to Protect Obama

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ny-times-fbi-agent-suspected-politically-motivated-cover-up-of-petraeus-case-to-protect-obama/
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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #73 on: November 13, 2012, 03:03:35 PM »
Quote from: Dori on November 13, 2012, 02:21:43 PM
Oh wow...... You mean the MSM is actually going to cover this?

NY Times: FBI Agent Suspected ‘Politically Motivated Cover-Up’ of Petraeus Case to Protect Obama

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ny-times-fbi-agent-suspected-politically-motivated-cover-up-of-petraeus-case-to-protect-obama/

What a shocker!
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Re: David Petreaus Resigns
« Reply #74 on: November 13, 2012, 03:08:25 PM »
Quote from: Dori on November 13, 2012, 02:21:43 PM
Oh wow...... You mean the MSM is actually going to cover this?

NY Times: FBI Agent Suspected ‘Politically Motivated Cover-Up’ of Petraeus Case to Protect Obama

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ny-times-fbi-agent-suspected-politically-motivated-cover-up-of-petraeus-case-to-protect-obama/

For maybe a minute...
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