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Topic: FBI´s Petraeus Probe Faces Inquiry |
FBI´s Petraeus Probe Faces Inquiry
Wall Street Journal, by Josh Mitchell and Jessica Holzer
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Posted By:earlybird, 11/11/2012 2:06:05 PM
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| Washington—The top Senate Democrat on intelligence issues said Sunday she would investigate the Federal Bureau of Investigation´s handling of the inquiry into Central Intelligence Agency chief David Petraeus, including why top lawmakers weren´t informed of the investigation before it became public. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said on "Fox News Sunday" that she learned of the Petreaus investigation on Friday when her staff began getting press inquiries on the matter. She said she and other committee leaders are routinely made aware of investigations involving national security prior
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Comments:
Will she go anywhere with this or will O&Co convince her to back off?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 11/11/2012 2:10:36 PM (No. 9007396)
President Zero don´t have to follow no stinkin´ laws or operating rules. It is naive to think otherwise.
He has gotten away with his fraudulent presidency, and has been rewarded with a second term.
We are a nation of enablers.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Coy860, 11/11/2012 2:19:40 PM (No. 9007410)
Maybe she is the "other woman" LOL
OR another female in Congress ??
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
scribe35, 11/11/2012 2:26:45 PM (No. 9007414)
Looks to me as though the entire Obama administration is disfunctional.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Davids918, 11/11/2012 2:27:47 PM (No. 9007421)
It was a "need to know" and I presume you didn´t need to know, Diane.
I´m sure you´re outraged but won´t do anything about it.
Republicans should keep pushing the notion of a cover-up.
The media won´t push the issue, but the people will keep wondering, and doubting the Democrats care about the truth.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
WestCoastCowboy, 11/11/2012 2:27:49 PM (No. 9007422)
You´d think a person like Feinstein would be po´d about this. She can´t want to be taken as a potted plant by Barry O admin. But who knows, the dems seem to only care about power and not what´s right.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
pickle1, 11/11/2012 2:31:01 PM (No. 9007425)
ROTFLOL You bet. Another trick by dems to get your hopes up. Don´t buy. It´s better to stand up and not back off.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
AnnG, 11/11/2012 2:36:49 PM (No. 9007433)
How did these emails get released and why? We can´t get any answers about Benghazi , but we have all of the intimate details of this affair out there. I feel this was done to keep protecting Obama and even Hillary from their screw ups.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
curious1, 11/11/2012 2:37:01 PM (No. 9007434)
The libtards are wanting to get out in front of this and control it so it goes nowhere they don´t want it to go. The way they jumped on this means there´s loads more to it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 11/11/2012 2:41:12 PM (No. 9007441)
Diane always comes late to every party. Last summer she called for `hearings` on the high price of gasoline. She does this every time prices rise dramatically even though Calif has a closed petroleum system. She`ll be the 1st to call for hearings if al-queda ever succeeds in exploding a dirty bomb.
We live in a land run by morons.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
M Stuart, 11/11/2012 2:50:23 PM (No. 9007459)
Diane is a libtard who takes her cues from ValJar and 0bama. She won´t do SQUAT!
We all need to tell her that!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
nevernaught, 11/11/2012 3:17:01 PM (No. 9007504)
Is this what 12,000 additional FBI agents were hired to do. I thought that was the job of Hollywood snitch columnists.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mitzi, 11/11/2012 3:26:26 PM (No. 9007532)
I don´t think she actually said that ... my interpretation is that she said it was the "committee´s" decision about any inquiries in this matter.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Theeo, 11/11/2012 4:18:55 PM (No. 9007618)
BOHICA, and again, and again. How many probes before we become like the muslims bending over five times daily awaiting a visit from allah?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 11/11/2012 4:48:23 PM (No. 9007680)
1) Probe initiated by WH after Petraeus began questioning illegal activites.
2) Broadwell selected to sedce the general. Although her husband accepted the mission, he later regretgted it.
3) Kelley selected to pretend to be the source to the FBI... so trail won´t lead to WH set up.
Both women are democrats.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
saryden, 11/11/2012 6:35:05 PM (No. 9007856)
Chair of the committee to "make shore" the Dem candidate was a legal one, Feinstein could not find his birth certificate, so she ad-libbed it. America is paying the price.
What a farce we live in!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
pickle1, 11/11/2012 9:12:12 PM (No. 9008060)
Oh please.
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