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Topic: Justice Knew about Petraeus’s Affair This Summer |
Justice Knew about Petraeus’s Affair This Summer
National Review Online, by Patrick Brennan
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 11/12/2012 7:18:16 AM
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| The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have new stories out tonight about the scandal which led to David Petraeus’s resignation on Friday, both hitting on one interesting point: Petraeus’s affair was known at the top levels of the Justice Department months ago. The Times explains that “high-level officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department were notified in the late summer.” The Journal story goes further, saying that Eric Holder himself “knew about the email link to Mr. Petraeus as far back as late summer,” timing the NYT deliberately leaves unclear.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Catherine, 11/12/2012 7:27:58 AM (No. 9008405)
I don´t get it. Clinton had sex in the oval office while on the phone with senators discussing sending our troops to war. The left tittered and snicked at how adorable this was. So why is someone in the CIA virtually fired for an affair? Will anyone speak up? If the senators and congresscritters don´t do something, the US will cease to exist. It´s close to that now.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
spincut, 11/12/2012 7:29:30 AM (No. 9008407)
Gosh, it´s just amazing how much information about this situation is coming out so quickly and easily. It´s almost like this information is being put out there purposely, in order to destroy Gen. Petraeus´s credibility. It´s almost like someone knew the General was going to blow the whistle on Obama´s treasonous behavior in Libya and decided he must be taken out. But that could never happen, the MSM would never be a party to something like that.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Janjan, 11/12/2012 7:31:25 AM (No. 9008410)
Once again Obama denies any knowledge. Besides Jarrett, who is running the Executive Branch?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 11/12/2012 7:31:52 AM (No. 9008412)
This story is getting stuffed and puffed and plussed up and inflated so that it will be big enough and complicated enough to cover the crimes of Barky & Co.
The media doesn´t do complexity so the story goes away.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
fireman28, 11/12/2012 7:35:38 AM (No. 9008415)
#2 has it correct. Just who is leaking all this info?
Just like Fast & Furious, Holder knew; but Obama pulls a Sgt Schultz - I know nothing.
Lends even more credibility that the situation room photo during Osama was also fake.
I believe Obama really does know nothing. The people around him are pulling the strings, mainly Axelgrease and Jarrett.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Spidey, 11/12/2012 7:38:15 AM (No. 9008417)
Huge dereliction of duty when state secrets could be at stake.Maybe Holder´s resigning to duck out on this.
What if any effect could this have had on the election outcome?
These radicals have no respect for the most obvious duties the government has.All they care about is having the power.
We still have another slew of job killing EPA and HHS regs coming,not to mention banks.
If you´re a white business or mortgage applicant,you´d better have some rich relatives for back up.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
nonsense, 11/12/2012 7:39:16 AM (No. 9008419)
Poor Propagandist Axelclod must be tirelessly spinning. His new duties at the newly formed (with a huge giverment gift of millions) Chicago school of Propaganda for stupid young skulls full of mush, plus his destruction of Petraeus. Evil never seems to take a rest.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
msjena, 11/12/2012 7:44:57 AM (No. 9008426)
And Eric Holder kept this national security issue--not to mention hot gossip--item under his hat and didn´t tell Obama. Right.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Freeloader, 11/12/2012 7:45:12 AM (No. 9008428)
The high achieving General David Howell Petraeus´s ( 39th out of 832 graduates in West Point´s Class of 1974 ) biggest mistake was accepting a high position in the most corrupt administration in American History.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
pineledger, 11/12/2012 7:45:33 AM (No. 9008429)
Imagine this: "General Petraeus, are you saying that during your conversation with the Resident on the evening of 9/11/12 it was your sense that the Resident was three sheets to the wind?"
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Galtoid, 11/12/2012 7:51:43 AM (No. 9008439)
This might not be restricted to Benghazi. Who in this country´s top levels of security would have the best access to everything related to BHO´s history, documents, passports, etc.? And wasn´t there some talk that Patraeus was considering running for prez on the GOP ticket? He had to be stopped. And the timing had to work perfectly.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
planetgeo, 11/12/2012 7:56:31 AM (No. 9008444)
This was all done on Chicago time. Not when it needed to be done, but saved until they needed it the most.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Nimby, 11/12/2012 8:08:58 AM (No. 9008458)
None of these news organizations have any moral authority to bring up Petreaus´ affair. These blowhards kept quiet about the goings on till elections were over. Now they come out crawling from the woodwork
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
birddog, 11/12/2012 8:27:58 AM (No. 9008486)
Hmmmm.... FBI snoopin´ on CIA and then leaks like a sieve. bet THAT helps "Build Trust" between the agencies
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
EnsignO´Toole, 11/12/2012 8:28:30 AM (No. 9008490)
#9 I think hit the nail on the head - Petraeus should never have accepted the CIA position in Obama´s Administration. His wife Holly is also in the Administration. For all their smarts, they did a really dumb thing. When will people wake up - this Dem Resident is not like Carter, LBJ, JFK, Truman, or others way back. The Dem party was co-opted by George Soros and the likes of Valerie Jarrett, who probably takes her orders from GS.
When this is all over, and I believe it will be sometime - these Evil people must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
General George Washington had traitors executed. The Obama crowd are no better - it´s just Americans are stupidly forgiving. Personally I´d vote for a public hanging, especially for GS (why is he not behind bars?) and Valerie Jarrett - a probable Iranian spy and sympathizer. Maybe a hanging a la Mussolini and his mistress.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
krause, 11/12/2012 8:47:15 AM (No. 9008527)
First McCrystal, now Petraeus. A message to Generals to toe Obama´s line.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 11/12/2012 8:58:14 AM (No. 9008550)
#15, could it be that petraeus was blackmailed by Val Jarrett into taking the CIA position, and he was there as the sacrificial anode? (obscure reference to saltwater boating) They would have known that they could dump petraeus whenever there was a good enough reason. And Benghazi was the good enough reason.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
rochow, 11/12/2012 9:48:20 AM (No. 9008670)
No wonder, Patraeus did not open his mouth about the Benghazi scandal, later threw zippy under the bus and lied when deposed by the House Intelligence Committee! I wonder who threatened who first?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Rumblehog, 11/12/2012 7:39:34 PM (No. 9009854)
Why am I not surprised Erik the Red was in on this from day one? Is Holder still held in contempt by Congress, as much as he is by a majority of real Americans?
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