The Real Housewives of Centcom or Who Should Solve Benghazi?
Perhaps if Obama and Holder were themselves caught playing around (separately or together) it would finally get the attention of the mainstream media but, as we recall, it took them months, or was it years, to report, let alone investigate, the execrable activities of one John Edwards, vice-presidential and presidential candidate.
Which leads me to a modest proposal. The people who should be put in charge of unraveling Benghazigate are — ta-dum — the folks at the National Enquirer. They know the terrain, have a much better record for ferreting out the truth than the MSM and are far more courageous, willing to go anywhere (The Beverly Hilton men’s room) and do anything to get the answers.
For it is answers we need and are not getting. At this point we must depend on Dianne Feinstein, a woman whose devotion to democracy and the two-party system was so great she wouldn’t even debate her opponent in this month’s election. A lifetime liberal, will she be unbiased enough to look beyond the sex farce to the reality behind the “reality show”? Well, she is seventy-nine and if not now, when?
Still. I’m not betting on it. Perhaps if Jennifer Griffin at Fox pulls out some more information, maybe she’ll be forced into it. But if not, I’m going with the National Enquirer. They’re just the people to cut through the “fog of war.”
The truth doesn’t matter. The 50% who re-elected Obama don’t care about the truth and won’t believe anything bad about him. Excuses will be made. Just like the parents of an out of control child, they’ll make excuses or just not notice bad behavior.
The 48% who didn’t vote for Obama are the minority and only have influence to the extent you can shame the majority, and this current majority can not be shamed.
The answers are in Chicago
Open message for Rep. Darrell Issa, Re: John Chase of the Chicago Tribune
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/11/13/open-message-for-rep-darrell-issa-re-john-chase-of-the-chicago-tribune/
What’s the problem. So the ambassador is not ‘optimal’. Obama was re-elected thanks to the media shoving everything under the rug and the voters are delusional. Everything is perfect with the world or at least normal.
I hesitate at putting my name on this post because I don’t want to look like a conspiracy nut
But….
Could all of this be President Obama’s way of getting “friendly” generals in to positions of command within the military for when he promotes himself to Emperor of the Americas here in a few years? If the military commanders are on his side, taking over the country would be much easier.
You are not conspiracy addled. Not at all.
There are too many questions, re the ‘exquisitely opportune’ timing of these ‘delicate outings’, and so much more. At the end of it all, the Pyromaniac-in-Chief’s machinations, as well as his surrogates, will come full circle -http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/11/13/covering-up-benghazigate-exquisite-political-timing-sacrificing-a-cia-director-to-boot-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/.
But meanwhile the media is feeding off of this woman or that woman. Nevertheless, if the media had any integrity, they would look VERY closely into the Lebanese background of the ‘other woman’.
And if anyone believes Lebanese Christians are not implanted, on America’s shores, by Hizbullah agents, then this blogger has a bridge for sale too.
My physician when I had my son was from Lebanon. He was a graduate of the American University and his diploma was split down the middle; half in English and half in some foreign language. He attended the Congregational church, which I know is scorned by some “Christians” as being too liberal. He was a wonderful doctor and my son who was a breech birth, was born without any problems. We never talked about politics but I would never think he was some sort of spy who infiltrated this country.
Jefferson, it looks even worse than what you think. I read that Obama is forming several “security battalions” within the US Marine Corps for use only in putting down “civil disturbances” of Americans within the US.
This is the same as those MVD troops that were used within the old Soviet Union by the Kremlin to quell civil uprisings.
If anyone out there knows more about this, especially those of you in The Corps, please enlighten us.
What is going on? Don’t get waylayed by the sexcapades. This is how the Chicago machine works. This is how Obama gets elected and retains power by smearing any opposition with scandals. One possibility is that Petraeus went to Benghazi on his own to investigate what happened over there. Obama, FBI, Holder all of them knew about his affair with this woman months ago. They probably knoew about it before he even became CIA Director. Why is it coming out now? Perhaps because Obozo doesn’t want Petraeus to tell what he actually knows about what went on in Benghazi. I think this is so explosive it would make Watergate look like a tea party. All these generals are being set up and blackmailed. I think there have been four so far. Do your own research and see how many of the top brass are being replaced, demoted, etc. I believe there were arms being given to arab terrorists by way of the muslim brotherhood. Obama entertained the brotherhood in the White House while telling Netanyahu to get lost. Stevens knew of these arms deals. Now he is dead. CIA guys knew. They are dead. Petraeus knows of this and they are trying to completely discredit him. This whole thing is so evil and wretched, and of course, it could only come from these criminals we have running this country. Get ready we are in for a very bumpy ride.
“They probably knoew about it before he even became CIA Director.” That would be a neat trick, since the affair didn’t even start until after he went to the CIA.
You think so, huh?
Broadwell and Petraeus met several years ago following a speech the general gave at Harvard’s Kennedy School, where Broadwell was working on her master’s degree. Broadwell would go on to work closely with Petraeus on his biography, titled, “All In”, even accompanying him for grueling runs around the CIA complex to develop material. In addition, a relationship developed. Though it has reportedly been over for awhile, the FBI investigation brought it into public focus after Broadwell’s bizarre behavior.
She had access long before his CIA stint. People around him couldn’t understand the access. Now they do.
Hey Vlad,
Check out the picture in this link. This was taken BEFORE he was confirmed to be CIA Director. Broadwell looks quite adoringly at Petraeus as the caption says. And she did it right in front of his wife.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/paula-broadwell-caught-ogling-general-petraeus-article-1.1200669
If you like a twist on the conspiracy. He was a potential presidential candidate, and she accomplished her mission.
If you think a few generals, a handful of Colonels, and a few thousand LTCs/MAJs/CPTs would help Obama extend his presidency beyond that allowed by the Constitution, then you don’t know the military. Such actions are possible, heck, common, in third world countries where soldiers hold their allegiance to commanders, many who have served in the same command position for decades, and used that position to get favors, give favors, and become the paymaster. Such is not the case in the US Armed Forces, where commanders come and go within a two-year period, have no influence on pay, and only partial influence on promotions for a majority of those in their command (promotions for all officers and senior enlisted are done by central boards). Whether by design of by default, our military is not set up as political muscle.
I am a patriot, so it pains me to point out that the US military isn’t the most competent nor smart force in the world. Anything’s possible now.
A certain amount of competence is required to pull off a successful coo-detante. Usually it is the military that is more competent than the administration/government.
The gov/military can never take over the US- the citizens have all the guns. Besides, our kids “are” the miltary. Think it through; who’s kid is going to open fire on their fellow citizens? Ain’t gonna EVER happen.
Why do you think gun control is so important to lefties? They know that has to happen “first”. Then they can big government us to death.
While whores are the easiest way to corrupt generals, I would suggest that this bunch was corrupt from the get-go. That’s why they had such successful careers.
Obama is pulling an Erdogan and purging the military
“Even when he was the C.I.A. director, Petraeus’s ego was so wrapped up in being a shiny military idol that, according to The Washington Post, he recently surprised guests at a D.C. dinner when he arrived to speak wearing his medals on the lapel of his suit jacket. ” Maureen Dowd
I learn from 2000 year old text. Saint Paul when the people were calling him a god tore off all his cloths and said: I am a man just like you not so for the rif raf who repeat the same mistakes over and over and over again destroying their nation
Maureen Dowd is not the best reference to use. Her judgment is suspect.
Infidelity. A 60-year old man, in very good shape, looking good, whose wife who he most likely loves and respects … away from home so much of the time … flattered and adored by attractive young women throwing themselves at him … giving him a sense of excitement and hero-worship when the future holds old age at his door … What percentage of the male population have been perfectly faithful — even in the seemingly most ideal of situations? Who can really know what goes on in the personal lives and hearts of other people? Why or what the reasons for their very personal behavior or failings might be? Do we presume to know what has gone on — or not — in the bedroom of a man and his wife? Or what the depth of his feelings for the “other” woman might be…. Infidelity. It’s a failing. But it’s a personal failing, not really a public one.
Nevertheless … when such a man is the head of our Intelligence Service … it most definately could lead to security issues … and put the entire nation in danger. They are not permitted to indulge personal needs, no matter how intense they may be.
I wonder what the judgment would be if he were single or divorced? Are romances out of the question for men of such responsibilities?
In this case, however, I do have to say that what is worse than the actual fact of an “affair” … is his choice of such an incredibly stupid woman. And to further ridiculous choices on his part — to write emails!
It seemed to us he was a brilliant man. We were wrong. It’s frightening to see the array of “leaders” we have — who are just plain stupid.
Very well put. Aside from being so stupid as to use a gmail account to send hot sexy emails to his pumped up, ripped girlfriend, there’s another ethical point to be made. Broadwell received an enormous advance to write her biography on Petraeus, and the two of them–together–colluded to basically defraud the publisher and the reading public. Of all the recent publishing scandals about lying about one’s past, this is something else entirely–but just as slimy: that the head of the CIA would help ghost write his own hagiographic biography, authored by a married mother of two who he was sleeping with, puts him in a whole new category of dirtbag.
Hell, I’da nailed her if I had the chance. But then again, I’m pretty stupid.
Hell, I’m trying for a threesome with both women!
an honorable man would have rejected her apparent advances
Over the years when I’ve heard, “an honorable man would have rejected her apparent advances,” or such, the speaker was unlikely to have his honor put to the test.
That is why, knowing my weakness to temptation, I made the choice to be a fat nobody instead of a trim, fit military hero. I hope my wife appreciates the sacrifices I have made for her.
Thanks. I really needed a good laugh.
To be fair, and I’m not excusing anyone, history has shown that the mightiest have succumbed to the wiles of alluring women. Falls in line with “the oldest profession” if you will.
However, it also serves as testimony that for all the uber-intellectual positing, the incredibly high-thinking morality of the left, the criticisms from same against the morality of the right, that one again human behavior is proven to be the weakest link in any endeavor. By legitimizing poor behavior, the left has weakened the already fragile wall that protects us from descent into operating solely on instinct and rutting like four-legged animals.
Infidelity in marriage is often the indicator of the potential for infidelity in other things. This is because the person engaged in the activity has demonstrated a willingness to engage in dishonesty rather than face the truth. The motivations against confronting the truth can be both human and selfish but are always the result of fear. Fear of discovery, fear of hurting others, fear of losing the “fun part” and more.
Now Petraeus is clearly involved in a mess and though I’m no fan of “would’a, could’a, should’a”, had he not engaged in the activity, none of this would be happening. So, it begs the question, did the administration pick people based on what dirt they had on them in order to get them to do their bidding or face the recriminations of being revealed? I think so.
But then they wouldn’t want him “outed”, would they. Keep his secret, maybe he’s under their control. Unless outing him was not intended by the White House. Now he can tell the truth about Benghazi, no? Maybe not, if they can bring charges against him. Complicated.
What’s not complicated is that we have a right to know why help wasn’t sent to Benghazi. How many hours for Jets to get there from our bases in Italy? We had video and audio and knew the situation on the ground. Don’t let Obama get away with no answers.
Mr. Simon: Important note for the chick file: Ms Kelly is blousy (as in ‘big girl’s blouse’, not blowsy — unless you mean slutty, which you might); and Broadwell seems to be leggy (though also possibly blowsy but not very blousy).
There, that’s better, how sensitive and inclusive the trouser department can be!
Expecting a Gloria Allred sighting any day now, likely alongside Ms. Bedwell, er, Broadwell.
Romney could have gotten to the bottom of Benghazi if he had challenged Obama and Crowley during the second debate. He could have gone for the jugular and won the debate and the election. Instead he decided to look Presidential, and lost the debate and the election.
Betwixt and Between
What does she mean
Stay away from my man
But she has two in hand
One really belongs to another
But is such a fascinating lover
Yet there is another complication
A Pretty woman with gran tetons
Threaten her and she will cower
Broadwell is the harlot of the hour
How simple the game of love seems
If you have a ganeral’s top secret team
Integrity and honor be damned
They parade like cheap whores
Once they’d have been banned
Now book deals open doors
“The people who should be put in charge of unraveling Benghazigate are — ta-dum — the folks at the National Enquirer.”
Not a bad idea. Remember the movie “Men in Black”? They read the tabloids every day, because those were the only newspapers publishing what everyone else thought was nonsense, but was really true. Compared to the MSM, I’m sure they’d do an outstanding job.
I have been hopng for some time that The National Enquirer would take more interest in the many scandals of this administration, starting with our Prez and Holder.
But then, almost any investigation is outstanding, compared to none!
Well, given the almost done status of the Long March through the Institutions, it does make perfect sense that the military would be in the takedown sights.
One comment though on the 50% vs the minority. The minority includes most of this country’s knowledge of what metaphorically constitutes seed corn. It knows where it is stored and why it matters and what happens when it goes away. In the predator state scenario we are evolving towards, one side will have no idea that it is consuming seed corn with its martinis and birth control and “I Heart Equality” bumper stickers.
Totally unprepared for the tsunami they are creating.
During the Cold War, Heinlein observed that for the first time in history
a very hot Global Thermonuclear War would select for survival of those with
the smarts to prepare for it, rather than sending them off to be butchered
on the battlefield.
This time the natural selection will be caused by economic collapse rather than nuclear war, but the rule holds true; ‘Luck’ favors the prepared mind.’
It is no news that a powerful and accomplished man who spends most of his time away from his family might be tempted and fall.
The real story is the profound corruption of the American military leadership that has occurred over the last twenty years. Our generals have become politically correct with respect to gays and women in the military and with respect to Islam. They are imposing alien values and a false consciousness that is destroying the military culture, undermining effectiveness and costing lives.
Petraeus was one of these politicized generals. Perhaps the moral corruption penetrated his personal life.
Actually this sideshow is a blessing in disguise. The fact it’s a sex scandal means the MSM is going to be all over it as a matter of course and thus will be drawn into covering Benghazigate despite their best intentions otherwise.
Also I think the fact it involves Petraeus is shocking for many people, regardless of how they feel about sex or security. I can’t recall a CIA director in my lifetime who commanded the same trust and confidence in his integrity from the general public. Deservedly or not, he’s achieved the same stature as Colin Powell.
The only reason Watergate looms so large is because there were nationally televised Congressional hearings, (the first of their kind IIRC, and which meant in those days before cable & c-Span that they preempted everything else on television) which generated a steady stream of print journalism all by themselves. The actual burglary and coverup are a bad joke compared to what happened in Benghazi and and the administration’s subsequent lying. If we ever get to the bottom of this mess, it may well be because the general’s girlfriend started a catfight. Stranger things have happened.
btw I’d be very surprised if the Inquirer isn’t already on the case
oops – should be Enquirer
I agree, Mary. Just what I wanted to say.
I do not think we will get to the bottom of this. The hearings will not be televised and much will not be revealed to the public — with a claim of “national security”. The only way we will discover more is with thorough investigative reporting and probing of those at the centre, but “off the record” so nothing can be proven. What has happened to General Ham? Is he still among the living? Gauette?
Agreed.
Worst case, they’ll simply neglect the story and it will go away. Or it’ll get lost in the news cycle as more interesting stories arise. (Speaking of which, anybody heard anything about Trayvon or gun-walking lately? I didn’t think so.)
Best case, there will be a massive brouhaha of the Clinton/Lewinsky variety. Everyone will get excited for a while, there may even be fireworks in Congress. The media will give us many sensational reports about it, but nothing will come of it in the end.
We’re talking about the news media – Obama’s lapdogs.
Much like Bush, most of these Generals are traitors to this country and to the men and women in uniform. Our wonderful young men and women are sent to areas of the world, not to do their jobs, but as political, expendable pawns in the corrupt political game. Obama had this gift of the corrupt generals handed to him to continue the game. (Repukes in office – Gen Betrayus, Demoncommies in office – our guy Patraeus, until politically expendable). Failure to realize that they are playing with scorpions (Dems, Muslims, etc), means they are unfit for command. Honorable men would step down. Unfortunate for the true American heroes in the military.
The National Enquirer has come a long way from the days of alien abductions. I’m with Roger on this one. If anybody can get to the, shall we say, bottom? of this, they can. They will literally, ahem, snatch the truth out of the, well wherever the truth may lay.
There are two other General Officers in this story – the 2 who tried to save the Americans in Benghazi.
Africom commanding officer U.S. General Carter Ham – relieved of command on 9-11 for trying use assets at his disposal to mount a rescue.
http://www.teapartytribune.com/2012/10/29/rogueu-s-general-arrested-for-activating-special-forces-teams-ignoring-libya-stand-down-order/
Admiral Charles Gaouette was relieved from command of a carrier-battle-group under similar circumstances.
http://beforeitsnews.com/obama/2012/10/presstv-com-claims-admiral-gaouette-under-suspicion-for-planning-overthrow-of-obama-if-re-elected-2445344.html
If Congress really wants to find out what happened, these are the guys to interview.
Luckily Obama’s purge is by character assassination and forced retirements rather than a firing squad. Our generals might gather up the tattered remnants of their personal honor and patriotism and fight to get the truth out. One can hope.
This is more than Benghazi – it’s the Van Jones plan – down to the fueling racial discord, class envy, government dependency, destroying faith in the police and military, while feverishly working to collapse the US economy. Top down, bottom up, inside up. Why don’t we recognize his step-by-plan in action? Fundamental Transformation anyone???
That’s two heavy sites! Everyone should read them.
“Africom commanding officer U.S. General Carter Ham – relieved of command on 9-11 for trying use assets at his disposal to mount a rescue.”
Unlikely. He’s currently running African Command. I just read an article about statements he made to the press today.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/14/libya-attack-al-qaeda_n_2131359.html
He’s already out except for show. Like Petraeus, he’s playing nice to keep his pension.
His replacement was announced a month ago.
http://www.stripes.com/news/obama-to-nominate-army-gen-rodriguez-to-lead-africom-1.193564
Where were the moralizers when the ultimate keeper of the nation’s secrets was getting BJ’s from a barely legal intern in the 1990′s? Hmmmmmmm?
This stinks like David Axelrod from start to finish.
Well, I may be straying into paranoia and conspiracy, but I think that this situation has little to do with infidelities and email and such. I think it is focused around Obama, that pathological narcissist, and his attempt to control and even nullify the US Military.
With regard to the infidelies – the Petraeus affair was long over and if anyone believes that, in the bubble that is Washington, these are not the norm rather than the unusual – they are naive. I’ll include 75% of past presidents and other key figures in government. Even the emails from Allen (another Afghan general), were, it seems, about family and friends. None of this is worthy of such intense FBI and WH interest.
I consider that Benghazi is the ‘flickering flame’ of a deep conflict between Obama and his BlackShirts, the FBI, against the Military and the CIA. Benghazi was a massacre – that was both enabled and not prevented by Obama, who, just before his re-election, would not permit his narrative that ‘Islamic terrorism no longer exists because I killed Bin Laden’ to be harmed by Reality.
The CIA knows very well that Al Qaeda not merely exists but is getting stronger. Obama was the one who authorized No Help when the Benghazi CIA asked for help. And then, had his minions go out and, as usual, blame the US (that video). Petraeus at first, obliged Obama by going along with this false story, but, when Obama tried to throw the whole thing into the CIA lap, by claiming that it wasn’t the WH that refused help (I think it was!)…well, Petraeus stood by the CIA and issued his own report that the CIA DID NOT refuse to help. Petraeus threw it back to Obama. That finished him. No-one stands up to Obama and lives for another day.
Obama moved very quickly, building his surface case of sex-and-scandal, waiting until after the election and than – bam. He took out Petraeus, and has gone after Allen in Afghanistan. And others.
My view, paranoid as it is, is that the Military loathes Obama. And Obama can’t handle anyone who is not a sycophant. His agenda is to destroy them.
To me – that’s what it’s about. Obama is using the FBI as his gang.
Will he get away with it? Who does the Military have to help them? The media are, as intended, happily focused on the soap opera, ignoring the real story of Benghazi and the White House and Obama.
As always, you are astute and on the right track, ETAB.
But, I think it is deeper than this.
Obama’s “Flexible Second Term” will have him doing the Tyranny Medley.
“Putin On The Rich” (with apologies to Irving Berlin), I’m Soros, So Soros, (with apologies to Brenda Lee) and Deep In the Heart of Taxes (with apologies to June Hershey)
As he methodically dismantles the military, imposes by fiat all manner of dictatorial constraints on free market activities, compiles foreign money through fraudulent credit card transactions, refuses to put forth a budget to be scored and throws our allies overboard…of the ships he no longer needs to defend a country he has thrown open to unfettered invasion…we will finally…finally…come to the realization that the Democratic Party is not interested in democracy. They are to the left of Socialist and in the grips of small c communists.
Betrayal is afoot.
We cannot save a nation for whom every day is April 1st.
We here all make apologies for seeing a conspiracy. We have been beaten like stray dogs. We flinch at the notion that we can recognize what is happening, but have Pavlovian reflex to deny it…or be peer-punched into submission.
The coup is upon us. We are turning Socialist…and beyond. Against our will, without consent…based upon a conspiracy of lies and distortion.
We have been betrayed by traitors. And the April 1st fools who wallow in their ignorance. We are dying as a free nation, ETAB. First they seized the media, Hollywood and academia. Then, they seized the economy. Now, they are seizing the military.
Good night, my dear friend. We have neither the courage, the will, the skills or the determination to resist. Certainly not lead by lillypad Republicans. We need a hero. And, there are precious few to be found.
Exactly, cfb. Obama is moving now, into tyranny. That’s his nature; he’s pathological and needs to control.
Notice that with the economy – he’s still Blaming Bush. He ignores that it’s been His Economy for four years and that HE raised the debt by more than all the previous presidents collectively; that HE didn’t use that much vaunted Stimulus for infrastructure but to pay off his union buddies in the public service so they could keep their jobs. And HE attacked small businesses with taxes and regulations. And HE is crippling the economy, reducing small businesses even further in size and scope by his Health Care. And HE and his EPA regulations are smothering business. HE has encouraged more and more people to go on food stamps; 47 million at last count. HE has encouraged illegals to vote by refusing ID cards. HE has divided the nation into Identity Blocs, each adversarial, and subsidized each by special funding and rules just for them…and so on.
And now, he’s after the military; he’ll try to destroy them as a force with honor and integrity. And use the FBI as his BlackShirt enforcers.
Notice his total contempt of Congress. If they don’t pass what he wants, he does it by Executive Fiat anyway.
I say – don’t let him raise taxes. If he refuses to Reform Taxes, which is the correct tactic, then – let Obama and the Democrats implode the economy.
Obama reminds me of a certain leader of the 1930′s in Germany.
Paranoid? Now why would you ever say that? Fevered, too.
“No-one stands up to Obama and lives for another day.” — Chilling. I am also concerned about the sudden removal of Ham and Gaouette. Was there a coup in the works (as suggested by some blog account) — or is this a systematic removal of top Military to be replaced by people who’s loyalties may be elsewhere. Conspiracy theory for sure — but we all know that some conspiracies turn out to be true.
Exactly. Those other generals, all removed or demoted – by Obama. And for trivialities.
But meanwhile, the really serious issues of the Obama refusal to provide more security for the Benghazi consulate before the attack, his refusal to assist them when they were under attack – these are muddied, denied, diverted and ignored.
Meanwhile, the cover up and whitewashing of Obama and the WH continues, with focus on Holder as ‘not telling Obama that Petraeus was having an affair’ until after the election. Rubbish. Trying to set up Obama as pure and uninvolved is garbage. I maintain that this is basic Obama-Chicago-Axelrod politics, which is to destroy anyone who is not ‘in your gang’.
And the military and the CIA were not part of Obama’s gang. They both acknowledge that Islamist terrorism is real. Obama rejects this. They both consider his actions in the MENA naive and dangerous. He is attempting to reduce their budget and thus, destroying their capacity to work – as evidenced in Benghazi when he refused, both before and after the massacre, to assist them.
It’s a basic fight between an Executive Branch that has gone out of accountability and control…and our military.
It doesn’t matter.
Whatever truth should miraculously get to the light of day… the solid majority of brainwashed idiots would not care.
No one is saying this. So I will.
The mans the head of the CIA and he can’t pull off a clandestine affair. Should be fire for incompetence.
So, let’s all jump on the Oprah bandwagon, yeah?
How’s about asking some other questions…like…
Has anyone noticed how many staff level military officers have been replaced, lately? Not just lately, but over the past year? A bit more than usual? Reasons for leaving are often suspect?
Is it the Pentagon Purge: The Reality Show? …or is it the Jerry Springer version of A Few Good Men??
Replace a few good men with your own incompetents, whom you can control, then tie the hands of the rest …and you get disasters like Benghazi.
Meanwhile, we get the magic show, where a larger action covers a smaller one -a distraction, often refered to as ‘misdirection.’
I think, that while dead ambassadors and Seals is a tragedy, and a good thing to fully investigate, someone is also using it as a distraction. The problem is, we might not like the way our perceptions have been ‘re-framed’ at the end of the show.
Being a Veteran, I do have some problems with the author’s attempt to turn the whole disaster into a sly witticsm of some sort. Not funny. Not at all cute, there, Mr. Simon.
Clearly the conclusions that must be drawn from all this is the complete and utter incompetence on the part of this administration to even remotely understand military operations as well as the logistics of the chain-of-command.
The neophyte regime has, in their heads, the notion of what they think the military is and is not, based on a poor supposition that it’s all “baby-killer Nazis”. With that premise, they set about disarming the military’s leadership by selecting the most likely to get along with their ideology, rather than the strongest and best for protection of the nation, viewing most general officers as “interchangeable” in some ways but malleable in others. Then there’s the blackmail aspect to it.
At the end, you have a gutted military leadership by virtue of picking those who are more political in nature, which has been the case more often than not. Real, no-nonsense leaders are seldom picked due to the fact that they haven’t the tools to be diplomatic, always acceptable in mixed company and saying the things politicians want to hear. Indeed, the no-nonsense types seldom make it past major these days, possibly even captain.
But it all ties in with political-correctness, affirmative action and the rest of the BS that society has ladled upon us just to breathe.
But with ultra-socialists like the magic negro in charge and the gaggles of leftwing twits being in charge of the military, this is what you get.
General Casey, the guy responsible for letting Nidal Hasan stay in the army long enough to slaughter 13 at Ft. Hood (and wound many others)seems to fit the style of an Obama commander.
Now the relatives of those slaughtered at Ft. Hood are suing to get the designation changed from “workplace violence” to “terrorism”. The latter designation opens up some categories, compensation, something.
Might be some of the reason why this crowd in DC tried so hard to categorize Benghazi as a spontaneous “protest”.
Calling Ft. Hood workplace violence should have been absurd enough to laugh this crowd out of existence.
Do not forget about the deadly attack on Camp Bastion, Afghanistan 3 days later–that was also a huge loss for us…
2+ months since Benghazi, and DiFi and friends now announce themselves ready to “investigate”.
(She seems more outraged that her committee wasn’t informed about the sex scandals than about Benghazi)
Krauthammer’s theory on why Petraeus backed up “the video” in his initial testimony (that he was blackmailed on “the affair”) makes the most sense, but, for whatever reason, that video backup story coming from him was disappointing.
If, on September 14, the white house knew enough to blackmail Petraeus, the idea that Obama didn’t learn about it until the day after the election, November 7, is another whopper from this crowd. (seems hard to imagine Obama wouldn’t be told about his commander’s dalliances)
When Hillary and Obama were both Senators and running for President, sometime in early ’08, General Petraeus was questioned by both of them along with a bunch of other Senators on the same committee.
Obama’s questioning of General Petraeus was nothing short of accusative and hostile, at the same time that it was tentative and insecure. (my hatred for Obama got a big boost that day, maybe even started there)
(remember the full page ad in the NYTimes paid for by Obama backers, “General Betrayus”)
Hillary’s questioning wasn’t much better, although she wasn’t quite so small minded and petty.
Every time I hear BS like “Obama highly respects and has great confidence in” his general, I remember that day.
I was shocked that Petraeus agreed to serve at the CIA in this regime.
Petraeus probably had no choice but to take on the CIA role; Obama wasn’t going to let him continue in the military.
And, possibly, Petraeus thought he could protect the CIA against Obama.
Never underestimate anyone as pathological as Obama; whose sole agenda is power, who has no connection with truth or integrity; no love for America.
I’m not going to come down too hard on Petraeus for the affair. Alpha male (you have to be one to do what he’s done) away from wife for long stretches of time, heck there are allegations against Eisenhower and even Washington. And it’s not like there isn’t a fine tradition of generals to get something on the side.
The scandal continues to be why & what was our ambassador doing in Benghazi and with substandard security.
Alpha male? Naaaaah. Just a politician in uniform all too willing to squander American lives in a futile “counterinsurgency”/”nation-building” project in a benighted part of the world not only ruled, but also inhabited, by seventh-century savages.
Why does anyone ask questions like this? Between this current administration and the willing media, a full investigation might occur but if it proves harmful to this administration, we will NEVER hear it. The left has done such an excellent job of demonizing conservatives and their issues, it’s would make those in charge of Germany during the 1930′s very proud.
Perhaps the one thing Obama most fears is his own side. They will make endless excuses for his failings but what if he has been lying to them all along about rendition and enhanced interrogation? Broadwell’s video suggests that may be the case.
“most likely the greatest American political/military scandal since WWII, a scandal, as many have noted, of far more seriousness and dimension than Watergate.” Oh, puh-leeze. This is the best example of Obama Derangement Syndrome yet. You think this is more serious than the president directing hush money to be paid to guys in jail?
Yes. One murdered ambassador trumps any number of paid-off cronies.
There was a brief period when Petraeus was mentioned as a potential running mate for Romney. Who was it who advocated such a selection? If it was Axelrod or the White House Press Secretary, you KNOW Obama knew about the scandal back then!
Back in the day there was severe flooding in the Midwest and along the Mississippi River. Many farms were flooded, including some deliberately as levees were blown up in some places to relieve pressure on others. Congress held hearings. Did they invite actual farm families, particularly the farm wives who lived the hardships Congress wanted to investigate? No. They invited a few actresses who had played such farm wives in a movie.
Given that and other episodes like it and the example of “The Blue Dress” anyone really think Congress won’t go for gossip over substance?
One item in all of this that hasn’t been explored by anyone is how did the Administration come up with the story that it was the video. That is, what piece of rational evidence did they pick up that led them to that conclusion. All I know it that It happened on the same day as the Egyptian confrontation at our Embassy. But even there how did they really know why the young men were assembled in Cairo? What junior George Gallop was there to take the survey so they could draw the conclusion that it was the conclusion.
Or was it just a convenient conclusion? The one that fit the narrative they wanted to tell. If I remember, they were saying we are all Osama or something like that, which could point to other reasons for the confrontation. So, I repeat, what was the specific evidence either in Cairo or Benghazi?
That is, what piece of rational evidence did they pick up that led them to that conclusion. All I know it that It happened on the same day as the Egyptian confrontation at our Embassy.
The closest I’ve heard of “evidence” is that some guys who perpetrated the Benghazi attack were overheard saying they’d been watching what had just happened in Cairo.
So that should be enough for a US President and his surrogates to lie to the American public for 2 solid weeks. Right ?
Speaking of Cairo, one of the new Brotherhood guys is calling for the demolition of the Sphinx and the Pyramids, idolatrous, you know, like those ancient Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan that were blown up.
The Arab Spring feels more like an Islamist Winter.
” its architect figured out what our military really wanted for its headquarters was not a conventional office building but a theater-in-the-round set for a French bedroom farce with all the doors ready to slam.”
sorry but our Military have more sense concerning their zipper
you would have been better inspired if you’d said that that was a Feydeau comedy/farce
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Feydeau
ABC news has some details on the relationship between the Kelleys, and military folks, like the great Petraeus…
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/petraeus-affair-jill-kelley/story?id=17707752
These people are corrupt beyond belief. Next step: detailed investigation of the finances of cheats like Petraeus, and other military officers and government officials, who appear to be deeply involved with the Kelleys.
BOMBSHELL OR “COINCIDENCE”?: NATALIE KHAWAM’S EX-HUSBAND, GRAYSON WOLFE WAS, “Director of Broader Middle East Initiatives and Iraqi Reconstruction and Special Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer at the Export-Import Bank of the United States”
LINKED IN FOR GRAYSON WOLFE – EX-HUSBAND OF NATALIE KHAWAM:
Grayson is a founding partner of Akkadian Private Ventues, LLC and its affiliate companies. He has designed and executed developmental projects & transactions principally in the power, oil & gas and water sectors…
In addition, he has been involved with project finance, private sector development, privitizations, infrastructure security, and capital markets projects.
Before starting Akkadian, he previously served as Director of Broader Middle East Initiatives and Iraqi Reconstruction and Special Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer at the Export-Import Bank of the United States. He was appointed to the bank by President Bush in June 2002.
Between January and August 2004, Grayson served as Manager of the Private Sector Development Office of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq.”
QUESTIONS THE PROFESSIONALS AND ELECTED OFFICIAL MUST GET ANSWERS FOR:
(1) IS THIS THE SAME GRYSON WOLFE WHO WAS MARRIED TO NATALIE KHAWAM?
(2) IF SO, DID HE KNOW PETRAEUS AND ALLEN THROUGH HIS OFFICIAL BUSINESS?
(3) HAS HIS NEW FIRM DONE BUSINESS IN CENTCOM AREAS, AND OTHER SENSITIVE AREAS IN THE REGION?
(4) IS HIS BUSINESS A CIA FRONT, OR JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE “REVOLVING DOOR” THROUGH WHICH PEOPLE FORMERLY IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE CAPITALIZE ON THEIR GOVERNMENT SERVICE?
[NOTE: MORE THAN ONE PERSON CAN SEND AD RECEIVE EMAIL VIA THE SAME EMAIL ADDRESS; THEY CAN SHARE IT. AND TWINS OFTEN SHARE THINGS.... SO, MAYBE THEY WERE SHARING COMMUNICATION TO & FROM ALLEN? THIS - AND A COMMERCIAL INTEREST IN ADDITION TO A SALACIOUS INTEREST, MIGHT EXPLAIN THE 30,000 EMAILS BETWEEN GENERAL ALLEN AND THE KHAWAM EMAIL ADDRESS. STAY TUNED...]
MORE HERE:
BOMBSHELL OR “COINCIDENCE”?: NATALIE KHAWAM’S EX-HUSBAND, GRAYSON WOLFE WAS, “Director of Broader Middle East Initiatives and Iraqi Reconstruction and Special Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer at the Export-Import Bank of the United States”
LINKED IN FOR GRAYSON WOLFE – EX-HUSBAND OF NATALIE KHAWAM:
Grayson is a founding partner of Akkadian Private Ventues, LLC and its affiliate companies. He has designed and executed developmental projects & transactions principally in the power, oil & gas and water sectors…
In addition, he has been involved with project finance, private sector development, privitizations, infrastructure security, and capital markets projects.
Before starting Akkadian, he previously served as Director of Broader Middle East Initiatives and Iraqi Reconstruction and Special Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer at the Export-Import Bank of the United States. He was appointed to the bank by President Bush in June 2002.
Between January and August 2004, Grayson served as Manager of the Private Sector Development Office of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq.”
QUESTIONS THE PROFESSIONALS AND ELECTED OFFICIAL MUST GET ANSWERS FOR:
(1) IS THIS THE SAME GRYSON WOLFE WHO WAS MARRIED TO NATALIE KHAWAM?
(2) IF SO, DID HE KNOW PETRAEUS AND ALLEN THROUGH HIS OFFICIAL BUSINESS?
(3) HAS HIS NEW FIRM DONE BUSINESS IN CENTCOM AREAS, AND OTHER SENSITIVE AREAS IN THE REGION?
(4) IS HIS BUSINESS A CIA FRONT, OR JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE “REVOLVING DOOR” THROUGH WHICH PEOPLE FORMERLY IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE CAPITALIZE ON THEIR GOVERNMENT SERVICE?
[NOTE: MORE THAN ONE PERSON CAN SEND AD RECEIVE EMAIL VIA THE SAME EMAIL ADDRESS; THEY CAN SHARE IT. AND TWINS OFTEN SHARE THINGS.... SO, MAYBE THEY WERE SHARING COMMUNICATION TO & FROM ALLEN? THIS - AND A COMMERCIAL INTEREST IN ADDITION TO A SALACIOUS INTEREST, MIGHT EXPLAIN THE 30,000 EMAILS BETWEEN GENERAL ALLEN AND THE KHAWAM EMAIL ADDRESS. STAY TUNED...]
MORE HERE.
Yep – no matter what their other body parts might be doing, their HANDS are always in OUR POCKETS.
“The people who should be put in charge of unraveling Benghazigate are — ta-dum — the folks at the National Enquirer.”
This should be the quote of the week everywhere.
And, the hits just keep on coming…
“Paula Broadwell, the author who allegedly had an affair with former CIA Director David Petraeus, is suspected of storing significant amounts of military documents, including classified material, at her home, potentially in violation of federal law.”
“A source familiar with case told ABC News that Broadwell admitted to the FBI she took the documents from secure government buildings. The government demanded that they all be given back, and when federal agents descended on her North Carolina home on Monday night it was a pre-arranged meeting.”
“Prosecutors are now determining whether to charge Broadwell with a crime, and this morning the FBI and military are pouring over the material. The 40-year-old author, who wrote the biography on Gen. Petraeus “All In,” is cooperating and the case, which is complicated by the fact that as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Military Reserve she had security clearance to review the documents.”
http://news.yahoo.com/broadwell-classified-document-probe-114054139.html
How could this be the spy greatest scandal since WW2 with Pollard, Hannsen, and the entire Walker family still living memories??????????
Hysterical Hyperbole Alert; “Benghazi is the greatest American political/military scandal since WWII!!!” says a breathless Roger Simon.
Um, no, Roger, that would be the 9/11 attack that the Bush Administration slept through even though National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice was given specific warning about the use of airliners as weapons and Bush was given specific warnings in his daily national security briefing that an attack was immanent barely a month before it happened. Neither took any action.
Benghazi is just the latest faux scandal pulled from the fever-swamp of Obama Derangement Syndrome. As soon as this goes away the loonies will pull another one from the swamp in their tireless effort to create anything to throw in the gears of the Obama Administration (see Clinton Administration, second term, impeachment for blow job in the Oral Office). Roger, of course, will be right there spewing spittle and leading the charge like the loyal toady that he is.
Typical leftoid liar. The warnings recieved by the Bush administration were so vague, no one could have done anything about them.
Some unknown terrorists are planning on hitting an unknown target on an unknown date isn’t enough information to go on.
If Bush had been the greatest president of all time, he would have reversed Bill Clinton’s do-nothing approach to terror attacks and gone after terrorists and state sponsors hammer and tongs…and the left wing scum (including virtually the entire Democrat Party) in America would have gone absolutely berserk, and tried to sabotage the war effort, which is exactly what they did anyway.
Two words, Richard Clark.
Any questions?
I didn’t think so, dooffus.
Yes, I have two questions:
1.) What does Dick Clark (host of the show American bandstand) have to do with all this?
2.) Did it hurt when they gave you that pre-frontal lobotomy?
Let me get this straight: For the past 50 years, liberal women have been urging women to suppress that which makes us special, our reproductive abilities. So now, their “girl parts” are only for recreational purposes, nothing special. Men have responded by finding other women, other orifices, Justin Bieber blow-up dolls, male orifices-heck, a toilet paper tube will do in a pinch! Liberal women realized this year that no one thinks their “girl parts” are special any more, so they went on a “Raising Awareness” tour: Naomi Wolf wrote a book, Code Pink dressed up, San Francisco women made posters and protested. All to no avail; heck, what do they need liberal “girl parts” for? They came up with the BRILLIANT strategy of claiming that liberal women use their “girl parts” for the very important job of “Deciding who to vote for”. And it worked!! Everyone now knows that liberal women think with girl parts, not brains, so NO ONE ever has to take a liberal woman’s thoughts seriously ever again. But wait! A few people didn’t get that nuanced idea, so this week, they sent out the crack team of Paula Broadwell and Jill Kelley to emphasize that yes, liberal women do just that.
Well said!
Every year we are inundated with pink to prove our caring and awareness of breast cancer. Though I don’t dismiss the seriousness of the disease, when will we be inundated with blue little ribbons to raise prostate cancer which kills more men yearly than does breast cancer?
I’d love to see the WNBA all decked out in blue to identify with their awareness of prostate cancer. Little ribbons everywhere…you know…and special other events to raise both funds and awareness in fighting it.
Just sayin’ :-\
Heading waaaaayyy OT here, but of course the pill is a factor in the increased incidence of breast cancer.
“…what is most likely the greatest American political/military scandal since WWII, a scandal, as many have noted, of far more seriousness and dimension than Watergate?”
Well, I think we’ve had worse scandals, but the POTUS and his henchmen not acting to deal with a potentially grave security breech for months just to cover their own asses on election day is definitely the stuff impeachments were designed to deal with.
And, this is much worse than Watergate, which was a manufactured scandal.
National Enquirer? I don’t think so.
Doesn’t “friend of Bill” (Clinton) Ron Burkle own a big piece of that?
Obama could be videotaped banging Madonna and Beyonce in the Oval Office and the MSM wouldn’t say a word.
They’d be surprised as hell. “Bathhouse Barry” doesn’t play for that team.
DON’T DO “MAD MEN” IN A “MAD MAX MEDIA” WORLD.Gentlemen, let General Petraeus serve as a warning — this is not the day you can hide a passionate, handwritten note. You would be amazed at the relationship information put on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media.
That’s it? Only two hot chicks. Where are all the rest?
“Will we ever get to the bottom of possibly the greatest American political/military scandal since WWII?”
Of course we will! Just as soon as somebody in hollywood writes and produces a movie about it. lol
Well … Watergate was ‘manufactured?’ Huh. Didn’t know that.
Anyhoo … I see it as cheap, sordid, and pathetic:
http://lajuntablog.blogspot.com/2012/11/obama-gets-bye.html
It was totally manufactured. The Democrats had been spying on people, without bothering to get search warrants, for decades.
For example:
“From 1940 to 1973, the CIA and the FBI engaged in twelve covert mail opening programs in violation of Sections 1701-1703 of Title 18 of the United States Code which prohibit the obstruction, interception, or opening of mail. Both of these agencies also engaged in warrantless “surreptitious entries” — break-ins — against American citizens within the United States in apparent violation of state laws prohibiting trespass and burglary.”–Church Commission
The only thing the Democrats who went after Nixon objected to, was that someone was daring to do to them what they’d done thousands of times to others.
I was unhappy with Republican choices for nominees and considered Petraeus. ….thinking he might better control our runaway government. I am saddened by his caving to a well-endowed woman. She of the muscular and well- toned arms. Michelle must be envious.
If a war should break out soon, who would command the troops….Axelrod? The bald viper? There has been so much criticism of the generals in previous wars. But isn’t a slap preferable to the hanky pank we are niow seeing? I long for Patton and his Ivory handled revolvers.