Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Fox News Sunday that the news was “like a lightning bolt” with no advance notice to the committees that, by law, are supposed to be informed of any significant development in the intelligence sector.
Feinstein confirmed there will be a committee inquiry into why the FBI sat on the news of the investigation for so long.
“The FBI has briefed me now. I actually wish we had been briefed a little bit earlier so that the full intelligence committee — one of the things I’ve tried to do, Chris, is bring both sides together. So, my vice chairman, Saxby Chambliss, and I share material and work together and that’s a very important concept,” she said. “With neither of us knowing ahead of time, all of this, obviously, comes as a big shock.”
Feinstein said she only found out when her office began receiving calls from the media about the Petraeus affair. A Friday afternoon appointment she had with the disgraced director was then canceled.
“This is something that could have had an effect on national security. I think we should have been told. There is a way to do it,” she said. “And that is, just to inform the chair and the vice chairman of both committees, to — this has happened before, not with precise, same things, but, none of the four of us have ever breached that confidentiality.”
The Associated Press reported this afternoon that the State Department’s liaison to the military’s Joint Special Operations Command allegedly received the harassing emails from Petraeus biographer Paula Broadwell that triggered an FBI investigation. The FBI probe into the complaint began several months ago.
Without restating the obvious, the Chief Fraud and his advisors will stop short of Nothing to keep power. This includes blatant lying.
But you knew that.
curly, of course you are correct, but it is so much worse. For if it is just the Thug-in-Chief it is bad enough. But the truth is much more dangerous.
Revolutionaries have a stranglehold on the gov’t, and few understand its impact. They have rendered the Congress irrelevant, and that is that. It matters not a whit whether musical chairs are played-if Hill stays or goes, or Holder too. For everyone replaced under the Radical-in-Chief will hue the same line.
Moreover, the Dems in Congress approve of said behavior!
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/11/12/obamas-forward-march-to-tyranny-when-is-enough-really-enough-before-freedomliberty-is-no-longer-an-option/
Once freedom is fully lost it is too late – at least for generations to come!
Not necessarily, Adina. Obama is running out of people for his “inner circle”. He needs people to bolster him; people he can trust from the Chicago group or he flounders badly. With Holder, Axelrod, and even Clinton gone, he’s left holding the bag all on his lonesome. Even Valarie Jarrett can’t fill the voids. I can’t think of anyone associated with him that he can call on to fill those positions. It’s a quandary and I’m curious to see how it plays out.
There are hordes of people salivating at stepping in to these positions. Just because you never hear their names doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
The obsequious media will only publish names when they deem it necessary.
Do you think Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, James Carville, Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, etc., are anomalies?
Not only muslims, but communists are reveling in Obama’s re-election.
See here:
http://www.examiner.com/article/communist-party-usa-celebrates-obama-s-re-election
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Seems to me that it makes no difference from where the tip came that got the FBI involved. The fact that neither principle party is denying the allegations pretty much sums it up. The general was/is no longer qualified to be Director of the CIA.
Someone should remind Senator Feinstein that there are no laws that will constrain this administration unless there is someone to enforce them; therefore when the Republican House votes to impeach the President, if it comes to that, will she urge her colleagues in the Democratic Senate to do their duty – to the country, not to the party?
when the Republican House votes to impeach the President, if it comes to that, will she urge her colleagues in the Democratic Senate to do their duty – to the country, not to the party?
Yesterday she was asked by Chris Wallace whether the timing of his resignation was political. She said no and Wallace didn’t challenge her. The answer to your question is are you kidding me?
As with whether Benghazi was a terrorist attack, Obama would have known about Petraeus’ affair as it was occurring. We now know why Petraeus claimed that the terrorist attack in Benghazi was caused by a video. And don’t tell me either is too honorable to be involved in blackmail.
Isn’t the governments’ classified e-mail system completely isolated from the regular e-mail system. The biographer shouldn’t have been able to access that equipment or see any classified traffic sent or received by it. If she was using that system, that is one particular serious matter. If she was accessing the unclassified system in his office, which she also should not have been doing, there should not have been any sensitive information available to her. If sensitive or classified information was accessible on that system, that then is a second serious matter and others should also be in trouble.
Why was this affair leaked AFTER the election?
Well we know it was to help keep Obama in office
but to leak it to deny Petraeus from appearing
before a congressional committee is a crime.
And now we find out that Eric Cantor knew about this two weeks ago.
This could have and should have cost Obamee the election.
Why Cantor said nothing in October makes no sense. Now our country has to suffer through another four more years of the worst President in history.
You play to win, you incompetent morons.
LightWave, where are you seeing Cantor kew about this “weeks ago”?
There are several sites where this is mentioned. CNN is one of them, PN. Just google “Cantor Patraeus” and it will show you the links.
The irony is, that now, this little niche group of elitist politicians are exactly like the rest of America.
Welcome to the ignored masses you overpaid, sycophantic, blood suckers.
This whole story is a head fake to keep us from focusing on these incompetent fools who mis-managed the bengazi affair–call it beganzi-gate. I thought Hillary “accepted” responsibility for this whole disaster? If so she should resign in disgrace. Now Petreaus and his mistress??? What else is coming up? A dog and pony show to keep us entertainted?
What a load of crap and there is nothing but more crap coming every day for the next four years. But they will tell us this crap is cavier and MSM will repeat it.
James Carville will be put out there and spout out that “It’s only about sex”. It worked for Clinton! Our national media will say, “Nothing to see here, move along”.
The Senate Intelliegence Committee should be asking why Ambassador Stephens was targeted and what role did Petraeus, in his comprised position as CIA Director, play in going along with the administration’s false narrative that a video was the motivation factor that led to the massacre in Benghazi. Why were Ambassador Stephens and the Turkish official meeting in Benghazi instead of Tripoli? There is enough information out there to suggest that arms were being taken to Syria by militias that we supported in Libya. It has also been suggested that the Ambassador was attempting to retrieve some of those weapons because they had fallen into the hands of Al Qeada types. This is a major cover-up and Petraeus knows the ugly truth.
This all sounds like another “reality series” ready made for TV next season. “Who Screwed Barney Frank” would be more popular than “Who Shot J.R.”.
With all the deference to this “administration” by an obsequious media, and all the power this “administration” has to shove it’s agenda through without resistance, why doesn’t this regime just completely take over every aspect of government?
It’s not like they don’t want to. They wag the dog much more than is necessary.
What I’m curious about is how Broadwell got access to Patraues’ personal email. Either he gave her his passwords or she sleuthed them some way. And why would she even want them? Is it something like just being a possessive, vindictive mistress or something more nefarious? It looks to me that Broadwell needs investigated even more than Patreaus.
As far as Patraeus, I think he ‘fessed up because he knew it would all come out, as it should, but, once done, he will be free from White House constraint to testify before Congress. Saving the salacious news until after the Election is just oh-so-obvious but that isn’t the main thing. The timing has been off on the Benghasi time-line since the get-go and Patraeus knows that. The one thing that would cause him to fall on his own sword would be his honor from his Military background and it had to have been in-extremis for him to break the cardinal rule of “leave no man behind”. Obama has no such compunction despite his fawning rhetoric but that has been ingrained in Patraeus for decades.
Does Patraeus have the intestinal fortitude to buck all the politics and put his life on the line for the US?
As a soldier, I would think he does.
Patraeus, please stand up to the blackmailer and chief and tell the truth.
Give the US citizens the smoking gun. No one cares about silly affair. Who, what, where and why this administration is covering up Benghazi.
OUR national security depends on it.
You just watch. General Petraeus is being set up as the fall guy for everything that happened in Libya. He is going to be the sacraficial lamb. Unless, of course, he doesn’t relish this outcome and decides to tell the truth under oath to Congress. I’m wondering if he will really do that. I’m guessing that if forced to, he will. Petraeus may be many things, but he is NOT a coward. If he’s forced to do it, he will take down the White House. And it could all be happening sooner than we think. The White House is probably releasing more and more information on Petraeus so as to destroy his credibility as a witness. I don’t think that will work. The next two weeks should tell us which way he’s going to go with this.
Is this a happy time in America, or not? A Congressman, who lives in a mental institution was reelected to Congress by a landslide, while in active plea bargaining to limit his time in a penitentiary. He knew he would never be allowed to take his oath, yet ran for office. He replaced a disgraced former Congressman in a prior expose. The Head of the CIA, with full knowledge of what happened at his Benghazi safe house in the recent attack by military forces, resigns because he used his secure communications with a girl friend. We just concluded a year of Presidential campaigning in which the topic of Fast and Furious, and the murder of two American peace officers was never explored in any depth.
With the active silence by the Executive branch in league with the MSM, we now have replaced October surprises with December surprises, or maybe twenty years after the fact, death bed surprises. We are kept in the dark, on basic facts. Everybody’s votes are based on ignorance.
The only thing I expect of the media is the prurient disclosure of every sexual aspect of ex General Petraeus personal life and the agony within his family.
And I expect the media will ignore the blood and death of Americans who keep America whole. My heart felt thanks to those who serve, played it straight, and sacrificed to keep me alive and free. Happy Veterans day. Should I add, suckers.
Corruption has no party affiliating … this is just the beginning of some very interesting months and years ahead. We have a corrupt DC and it shows more and more as each day passes … Romney would have been devastated by its depth and I believe he was spared death by a thousand cuts. As for Obama; even he doesn’t know the half of it; he’s clueless as to what’s really going on and he’s being painted into a corner as a result. No amount of rhetorica
Just another act in futility! The MARXISTS(ANTI-CHRIST & THE ONLY ANTI-CHRIST THAT “NEVER” CAN BE FORGIVEN UNLIKE ANTI-CHRIST ISLAM, THANKS TO A planned mandated CIVIL RIGHTS AGENDA), will follow the MARXIST MANIFESTO AGENDA & LIE, LIE, LIE & THEN, LIE SOME MORE JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN! WELCOME TO ADAM’S WORLD, EVEN BEFORE THE 1ST MURDERER WAS EVER BORN! Just saying…p.s. YOU DO KNOW THAT “WOMEN ALONE” RULE OUR REPUBLIC & THEY “ALONE,”(OUR MORE VERBAL COMPREHENSIVE SEX) ALSO HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SATAN’S TOOL! Just saying what already been written, BE HAPPY THAT WE ALREADY HAVE A SAVIOR, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS JEWISH! Get it? Just saying…
The Growth of Homeland Security’s Domestic Intelligence Enterprise October 9, 2012
http://publicintelligence.net/dhs-domestic-intelligence/
This, “Most Transparent”, administration is surrounded by one-way glass. They designed it so only they can see.
So here’s Dianne Feinstein “bringing both sides together.” Yeah, right.