Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) announced that she and vice-chairman Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) will move forward with plans to call David Petraeus before their panel to testify on Benghazi.
Petraeus was supposed to testify on Thursday, but that was called off when he resigned as CIA director on Friday. Acting Director Mike Morell will testify in his place.
“It’s also my intention — this has not yet been announced — to talk with General Petraeus, Director Petraeus. This ties into his trip that he made just before all of this broke to some Middle Eastern countries, including Libya,” Feinstein told Wolf Blitzer on CNN.
“This afternoon, I’ll be meeting with the ranking member, our vice chairman, Saxby Chambliss. We will go over the plan for this. We will both meet with Mr. Morell, and then we will proceed,” she said.
Such testimony would be in a classified setting.
On the Petraeus scandal, the chairwoman said she has “many questions about the nature of the FBI investigation, how it was instituted.”
“…I understand protecting people. I don’t understand doing it all under a cloud of secrecy, even people with responsibilities are not even notified so they can ask questions about its propriety.”
Feinstein said she and Chambliss — along with the House intelligence leaders, Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) — met with the latest scandal-embroiled general, Afghanistan commander John Allen, in late spring in Kabul.
“He talked about his mission, how it was going, and I think the four of us came away with a sense that he is, in fact, a fine commander,” she said. “I don’t know exactly what the situation is here. We will look at it, we will ask for a report, we will gather the materials, we will ask to see classified documents that may have been on Ms. Broadwell’s — that’s another — Ms. Broadwell’s computer.”
Feinstein said she spoke with Attorney General Eric Holder last night, and he agreed to present those to the committee.
She wouldn’t speculate, though, on whether Petraeus or Allen were allowing access to classified information.
Is someone behind the scenes encouraging the general to take a “more honorable” path before this critical testimony happens? While he reflects on the difficulty of putting he life back together, it looks more like he is being given all the time he needs to make the “correct decision for his country.”
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Feinstein said she and Chambliss — along with the House intelligence leaders, Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) — met with the latest scandal-embroiled general, Afghanistan commander John Allen, in late spring in Kabul.
“He talked about his mission, how it was going, and I think the four of us came away with a sense that he is, in fact, a fine commander,” she said.
Fine commander?
This SOB Allen was the one who basically excused our Afghan “Partners in Peace” for shooting our troops by saying the were stressed out from not being able to eat during Ramadan, never minding that it’s only no eating while the sun is up but Muslims can gorge themselves at night.
“I think that the holy month of Ramadan demands great sacrifice of Muslims who observe it. The idea that they will fast during the day places great strain on them.” – General Allen, the Son of a #itch!
Yeah, I feel real confident in getting to the truth with Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) leading the charge.
Feinstein so incredibly full of real character, she wouldn’t even debate her Republican opponent this last election. Called it unnecessary.
I think if I were Petraeus, I’d just tell Feinstein I felt my testimony was unnecessary.
It’s too late. As a private citizen, Petraeus can just take the 5th amendment. As the DCIA that was not an option.
Is Axelrod really Jimmy Hoffa?
Why is Bronco purging the Army?
Just watch. Feinstein will call on Petraeus to testify, he’ll give a reason why he’s not “able” to, and the Dems will say they did everything they could to get to the bottom of this scandal.
The Dems have gamed this thing to the last nano-measurement. ‘No wiggle room. At every turn, there’s another Catch-22 for those trying to investigate what the Hell’s going on. With this scandal, the Dems have stirred up a sex-sandstorm to conceal what happened in Benghazi.
As Leonard Cohen sang in The Future (1993):
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions,
Won’t be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore.
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed threshold
and it has overturned the order of the soul. …
Yes, somehow they will ensure that he does not testify. My guess is he may be being threatened — perhaps a threat to his son.
This is another ‘big story” that will simply disappear and have little to no affect on Obama, regardless of what the congressional committees learn and independent of whether the republicans or dems oversee the investigation.
First, the propaganda arm of Obama and the democratic party – the MSM – will either ignore or minimize any negatives that can reflect on Obama. And the millions of young americans you get their “news” from Jon Stewart, et. al., will hear him crack a few jokes about sex and generals. (Note: these young people vote).
Two: Obama’s thugs will either lie to any congressional committee or claim executive privilege or will claim “we have launched our own investigation and cannot comment until the investigation is complete.” Obama of course, will appoint the ‘special investigator” who will report to Holder.
Three: All of the above will be dragged out for months and months and months until it simply disappears from the radar screen of the public.The MSM will ensure that the entire ‘scandal” disappears by totally ignoring it.
Four: Regardless of what is learned by congress, Obama will ignore everything as will his appointed thugs. Congress will do nothing when this occurs. The MSM will ignore the results of any investigation if it may hurt Obama. If not, they will trumpet the results for weeks on end and show the american people how the republicans were on another witch hunt (like fast and furious).
Five: At any news conferences in which Obama actually appears, the questions tossed at him by the MSM will deal with “what is your favorite color?”…”do you prefer cheese of pepperoni pizza?” ….”same with Michelle?”
Frankly, the only folks who can help us now are those in the secessionist movement in Texas.
And don’t forget God.
“Vengeance is mine, says the Lord.”
The administration and the news media think there couldn’t be any better detraction from the issue of the Syrian gun-running operation that killed four in Bengasi than salacious sex stories. However, the USA elite seem to have misjudged the intelligence of its citizens. The citizens stubbornly refuse to succumb to the estrogen rush all those sex-stories and media propaganda are meant to unleash so to short circuit their brains. Therefore, the call and insistence on answers to the lies disseminated by the administration about Bengasi attack doesn’t cease. Could it be that the public is still waiting for the pornographic material like some nude pictures or is it high time for the administration to come clean and provide some coherent answers?
Petraeus will only tell what has really happened if his family is safe. Obama’s thugs play for keeps. They would take Petraeus himself out right now except that it would be a little too obvious.
I’ve predicted a fraudulent election for the past two years, when it became obvious that Obama had no intention of fixing what he had broken, or what anyone else had broken, in the economy. All of Washington has been in on this scheme in one way or another – either actively participating or just keeping silent about it. Computers made it easy.
It’s a takeover, a coup d’etat, the demise of America, carried out in broad daylight. The major players have been the compliant media and the shadowy characters behind the scenes – the media to distract us while the dirty work was going on. Obama hizself is a sideshow.
The O’Thugs are backed by big money out of Russia, Europe, China and right here in America, and they control the levers of power. The Left will continue to pooh-pooh everything we on the Right sat in order to demoralize us and throw us off their scent.
We’re in for bigtime domestic trouble.
Big-time trouble, I agree.
I heard a few seconds of Oblahblah’s first statement about the Petraeus sex scandal — of course, nothing about Benghazi — on the radio this afternoon and could only take about 10 seconds of his “sonorous” and oh-so-(in)sincere voice. A prayer for mercy on us all is the only thing I could muster.
Leonard Cohen’s The Future is a magnificently prophetic song-poem and horrifying in its prescience:
… Give me crack and anal s*x
Take the only tree that’s left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture …
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions,
Won’t be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore.
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed threshold
and it has overturned the order of the soul. …
… Your servant here he has been told
To say it clear, to say it cold,
It’s over now, it ain’t going
any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
You feel the devil’s riding crop
Get ready for the future:
It is murder …
… There’ll be the breaking of the ancient
Western code …
Like you say, right in broad daylight … as the Scripture says, sometimes the devil comes as an angel of light and having forsaken our spiritual heritage, we’re sitting ducks because a critical mass, if not a majority, of the population has lost the ability to discern spirits, which is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Kyrie eleison.
Don’t expect Feinstein to do a thing. Take it from a lifelong San Francisco Bay Area resident… When she was mayor of SF, she kicked the Navy out of SF Bay, and let the gay bathhouses continue spreading AIDS… Yeah, she has a real spine, that one.