Posted on 11/16/2012 4:49:49 AM PST by LD Jackson
The greatly anticipated testimony by former CIA Director David Petraeus is almost upon us. In less than half an hour, General Petraeus will be going behind closed doors to testify to before members of the House and Senate intelligence committees. Specifically, he will be asked about what he knew about the attack in Benghazi and when he knew it. According to CNN, Petraeus will also testify that the CIA was not responsible for the talking points used by Susan Rice when she famously went on five different Sunday talk shows and spread the false rumor that a video was responsible for the attacks.
For security purposes, much of the content of Petraeus' testimony will be classified. I am hopeful, however, that enough information will be released to allow us to gain some knowledge about what really happened, before, during, and after the attack in Benghazi. There is no doubt in my mind that the American people were fed a load of lies. There is also no doubt in my mind that it was done for two specific purposes.
First, President Obama was embroiled in a very tight reelection bid against Mitt Romney. A scandal of these proportions could have very well derailed that bid. As such, there was a concerted effort by his campaign, the White House, and the media to keep the truth about what happened in Benghazi out of the news as much as possible.
Secondly, I believe it goes against Obama's ingrained prejudice to allow any such event, attack or protest, to make Muslims appear in a bad light. He doesn't want them to appear to be the terrorists many of them are, therefore the video excuse was concocted. For days and weeks afterward, the media fed the American people the lie that the attack was the direct result of a video maligning the precious Muslim prophet, Muhammad. Even the casual observer could tell that wasn't the truth, but they continued the lie until after the election.
We could discuss much more about the cover up that continues to surround Benghazi. President Obama had his first press conference in a very long time and used it to attack Senators McCain, Graham, and Ayotte for going after Susan Rice. He famously said they should come after him instead. I am looking for the Senators to take him at his word. If David Petraeus testifies, as is being reported, that the talking points used by Susan Rice on the Sunday talk shows were provided by the White House, then go after Obama they should. Obama is fond of saying the buck stops with him and he likes to go it alone a lot of the time, albeit without the inherent responsibility of the job description. This is one time when he should be held completely and totally responsible for what has transpired.
Forget Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice. Forget David Petraeus and the rest of the intelligence community. Never mind about the staff in the White House who may or may not have told President Obama about the attack in Benghazi and how it was transpiring. Any investigation that proceeds from this day forward should go straight to the man who likes to claim he is responsible. I am not a vindictive man, but I hope David Petraeus nails President Obama to the White House wall for his role of responsibility about what happened in Benghazi and the cover up he has perpetrated.
Won’t happen.....hes a political animal, per Vince Flynn, and an EGOTIST!
Holly’s job pays $185,000.00!!!! Good freaking grief!!! That is insane!!
I think it is likely that the Petraeus tells all in executive session - more than enough to have Obama impeached.
I also think it is likely that the “shocked” committee members do approximately nothing with the information.
If the truth of the affair is already out, will he tell the truth? What else could he be blackmailed with?
Actually what Obama says about responsibility and how he ultimately behaves are two different things. He never ever takes responsibility for anything that goes wrong. The fact that he said come after me won’t even be addressed when he starts to evade the blame.
Won’t happen. Zero just created a new position in his admin, for the generals wife that pays 100K a year.< hr/>
$180,000 a year and she got this job a year ago.
Although I hope he will live up to his duty, I doubt he will. He has already illustrated his lack of character and honor. Most likely he will go into self preservation mode.
This is one of those pivotal/fork in the road moments in a person's life. There are choices we make in life that we can never undo, we regret these choices for the rest of our lives and I sadly believe he is about to make another of those wrong choices.
I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up eating a bullet after this whole thing is over.
If so, General Allen was giving Jill a lot of INFO!!!
Six figures sounds like a bribe to me.
Exactly. We have so few honest and honorable people in government.
I suppose it doesn’t matter if he nails anyone to the wall, I just want the complete and total truth. That is good enough.
We already know that our people were murdered in large part because the State Dept denied them security.
And to think a couple of BP people will be charged with manslaughter. What happens to the to the people that caused State Dept failures and lost lives?
It wasn’t even negligent—it was a full on deliberate shutting and locking of the door to our people, leaving them outside and prey to the enemy.
He is obligated to, but he won’t.
Good grief, I PRAY those are made-up emails!
$187K
His wife is on the payroll.
Game, set, match.
The bad guys win.
Terrorism derailing Obama’s re election bid? LOL
Obama could personally fly a 747 into the WTC and he would still get 99% of the black vote, 75% of latino votes and 80% of asians.
As far as P4 goes, I predict he says approximately ZERO
Ain’t gunna happen...
Patsy Patreaus didn’t get where he was both in the military and govt by doing what was right...he did it by doing what was politically expedient.
So, of course, he won't.
I do hope Petraeus does the right thing, but don’t forget, we also put our hopes in SCOTUS relative to ObamaCare.
Nothing is going to happen at all.
Same as ObamaCare - people like roberts, petraues, etc etc are loyal to the power structure not the people or Constitution.
Even if he did deliver damning evidence of cover-up and lies,
the MSM would just ignore the story.
This will go the way of F&F...poof; all gone.
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