Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

WE LIVE IN A WORLD GONE MAD (What the heck is happening with those who are defending this country?)
Powerline ^ | 11/13/2012 | John Hindraker

Posted on 11/13/2012 7:40:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind

In the post immediately below, Scott recaps some of the recent developments in the Petraeus scandal. I want to add one or two more, and also elaborate a bit on one of the items that Scott mentioned.

The most significant of the recent bombshells, I think, is the report that Eric Holder knew about the scandal as of late summer, when the FBI contacted his office to get permission to interview Petraeus and Paula Braodwell. Holder apparently claims that he never mentioned this potentially election-derailing news to his boss and good buddy, Barack Obama. I find this claim–that, while many others in Washington knew of the Petraeus investigation, including Congressmen like Eric Kantor, Obama himself was blissfully ignorant until three days after the election–wholly implausible, just as I find implausible the claim that it was sheer coincidence that the scandal didn’t become public until then.

The least significant development, but one of the weirdest, is the replacement of the FBI agent who began the investigation on behalf of the bureau. The agent, whose name apparently has not been disclosed, was removed from the investigation after he “grew obsessed” with it, and specifically with Jill Kelley, to whom he sexted shirtless photos of himself.

Jill Kelley

The story I want to return to is the one involving another general, John Allen, who succeeded Petraeus as the commander of American and allied troops in Afghanistan. As a form of collateral damage, apparently, the FBI has found that General Allen, like the FBI agent, is obsessed with Jill Kelley. She must be quite a woman! Allen can be printed, in most editions, in under 1,500 pages. So what on earth were General Allen and Mrs. Kelley writing so as to fill up 20,000 to 30,000 pages? Poetry? Love notes? The longest military treatise ever? Assume it took General Allen a mere five minutes to either read or write one page–no doubt a low estimate, when it comes to writing–and use the mid-point of 25,000 pages. That would mean that Allen devoted 125,000 minutes to his correspondence with Mrs. Kelley, or 2,083 hours–in other words, a full work year (40 hours times 52 weeks). No wonder we aren’t winning in Afghanistan!



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: affair; benghazi; jillkelley; military; navyseals; resignation; threatmatrix; threatmatrixbenghazi
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-88 next last

1 posted on 11/13/2012 7:40:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

wow.. human nature..who’d a thunk.. the difference is, thanks to American’s appetite for this crap, now we hear about it, 24/7.

And isn’t it convenient that all these higher ups are now so completely discredited, that they won’t be believed...and are now busy “putting their lives together” that they can’t testify?

They will all testify in a couple of years, when the whole thing is forgotten and the press has moved on.


2 posted on 11/13/2012 7:44:26 AM PST by Chuzzlewit
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

I think someone in this adminisration is releasing this information to the media to bring the military hierarchy down ...


3 posted on 11/13/2012 7:44:41 AM PST by Ken522
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Well, I think what we are witnessing is the simultaneous suicide ad murder of a once great nation by awful, awful people.

And there isn’t going to be any stopping it.


4 posted on 11/13/2012 7:44:57 AM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2nd amendment mama

We’re so screwed........


5 posted on 11/13/2012 7:46:26 AM PST by basil (Second Amendment Sisters.org)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

I think part of the problem with our military is this long protracted nation building BS. Troops are going for multiple tours and families are being torn apart. They are away from their families over and over and sit in a backwards miserable land. Structure in all forms is breaking down.


6 posted on 11/13/2012 7:46:37 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Sure seems as though Kelley has been playing the role of femme fatale to a number of men in positions of authority. Maybe she’s just cursed with a come-hither projection, or maybe she really enjoys the attention.

Just an observation, not a condemnation.


7 posted on 11/13/2012 7:47:03 AM PST by jagusafr (the American Trinity (Liberty, In G0D We Trust, E Pluribus Unum))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind
I won't be surprised if all the JCS aren't replaced by Jan 2013.

5.56mm

8 posted on 11/13/2012 7:47:22 AM PST by M Kehoe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ken522

Is there not a part of the Alinsky plan to discredit and dismantle the military?


9 posted on 11/13/2012 7:48:22 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Ken522

“I think someone in this adminisration is releasing this information to the media to bring the military hierarchy down ...”

I think you’re right, since zero is considering the appointment of J.F.Kerry to the Sec of Defense position. Very troubling.


10 posted on 11/13/2012 7:48:36 AM PST by duckman (I'm part of the group pulling the wagon!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Chuzzlewit
But, Barney Frank who openly lived with another man while in government gets a liberal pass. I am sick of MSM being the National Enquirer. Well, I guess the progression is inevitable when the MSM has becme a bunch of leftist liberal hypocrites.
11 posted on 11/13/2012 7:48:36 AM PST by Bitsy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

I think we’re finally realising that everyone is pretty much the same, even those we think should be above certain behaviors.


12 posted on 11/13/2012 7:48:49 AM PST by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind
So what on earth were General Allen and Mrs. Kelley writing so as to fill up 20,000 to 30,000 pages?

Er...let me guess. Something other than romance?

13 posted on 11/13/2012 7:49:09 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Obama: "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; Nachum; onyx; ...
More stinky socks.

Anyone wanting on or off this ping list, please advise.


Benghazi Index

14 posted on 11/13/2012 7:49:44 AM PST by MestaMachine (TREASON!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

We have a degraded culture. Affairs, sex and perversion have always occurred with people of power, but at least everyone paid respect to the idea of moral behavior.

Now, respect for propriety hasn’t completely disappeared, but it has obviously declined. Furthermore, sex, entertainment and pleasure-is everywhere in our society. Temptation is much greater, so odds are, more people will be caught by it.


15 posted on 11/13/2012 7:49:44 AM PST by PGR88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

I don’t want to paint with a broad brush here, but the idea that ‘leaders’, elected or unelected, are somehow the cream of the crop is just fantasy. Sometimes it’s not that the cream that rises to the top, but that s**t floats.


16 posted on 11/13/2012 7:50:01 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind
I guess the thing I never realized is that Holder has run the FBI for 4 years. In four years, you can gather material on virtually every enemy that can possibly arise. They hold the strings on every player in this government except possibly the most squeaky clean. Regardless of what goes down, none of it will ever touch Obama. This is now Venezuela.
17 posted on 11/13/2012 7:50:50 AM PST by throwback (The object of opening the mind, is as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Democrats saved this juicy little story until after the election so that CNN could salivate over sex instead of asking questions about Benghazi that need to be asked.

As far as I’m concerned, the General (and the other one for that matter) can or could screw anyone they want with no more repercussions than Bill Clinton’s blow jobs, or the buggering Obama’s CINC directives now condones.


18 posted on 11/13/2012 7:51:03 AM PST by Gaffer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: chris37

“Well, I think what we are witnessing is the simultaneous suicide ad murder of a once great nation by awful, awful people.

And there isn’t going to be any stopping it.”

Agreed. We had our chance, but it wasn’t “pure” enough. So, now we can only watch helplessly as the country is dismantled and remade to Marx’ liking.


19 posted on 11/13/2012 7:51:25 AM PST by brownsfan (It's over.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

The only way to fix this whole mess is to attack Iran.


20 posted on 11/13/2012 7:52:50 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (There goes the dominoes...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-88 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson