Posted on 11/13/2012 9:46:23 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Piers Morgan asked a pretty good question of former CIA agent Robert Baer on his show last night, and Baer is just as perplexed as Morgan. David Petraeus suddenly resigned yesterday after the FBI discovered an extramarital affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell, but does the FBI routinely investigate the director of the CIA? Baer tells Morgan, “There is something going on here,” apart from the sexual peccadilloes. Or could it be as simple as the old adage that “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”?
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In addition, why was the FBI, a domestic police agency, involved in an overseas terrorism case?
That has been explained. Kelly went to the FBI about embarrassing EMAILs from Broadwell.
Why?
I mean harassing EMAILs.
Patraeus was going to testify exactly on what happened in Libya. Obama and his minions got to him, but perhaps he will have the last laugh since he went public.
I’m wondering if anyone at the FBI investigates our president?
The bottom line is this. Will he do the manly thing and now tell the truth or cower?
The whole story about Libya is dirty. I suspect it includes gun running for the Syrian rebels thru Turkey and a whole lot of other things.
But everyone wants to know the answer to one question. Did our president make a decision to do nothing in the face of the attack, sacrificing our people, to assure his reelection?
Because the United States is no longer under the rule of law, it is under the rule of Ubama, where anything goes as long as the net result is Ubama gets what he wants.
Maybe investigating security breaches that violate federal law? I think that would fall under FBI jurisdiction.
SnakeDoc
Why not? CIA employees are Federal employees. Why should they be exempt? It’snot like the CIA has any sort of reputation for ethical conduct. I’d bet that a thorough independent investigation would land a sizable proportion of CIA employees in jail.
Of course you could say that for any govt agency.
or even harassing emails?
The FBI has a counterterrorist branch. My understanding is that part of the post-9/11 investigation revealed that the communication and investigation “wall” between CIA counterterrorism and FBI counterterrorism created a weakness ... particularly when overseas terrorists become a domestic threat.
My understanding is that the FBI is now more involved in overseas counterterrorism than they used to be.
SnakeDoc
See this:
Benghazi. A view from Turkey (the Iskanderun port & Ali Sait Akin)
The FBI got involved first, because Kelly has a friend in the FBI, and she told him about this "cyberstalking" crap. Following that, "cyberstalking" is within the FBI's jurisdiction. Likely not solely within the FBI's jurisdiction, but still, it is something the FBI is allowed to pursue, under 47 USC 223, Obscene or harassing telephone calls in the District of Columbia or in interstate or foreign communications.
When the FBI got involved, it was not investigating Petraeus, at all.
The FBI should have been investigating a nominee to any Cabinet-level office...what amazes me is how deep the investigation was...one has to wonder if red flags were going up at the CIA and what, if anything, the CIA was telling its new boss about that investigation.
Personally, this whole thing reeks of a trap set by Chicago thugs....a very powerful and competent potential political adversary is nominated to a high-level post, at about that sametime or just a little before he is introduced to a woman who has never written a book before, to do a biography of an important figure in the last decade with respect to our war againt terror...and they just “happen” to have an affair? No....Obama’s cronie set a trap, and the General was stupid enough to allow himself to get ensared in it. What was allmthis is for though....what was the grand plan that they are now covering up?
When the emails involve a high official and suggest he could be open to blackmail by unknown people(s), yes.
I meant harassing EMAILs. I blame my spell checker.
And if they are bad enough yes they do.
Perhaps Petraeus told the the White House he wouldn’t lie under oath to cover for them and they decided, with the help of the MSM, to destroy his reputation in the hopes of destroying his credibility.
Everything is a smoke screen to cover the Marxist’s failed Benghazi role.
They knew a high official was involved in the beginning?
Feels that way to me too.
Best explanation I have heard so far.
Something else, far worse, is happening. This is a distraction.
And how did they know that initially....?
Petraus did not send the emails.
What COULD it be...
Obama is meeting today with the most radical of the radical, wonder what’s planned?
The election fraud and any investigations thereof.
Something to do with Obamacare...
Benghazi and all the secrets it holds...
He’s planning another golf outing.
All that extra oil we should have by 2017—he’s sold it all to China. (theory, not reality)
Let’s say you were a prez who just stole an election in a country with a very long history of, “real democracy” —what would you then do..?
You would lessen the chances of a COUP, that’s what you would do.
And I think that’s what we’re seeing.
Let’s say you were a prez who just stole an election in a country with a very long history of, “real democracy” —what would you then do..?
You would lessen the chances of a COUP, that’s what you would do.
And I think that’s what we’re seeing.
I’m wondering if anyone at the FBI investigates our president?
Bwahahahahahahahhahaaa that’s funny. The FBI part of Holder’s Justice Department.
I know you weren’t serious about asking that question.
***“There is something going on here,” apart from the sexual peccadilloes.***
This is clear. There’s a broader agenda and goal at work here. I think it is broader than Benghazi as well.
It is about consolidation of leftist control of our most important governmental departments, bureaucracies and institutions.
Ed Morrissey starts right off with a total logical impossibility: Piers Morgan is not capable of asking an interesting question, even accidentally.
From what I’ve heard, and don’t hold me to this 100%, the harassment emails sent to this other woman from Broadwell specifically named Petraus.
I share your skepticism on this point - was the FBI completely surprised that the subject of the EMAILs turned out to be Petraeus or was it obvious to them who Broadwell was talking about from the beginning?
Petraeus had to go when it was discovered it was a heterosexual affair.
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Fact One:
1) Only the POTUS can authorize a CBA (cross border authority) command for a rescue mission in a foreign nation.
Plus Fact Two:
2) No rescue mission was attempted.
Equals Fact Three:
3) 0bama turned his back on 41 State Dept. and CIA employees refusing to issue a CBA command and went to bed so he could go to Las Vegas the next day.
So we should ignore the question?
Another rabbit for the media to chase.
We already know two things that take it beyond an extra-marital affair. His gf was threatening another gov employee and she had classified docs on her computer.
Should keep them busy. It is looking like rabbits are popping up from every bush. :)
No, I was just cracking wise....
“I’m wondering if anyone at the FBI investigates our president?”
No. The President is exempt from all security investigations and clearance procedures. Congress can investigate him, but no agency of the executive branch would dare, at least not since J Edgar Hoover went toes up.
I believe an embassy is US soil.
Now that is not Good at all!
Fair enough but two questions out of curiosity:
1) Wasn’t the property technically a consulate not an embassy? Are they subject to the same policies/diplomatic status?
2) What about the safe house, airplane hangar and other sites referenced in the narrative to date? It seems that once they left the embassy/consulate they were on Libyan soil, ‘safe’ houses notwithstanding.
LOL...
I’m inclined to agree with you, for one simple reason:
There is far too much information being release too quickly for this to be the real scandal. It has all the movie-of-the-week aspects: espionage, sex, politics, and the military but it’s all too neat, too self-contained, too pat.
Media outlets uncovering this story have been left mostly alone by the Obama Character Assassination Machine. Rest assured if they start getting near the truth that Axelrod will be brought back to the TV cameras to start his smear campaign.
Might have been a thread involving John Batchelor...I think I first herd it from him on the kudlow show,.
I think you’re right, and I can’t give you an intelligent answer. Good points. I’m not sure where to find those answers either.
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