Posted on 11/14/2012 1:45:09 PM PST by NKP_Vet
A week before the election, an FBI whistleblower went to a Republican member of Congress with explosive details about a national security scandal that could have stopped President Obama’s re-election campaign dead in its tracks. But the potentially devastating “October Surprise” was hushed up by Republicans.
Although all the details are not yet available and new disclosures are coming every day, it appears that the scandal involves the CIA director leaking classified information to his mistress and the FBI not holding David Petraeus accountable for his immoral and illegal conduct. In short, it is the worst scandal of the Obama Administration and makes the third-rate burglary in the Watergate scandal look minor by comparison.
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The guy who told him was “shirtless”
So he didn’t know if it was credible or not.
If it was hushed up by Republicans then it can point to the involvement of one or more Republicans.
Not likely. If Patraeus had resigned a week before the election, it is not likely it would have made a bit of difference.
We haven't even yet gotten details that seriously impact Obama himself. Those may still come out, assuming the government/media coverup doesn't hold.
Looks like the public voted for a confirmed dumb ass that was always the last one to know.
The "whistle-blower" seems to have been a cheesy shirtless friend of the tawdry Jill Kelley. And the initial investigation was highly suspect. A few mean emails over nothing illegal. It appears the agent may have had no right to open the investigation.
Cantor did the right thing by passing it to the FBI Director who may have been unaware that Kelley and the agent were fiddling around.
I think you’re right. the Democrat ground game was not going to be overcome by any scandal. the people who voted for Obama were always going to vote for him, those republicans who stayed home were always going to stay home, as long as Romney was the candidate.
If Cantor had gone public with this, it would have backfired big time on the GOP. You can bank on that. He made the right call.
Now we find out that the top Republican leadership was also aware, and chose to do nothing and abet the cover-up when its exposure would have been the most helpful?
If Petraeus does expose the truth about Benghazi, and implicate Obama in the process, we would be heading into resignation territory. Since the election hasn't been certified by the Electoral College yet, how will the Electors feel when they are accused of voting for a President who did these things, and then covered it up by blackmailing a top General and the CIA Director just to save himself, using mob tactics?
How do we pressure the states to release their committed Electors to vote their own conscious in December or be labeled an accomplice to Obama?
-PJ
“cry baby” bohner is scared about the Revelations the FBI has been on a “j Edgar Obama” file building mission that could expose republicans who have no control over their zippers...notice no democrats were involved ...they didnt do this to JESSE JACKSON JR...they got him allegedly for misusing campaign funds like his piggybank...
in my opinion kantor and boehner cant be trusted and need to go...the notion that the HOUSE has no options to stop OBAMA is like THE BRITS caving into Hitler....
Yeah right, because if he went public we might have lost the election.
Oh wait............Never mind.
Perhaps Cantor thought he was being set up. With the evil living in the White House, that would be my first thought.
Why, because Romney was such a great success?
The electors of the Electoral College are all political hacks. They get the job based on party loyalty. No way that they abandon Obama. If technically freed to vote their conscience, they would vote for Obama anyway.
If you were Eric Cantor would you believe the luck of some whistleblower bringing a salacious scandal to you just before reelection day or might you wonder if it wasn't a dirty trick?
Oboma said if the political winds blow, he'd ALWAYS take the side of the muslims - and he did. The muslim prisoners are now free, and the Americans are dead.
Maybe Cantor thought this one was wayyyyy over his head. The big guns are going to have to deal with this one.
Romney won independents in every battleground state except NC. He won five states where the GOP senate candidates failed by getting 10s or 100s of thousands more votes than they did. He improved the GOP's vote among men, women, Jews and Latinos.
That cowardly holier-than-thous wouldn't cast a vote for him isn't his fault.
Cantor and Bonehead needs to be retired. Cantors excuse for not telling
His committee chairmen was he did not know if the tip was credible.
Yet, apparently he thought the tip was credible enough to pass onto the
FBI. I guess he and Bonehead were to busy working on this coming grandest of all bargains.
Mitt Romney proved to me in this campaign that he is an extremely fine, decent, honorable man.
He would not stoop to Obama’s gutter tactics.
Sadly that also confirms my fear about him that he was too nice a guy for the task at hand.
Cantor did the right thing by passing it to the FBI Director who may have been unaware that Kelley and the agent were fiddling around.
If he thought it was credible to pass onto the FBI, why didn’t he pass it
Onto his committee chairmen? Failed leadership.
Interesting possibility.
I would think that Benghazigate would have to be FAR worse than we thought for several dozen electors to change their designated vote from Obama to Romney.
I think they’d rather let Obama be impeached and let Biden take over, than vote for a Republican.
Don’t be ridiculous.
Probably thought the FBI agent was a 2-bit lowlife who needed to be reprimanded by the FBI Head.
How was Cantor to know how credible the shirtless agent was?
I don’t think I made my point clear.
The scandal has, to date, been a Petraus scandal, not an Obama scandal.
I strongly suspect that it will be a huge Obama scandal IF everything comes out, but you will notice that is a big IF.
Watergate would been no big deal if the media had been intent on protecting Nixon.
If Eric did, he should be FIRED and let the TEA PARTY run the house!!
Romney was a much better candidate than his campaign.
Unfortunately, Obama’s campaign was much better than Obama.
This is the bottom line for 2012.
Great post.
I totally underestimated Axlegrease, Pluffy, and Gibbs.
I figured 2008 was just a special set of circumstances and they lucked out.
Maybe the Romney folks made the same mistake.
True, but one benefit of a mushrooming scandal would be to help slow down or kill the worst of an aggressive 2nd term agenda.
Cripple him. Lame duck.
Everybody made the same mistake. Romney himself was convinced he had won on election day. He performed extremely well, perhaps brilliantly under the circumstances.
Nobody knew Obama’s team had been going block-by-block for 4 years.
That he was liberal wasn’t anyone’s fault but his own.
That is the reality of the situation.
My question is simply this: Is Petraeus going to paint a picture of a lawless president who uses mob tactics to topple military careers and get ambassadors killed just to save his own job? If so, how does one shame an Elector into not endorsing that tactic as the way to win the White House?
How do we shame anyone who thinks they can publicly endorse a blackmailer and career ruiner for president?
This is all predecated on Patraeus testifying that Obama was behind it all, or was so incompetent and disengaged that he let others run the White House for him while he played figurehead, and then hid from the consequences until after the election.
The testimony has to be so bad that even Democrats won't be willing to certify the election to such a bastard.
If Petraeus doesn't go there and instead backs up everything that Obama said, then this idea is all washed up.
-PJ
It might have made a difference if he hadn't went before congress and lied his @ss off.
Honorable and liar don't belong in the same sentence.
Wishful thinking, if Rape, BJ's from interns in the Oval, and lying under oath did not phase them, just what do you think it would take?
-PJ
It can’t be just Petraeus word. He also must have a few “blue dresses” to back himself up.
I wonder if Romney was told. He backed off the Benghazi issue for some reason. What was he told?
Patraeus will testify and say exactly what the Kenyan has told him to say or he’ll be charged with passing classified information to that gal he was messing with. No way he implicates the Kenyan wonderboy. Some one in the CIA will probably be the fall guy, but not Patraeus.
Why?
You think Cantor's blowing the whistle on an extramarital affair would have made a difference? He heard about the affair, not any dirt on why Obama let people die.
I don't agree with you.
We've been 'had' for many years now.
Isn't it just AMAZING that the undecipherable, ever-changing rules of our primary system ALWAYS gives us a RINO that nobody wants?
On top of that, our RINOs do absolutely nothing to fight the massive voter fraud being perpetrated against us in this 'modern' day. An outsider would think that they are all in it together.
Iraq had a more secure election process than we have.
Mitt 'RINO' Romney stomped Obama's ass into the ground this election but the 'official' numbers damn sure don't show it.
Sick doesn't even begin to tell how I feel.
” - - - two Republican members of Congress, Dave Reichert and Eric Cantor, decided to pass on the information to the FBI director and take no action themselves. They didn’t even inform their colleagues on the House Intelligence Committee or in the House leadership. It was a terrible mistake on their part that enabled Obama to escape the damaging repercussions of the scandal right before what many conservatives called the most important presidential election of our lifetimes. - - - “
Both of these wimpy RINOs are guilty of failing to be a check and balance to corruption in our Federal Government.
Both should resign, as they are useless in The US House.
BTW, anybody know what Dave Reichert has done in Congress?
We needed Newt. There is hardly anything nice about him. The GOPe would not allow us that.
NEWT
Our “inside trader politicians” have been co-opted, end of story.
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