Posted on 11/18/2012 4:42:58 AM PST by IbJensen
In late October, an FBI agent and whistleblower brought a story of possible Bureau corruption to Republican House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor. It was a story of Obama Regime operatives deliberately sacrificing the national security interests of the United States for the president’s political gain.
And what did the Republican house leader do with that information which—10 days before the election–could have shown that Barack Obama placed his own political advantage above the security of the nation? Why naturally he took the story to just one person–Obama appointee, FBI Director Robert Mueller, the very man who would have been responsible for the betrayal of those security interests in the first place!
On October 27th, Tampa FBI field agent Fred Humphries contacted US Representative David Reichert and told him that the FBI was dragging its feet in an investigation of possible national security leaks. Reichert directed Humphries to the far more politically powerful Eric Cantor who, along with staff members, met with Humphries.
The investigation had been prompted by Humphries when family friend Jill Kelley told the agent that she had received numerous emails which she considered threatening. Humphries took the story to Tampa FBI office higher-ups and the investigation led to Paula Broadwell, mistress of General David Petraeus.
Though the investigation had begun in late spring, little had transpired by October and Humphries began to suspect that FBI officials were deliberately delaying and covering up in order to spare Barack Obama and the administration any political embarrassment. After all, Obama had put Petraeus in charge of the CIA, the most important, sensitive information gathering agency in the government. The sudden, public explosion of an FBI investigation which included a sex scandal and possible national security leaks connected to the president’s man at the Agency would not have helped the Obama campaign.
Most importantly, as a result of his actions, Petraeus had become a prime target for blackmail, given his status as CIA Director and former commanding general in the Middle East. Could he have been passing restricted material to Broadwell or others? Clearly it was vitally important that the FBI find out!
After meeting with Humphries, Cantor and his staff decided they were “…unable to act on the information [Humphries] was giving them because they doubted his credibility.” Well don’t United States congressmen have the ability to check on the “credibility” and background of an FBI agent? Cantor would have discovered that Humphries had single-handedly foiled a terror plot and been commended for his service to the nation and the American people. But the congressman doubted his credibility. Funny, Cantor didn’t doubt the credibility of Obama Administration operative Robert Mueller. (1)
And what did FBI Director Mueller do with the Humphries-supplied information he received from Eric Cantor on October 31st? He waited one full week until November 6th, Election Day, “…to [meet with] James Clapper, the director of national intelligence and David Petraeus’ immediate supervisor…” We have now learned that the House Judiciary Committee “…has written to Robert Mueller to ask why it took him a week to come forward with the information that Frederick Humphries had given him.” (Humphries through Eric Cantor, but Humphries nonetheless!) (1)
So a Republican congressman and House leader had been given information which might have stopped the Obama campaign cold, causing massive embarrassment and difficulty for the man Cantor himself had accused of “instituting an imperial presidency,” mismanaging U.S. foreign policy and the war on terrorism and “…covering up what really happened when four Americans were killed in Benghazi…” (2)
But rather than act in the best interests of the American people by making Humphries’ story public, by going to Mueller Cantor put the agent’s career in jeopardy and provided yet another target for the liberal media and the Obama Regime.
It seems Republican cowardice and stupidity grow with each passing year.
Eric has been a sell for years. I have stated here before and took crap. I will say it again. Eric is a sell out.
Straight out of the “Whiskey Priest” episode of Yes, Minister.
Straight out of the “Whiskey Priest” episode of Yes, Minister.
Nothing but chicken$hit politicians and Cantor sure fills the bill as one of them.
Not even close to being true..at the very least Cantor could have passed the information to another member willing to stand up on their hind legs and fight. I'm also sure every Republican challenger, including Romney and Mourlock, would have benefited from the explosive and damaging news that Congress and the American people were being kept in the dark about the Petreus affair investigation.
Why is it being walled off from Obama so successfully now then? How has Obama been damaged by the week of reporting about Petraeus’ affair? Why would it have been different during all the Sandy coverage that was taking place during the week before the election? I just can’t see it making any difference at all.
Deal with it.
He testified before Congress that the YouTube video was the reason. (LIE) Then he resigned, he said, because he had an affair. The affair was true, I doubt that is the reason he resigned.
Cantor has made many many mistakes. This wasn't one of them.
Hey, this damned entire mess is so convoluted that it doesn’t matter that anybody does anything about it!
‘Duty, honor, country’ never enters into the minds of these later-day generals who wear forty pounds of ribbons and medals on their tunics, not because they have to, rather because it’s all about ‘me’ today!
Completely unravelled this is no doubt a nightmare. The Jill socialite character is responsible for the high number of muslims working in the White Hut now for Bronco Bama.
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