Who to believe...who to believe...
I haven’t heard that since the Clinton days.
All of these communications would have been recorded. I expect that the incriminating portions have already been expunged. As for whether there were specific requests for assistance, being told “we’re under attack by a well armed and sizeable force” is more than sufficient to warrant a response from CIA headquarters. How could they not have asked the most basic questions of their people at the Annex: What is the current situation? Are you holding your perimeter? Have their been any casualties? What weapons do you have? What weapons do the enemy have? DO YOU REQUIRE ASSISTANCE? We are being asked to believe that the Director of the CIA, an experienced military commander, didn’t do anything because people under attack didn’t ask???
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83652.html
Michael Morell
Now the acting director, Morell served as deputy CIA director to Petraeus since 2010. He has been the agency’s director of Asian Pacific and Latin American Analysis and the briefer of presidents on national security matters.
In that position, according to a White House aide, Morell often briefed Obama as the United States closed in on Osama bin Laden, earning the president’s trust and developing a close relationship with him.
Morell is “extraordinarily well respected in the White House, across the intelligence community and throughout the national security establishment,” the aide said, discussing the deputy’s elevation to acting director.
The smartest thing Petraeus did was to form a partnership early on with Michael Morell, who was acting director before his arrival and resumed that role Friday. Morell is a career analyst and veteran of the mill that produces the famous “PDB,” or president’s daily brief, and he knew the agency’s culture — or at least the analysts’ version of it. His task was to encourage Petraeus when his commander’s instincts made sense for the agency, and dissuade him when his ideas were counter-productive.
Michael J. Morell: Introducing the CIA’s New Acting Director
It’s going to take more than “unnamed sources” to take down Obama.