"Do you mind if we dance wif yo dates?"
Posted on 01/20/2016 11:15:27 AM PST by TigerClaws
Defense Secretary Ash Carter is reportedly considering retroactively demoting retired General David Petraeus, amid a crackdown on generals who engage in misconduct.
The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that the Pentagon is in the process of considering the move against Petraeus, who admitted giving classified information to his mistress and biographer before he retired.
The decision now rests with Carter, who is said to be mulling overruling a prior Army recommendation that the general should not be demoted.
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Then Cruz and Trump and Rubio should publicly vow to restore Petraeus’s status retroactively, pardon him, and restore him to duty if he wishes. Petraeus leaked to his biographer. The Arkansas Medusa published secrets ABOVE top secret classification to intelligence operatives of ISIS, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Red China, and her other allies and her fellow enemies of the USA.
Trump should name him as a SecDef candidate now...bring it on, Obama.
I’m with you on that one! General officers, like politicians, have a different set of rules that apply to them. Four stars are “demoted” to two stars and retired, while sergeants go to Leavenworth. And yes, I’m a retired officer - just not a flag officer.
Undoubtedly, as part of his grand entrance, he’ll ride in on a white, retarded horse and say something monumentally, but characteristically stupid that the mainstream media will ignore.
There is a difference between David Petraeus and ANYTHING associated with Obozo's treasonweasel administration: We trust Petraeus in spite of his lapse of judgment in this one instance.
That lapse in judgement would have sent anyone else to prison. What makes Petraeus above the law? Yes he was a great General,yes he is a Patriot, but he still broke the damn law and got off easier than you or I would have.
The answer why now is obvious. He went before the Benghazi committee and spilled the beans.
What’s YOUR problem with Petraeus? Was he suggesting a tryst with a loved one of yours? Note I waited until at least your fourth post to respond. You seem to have precious little of relevance to get you worked up.
Here’s what bothers me: grade determinations must be done before the service member retires. If they made a determination and processed his retirement package, and his retirement date has come and gone, it should be too late to revise.
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Now I gotta worry about some of the capers I pulled and that they may come after my good conduct ribbon 40 plus years after the fact.
My problem with Petraeus comes from the fact that I’m a Marine with a clearance. I’m retired from active duty, but work for DOD as a contractor. If I or any of the guys I work with do what he did, we would be put in prision. As a General Officer he had to know that what he was doing was against the law. He should be held accountable the same way I would be. How many soldiers did he recommend for court martial for doing the same crap he did? I’m sure there were a few. He got off easy. His life wasn’t ruined, he still gets a nice pension and he is paid well for speaking engagements. That would not be the case for you or I.
Petraeus must not be pimping the Administration properly .... thought that was a requirement of his probation ... pimp Benghazi Clinton and His Arrogance.
The general will lose $100s of thousands in pensions and payments that have to be returned. But he can more than make that up with speeches about his work in the Obama administration specifically Benghazi. One more nail in Hilary's political coffin.
They only have to keep them shut for 12 more months, then the flood gates will open!
Dates? We don't mind no stinking dates. We're Democrats.
"Do you mind if we dance wif yo dates?"
Saves a buck on his retirement pay.
By a one way trip to the gallows.
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