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2013-05-13 Home Front: Politix
ABC: Petraeus called final Benghazi talking points “useless” the day before Rice’s full Ginsburg
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Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-05-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 I am thinking NOW that the FBI hit job on Petraeus was to discredit him and shut him up over Benghazi.

I think the two are interrelated.

This is going to get very messy and very interesting.

When the feces really hit the oscillator on this one next week, I wonder how the MSM is going to play it...we saw the New Yorker suddenly turn the corner...as if the evidence wasn't there from the beginning.
Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-05-13 00:34||   2013-05-13 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 In a nutshell, in the case of Benghazi IMO "dereliction of duty" as de facto "impeachable" offenses actually should be interpreted as MALICIOUS CALCULATED MURDER, i.e. intentional/deliberate breaking of mandated or required actions, regulations, + protocolsbecause it was better or easier iff someone or some persons were to die, NOT JUST "INCOMPETENCE" OR "DERELICTION" PER SE.

To impeach the Bammer, the GOP-Right has to prove that the Bammer's actions were NOT just errors in judgement or conclusions, or even genuine incompetency - ANYTHING LESS WOULD BE SEEN AS WINNER-TAKE-ALL, DEVIL-MAY CARE POL DESPERATION + CONSPIRACY ON THE PART OF THE GOP-RIGHT TO WIN THE 2014 MIDTERMS + ULTIMATELY 2016 IRREGARDLESS IFF INNOCENTS WERE HARMED.

Better to step back + think things over thrice, etc. before taking one irreversible step.

* FYI IIRC DRUDGEREPORT > RAND: OBAMA WORKING WID ANTI-AMERICAN GLOBALISTS.

In this issue are matters of National Sovereignty, Constitutionality, + related ignorance or bypass of the Electorate.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-05-13 01:26||   2013-05-13 01:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Retrieving my tin foil hat from it rack, I still think the Petraeus compromise was orchestrated. Brodwell was simply too good looking and the Broadwell book co-author [the now very silent] Vernon Loeb is just too well connected within the CIA, D.C. establishment, and the media for my liking.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-13 02:43||   2013-05-13 02:43|| Front Page Top

#4 If the good general keeps his pants zipped there is no hit on him.

I think this idea of the White House orchestrating a hit on the man by enticing him with a good-looking woman -- a domestic 'honey trap', if you will -- is just a tad off-base.
Posted by Steve White 2013-05-13 07:33||   2013-05-13 07:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Respectfully, Besoeker, I'd save the tin foil hat for another time. I've no doubt Petraeus was blackmailed. But I find a set-up or a honey trap highly implausible. Look around you: hot women fall for fugly-looking dudes all the time. If an alpha female doesn't feel hot at home - as a married mother of two probably did not anymore - parallel hotness is not what they're after.
Posted by RandomJD 2013-05-13 07:43||   2013-05-13 07:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Hat back on the rack RandomJD. I've just been racking my pea brain for months over how a brilliant mind like Petraeus could permit himself to fall into a situation like that. Very disappointing. I'm simply searching for answers, possibilities beyond the obvious.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-13 08:52||   2013-05-13 08:52|| Front Page Top

#7 If Benghazi had not happened, the Petraeus/Broadwell affair would have been ignored by the FBI. I think they felt they had to get Petraeus out of the way to sell the narrative they wanted to sell.
It wasn't a honey trap, it was an opportunity to get a bothersome critic of Benghazi discredited.

There are affairs all over Washington. Beautiful well educated women live in DC in swarms and they will pounce on any person in a position of authority/the alpha dog any chance they get.

And yes, if Petraeus had kept his pants zipped, it would not have happened AND they would have found some other SOMETHING to keep him quiet.
Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-05-13 10:00||   2013-05-13 10:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Put your hat back on.
Posted by bman 2013-05-13 10:29||   2013-05-13 10:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Beautiful well educated women live in DC in swarms...Bill Clinton.

These people can be easily escaped. Simply walk through the tunnel from the Pentagon and visit SINE' in Crystal City. Travel time 15 minutes.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-13 10:31||   2013-05-13 10:31|| Front Page Top

#10 The Obama regime is now trying Benghazi deflection dance again. Throwing the IRS under the bus the last few days and trying to make it big news.

Executive branch chewing off its own fingers and toes to try to save the hand and foot. The regimne is acting like it is caught in a bear trap.
Posted by Thaique Squank4053 2013-05-13 10:43||   2013-05-13 10:43|| Front Page Top

#11 It's all political 'fun & games.' AFAICT most of the PEOPLE don't care: Here in Rantburg one gets a very unrepresentative sample of caring; elsewhere it's 'American Idol' or whatever, EBT cards, and sleeping late.
Posted by Glenmore 2013-05-13 11:01||   2013-05-13 11:01|| Front Page Top

#12 Ha ha ha, Bosoeker. That's why I hang out at Sine'. And Shelley's Backroom Tavern. I cannot rate my own beauty but I find it prudent to avoid competition. ;)

In all seriousness: the answer is, the brilliant ones are flawed human beings too. Irrational, weak, capable of behaving completely out of character. I bet Petraeus didn't realize he'd fallen into any "situation" at all, until he was already in it.
Posted by RandomJD 2013-05-13 13:05||   2013-05-13 13:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Look around you: hot women fall for fugly-looking dudes all the time.

I can personally confirm this!
Posted by Secret Asian Man 2013-05-13 13:27||   2013-05-13 13:27|| Front Page Top

#14 The next Rantapalooza just has to be at SINE'...
Posted by Steve White 2013-05-13 15:03||   2013-05-13 15:03|| Front Page Top

#15 I'd be willing to bet that Petraeus has a "stone bucket" tucked away somewhere.
Posted by Muggsy Mussolini1226 2013-05-13 15:44||   2013-05-13 15:44|| Front Page Top

#16 Would not be surprised if the General testifies;nothing to lose and Bambi has already shot his wad.
Posted by USN,ret 2013-05-13 21:02||   2013-05-13 21:02|| Front Page Top

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