Petreaus…I predicut a another shoe |
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| By: perris Saturday November 10, 2012 6:59 pm | |
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I don’t remember a republican resigning over an affair, it takes quite a bit more then that
Also, I personally don’t think a person’s personal affair, make or female, should be a factor, performance should
Therefor I think the affair is cover for a shoe that will drop in the near future.
Just saying
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In addition to the Benghazi disaster, Petraeus is being dirtied up prior to the 2016 GOP run by George Prescott Bush. Thinning the herd early.
Let’s see how the Bubba blowjob hypocrites handle this one.
I agree. Not just an affair. The affair is a smokescreen for something else.
When you look at who benefits, JEB and Marco needed Obama to win. They also need Petraeus out of the way.
Petraeus is the only guy I can think of with greater manufactured, media-hyped Rethug Star Power than Team JEB and golden boy Marco Rubio.
Illicit girlfriends of Lt. Colonels are of interest to FBI & CIC. D/CIA’s illicit girlfriends can get a rise out of the POTUS himself. Doesn’t say a thing about politics, certainly not four years out politics.
Yeah, looks like he’s choosing the lesser of two scandals.
Just a hunch, but I bet he shared state secrets with his mistress to show off and impress her. I think THIS is the reason he resigned. It has less to do with cheating on his wife and more to do with violating national security laws. But, the good old boy network in DC is protecting him by not publicly disclosing his criminal behavior. So, we’re left with the adultery side show. As usual, we American chumps are lied to because we’re lemmings!
I delved a little further into the weeds… ‘CIA chief Petraeus’ resignation not just about affair’
Thanks tut! Your link didn’t work for me but I assume you meant to post this one?
To diary author, WTF, ya think?!?!?!
Thanks for stating the most phucking OBVIOUS turd blossom since Karl Rove broke down on national tv.
MY guess, is, it’s furrin spooks, and involves AIPAC, a deep mole, and Iran blood letting.
Perris, yer usually MUCH more hep and hip to the stuff than this diary of yers.
Hope yer well. I usually like your musings . . .
Greetings!
It is possible that we will see an entire Imelda Marcos’ worth of drops coming up from this, but as someone on another blog pointed out (sorry, can’t remember where I was surfing) the kind of investigation that is going on at this moment would result in DP having his security clearance pulled. I can’t imagine any way that he could function as Head of CIA without a security clearance. It will be interesting to see where this all lands.
Happy Veteran’s Day!
Perris, you need to edit the title of this post. /editor
And Glenn Greenwald finds it remarkable that Petraeus isn’t being subjected to the media storm in the same way the other philanderers have been, because of our media’s veneration of all things military. Interesting column.
Thanks for the link: I have never understood all this glamourization of the military. No the right generation, I guess.
I bet the shoe will drop after the New Year or during the holiday season when Congress is not in session so pols won’t have to take to many questions on the subject.
I agree an affair is no reason to leave unless your a Democrat. As far as computer secrets do we really think David’s exgirl friend who is in the Reserves was thinking of selling secrets to North Korea?
Should David be more careful who has access to his computer Yes. Should he be publicly scolded Yes but has anyone else lost their job over this before…ever?
If we assume the affair is a smokescreen just why did he really resign? My bets on war profiteering sure everyone in Washington uses Clout to get firms they get cash from government contracts but the only firms that get investigated are the ones that have defective equipment that gets American troops killed.
War Crimes is also possible but unlikely.
David was investigated because emails his ex girl friend sent somehow involved some firm I wonder if David has a connection to the firm and the FBI was already investigating the firm?
Here is my vote for why David might be fired Perris
New York, August 24, 2012 — NYT eXaminer (NYTX) today published a report documenting the New York Times’ fourteen year relationship with the “global intelligence” company Stratfor.
NYTX’s report, “Unethical Record — Stratfor & the New York Times,” examines the time-frame between September, 1998 and May, 2012 to look at how the Times published Stratfor intelligence and analysis.
The report reveals how Times’ journalists sought and used Stratfor intelligence. It compares the ethical differences between the Times journalistic standards and Sratfor’s covert intelligence gathering methods. Stratfor’s methods do not exclude controlling informants by financial, sexual or psychological means.
Stratfor strategically used the paper for public relations purposes, including by spending tens-of-thousands of dollars buying their way onto the Times “bestseller” book list, the report shows.
http://www.nytexaminer.com/2012/08/press-release-global-intelligence-files-reveal-unethical-record-between-stratfor-the-new-york-times/
My bold Judy Miller was the NYT reporter who lied about WMD from 2002 – 2005 also Stratfor used sex and the NYT to spread its message.
Judy used sex and worked for the NYT was she a Stratfor plant?
In the early eighties, she shared a Georgetown house with her boyfriend, Wisconsin congressman Les Aspin—a rising star in the Democratic Party, who went on to become Bill Clinton’s first secretary of Defense. Aspin, many noted, had appeared a dozen times in Miller’s pieces, offering sage words about national security
When Reagan nominated Richard Burt to be assistant secretary of State for European affairs, Jesse Helms and other right-wingers bludgeoned him for their relationship. “It would help [your chances for confirmation],” Orrin Hatch delicately wrote to Burt, “if you could lay to rest the rumors about Judith Miller’s articles on arms control appearing so soon after your own meetings with her. . . .”
The column reported, outlandishly, that President George H. W. Bush called his resident political genius, Lee Atwater, into his office “and informed him that it might be better if he ended his very special relationship with Miller.” Hunsecker was hardly credible. He could produce some howlers, and nothing he wrote could necessarily be believed. But the point wasn’t his information, but the way he obtained it. Colleagues within the Times had come to despise Miller so greatly that they apparently picked up the phone, called Spy, and dished their hearts out.
When Colonel Richard McPhee ordered MET Alpha to pull back from a search mission and regroup in the town of Talil, Miller disagreed vehemently with the decision—and let her opinions be loudly known. The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz reprinted a note in which she told public-affairs officers that she would write negatively about his decision if McPhee didn’t back down. What’s more, Kurtz reported that Miller complained to her friend Major General David Petraeus. Even though McPhee’s unit fell outside the general’s line of command, Petraeus’s rank gave his recommendation serious heft. According to Kurtz, in an account that was later denied, “McPhee rescinded his withdrawal order after Petraeus advised him to do so.”
So a suspected mole of Stratfor a firm that uses Sex and the NYT to push stories had pull with General David Petraeus maybe the FBI is looking at this for some reason we don’t know yet but General David Petraeus was told to resign now before the truth became public?
Maybe it has something to do with this UK security firm they used to protect the “consulate”.