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Petraeus Will Testify on Benghazi Behind Closed Doors on Friday

Nov. 14, 2012 10:40pm Jason Howerton

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former CIA Director David Petraeus will testify before the House Intelligence committee Friday on events that led to the death of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in an attack on the U.S. Consulate at Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11.

Spokesmen for the committee say the hearing will be closed to the public.

Petraeus resigned from the CIA last week after acknowledging an extramarital affair. The liaison was discovered during an FBI investigation of harassing emails allegedly sent by Petraeus’ biographer and mistress, Paula Broadwell, to Tampa socialite Jill Kelley. Broadwell allegedly saw Kelley as a rival.

The probe expanded to include Kelley’s copious communications with the top U.S. commander In Afghanistan, Marine Gen. John Allen.

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american beauty
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:23pm
I hope the general tells all his is pretty much in ruins . He should spill his guts and leave his family with the legecy of honor and screw this administration

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oldincarolina
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 9:48am
Behind closed doors?? What happened to the transparency that King Obo was promising? Or was that just another lie to add to the list …and we do have a list..a very long list.

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lynnissmart
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 9:33am
They will get nothing out of the general (low caps for lying)….he will stick to his story, purger himself because his family has probably been threatened!

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Niruba
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 8:45am
Obama gets away again. If nobody is allowed to hear the truth it will never resolve. Half the country did not want this man as a president. He talks as if this was some unanimous vote. I truly believe that Obama has been like a sneaky rat up until he got re-elected. Now he has nothing to lose and we are going to be ruined by him as he levels the playing field and weakens my beautiful homeland.

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- rd11ok
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:04pm
  Hope you are wrong, my friend, but I believe you are right. Spot on.
  
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SaturdaysWarrior76
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 8:41am
Nothing will come of this sadly. We all know it. I am praying for just ONE person to have the courage to stand up and tell the truth regardless of the consequences. Doesn’t that one person know America will have his/her back? We would stand with anyone, ANYONE who would simply have the backbone to tell the absolute truth. This administration must have everyone in Washington completely afraid to speak out. :(
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ColoradoMaverick
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 8:08am
The most transparent administration??

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ClaudeRains
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 7:24am
BS! This should be done in public. Why even bother?

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Mallarde
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 6:06am
It sounds as though the focus will shift to Gen. Allen rather dramatically. Some of his emails came out and they are not pretty. He might be spending some time away from home.

http://www.lightlybraisedturnip.com/allen-emails-to-kelley-leak/

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Master.Debater
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 6:03am
I can see Petraeus, as CIA director, testifying in closed session, but there are plenty of others up to their necks in this who need to be testifying in open session. But I don’t expect that to happen unless the Republicans in the House demand it. If all testimony from here on out is in closed session, it makes it easier for the Obama media to ignore it.

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asybot12
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 2:51am
Dang I am reading all of this cr.p on a Wednesday night I thought the kiddies were in school or in bed !

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- RobKraft
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 5:37am
  It’s not oingto make a twit of difference, he administration has already so badly damaged his reputation it won’t matter what he says. Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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- asybot12
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 5:55am
  well I was just wondering who was buying the donuts for the session ?
  
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The-Monk
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 1:46am
“Petraeus Will Testify on Benghazi Behind Close Doors on Friday”

Wasn’t his problem doing things “Behind Close Doors” in the first place?

Oh Snap!

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- SaturdaysWarrior76
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 8:36am
  Heh! :)
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 1:05am
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Of course Petraeus will testify on Benghazi, behind closed doors.
Obama doesn’t want the public to hear the truth about why our people in Benghazi were left defenseless, on the 11th anniversary of 9-11.

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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 2:22am
  He is the former director of the CIA testifying on security arrangements at a U. S embassy and the role of the CIA in an incident in a foreign country. In what universe did you guys imagine that this could ever possibly have been done in an open session?
  
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- asybot12
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 2:48am
  Because CHET your fearless leader said his government would always be transparent. And seeing that thanks to the IN everyone knows anything that is happening anyhow. All of your liberal henchmen have their “collective” butts covered like all “collective” communists do! Oh and please have your fearless or “Dear” leader quit calling us “folks” I am not one of his “folks” it is an insult.I am a MAN!
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:57am
  Theirs transparent, and then there’s idiotic. Even if there were no other secrets in any other government agency, a CIA Director testifying about CIA activities would mean a closed session. It doesn’t matter who the President is. There’s never been an administration under which a CIA Director would testify about CIA operations in an open session, and there never will be.
  
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- asybot12
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 5:59am
  Sorry Chet this is one time when four of your countrymen were killed while their bosses were watching on a live feed. How much behind closed doors do you want to stay? HU?
  
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- Pitcher
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 7:11am
  Chet, yes your right about being a past CIA director. He has made some mistakes that have messed his life up. He has come open about his personal life. He now has a chance to restore his Honor by being honest. Yes he is behind the curtain tomorrow but he should willingly go to open hearings. Protecting secrets of illegal operations would not be the honorable thing for him to do. If this administration is conducting an illegal gunrunning operation in Benghazi and Syria or and they were interrogating prisoners (maybe waterboarding) in Benghazi against BHO public policy this all should be public information. The public really needed to know this before the election but BHO has been stonewalling. The public needs to know who they elected. I do not believe that illegal activity would have been conducted by the Ambassador or the CIA except by the direct request of the President. This is a choice for another soldier to end his career in an honorable way. John Kerry ended his career with a dishonorable discharge from me. I understand the General is a personal friend of his. I pray the General doesn’t take advice from this friend and that he does the right thing.
  
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TurboCat
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:56am
Mr. Garbage: When has President O-blame-a ever taken ANY responsibility for ANYTHING?

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BenjaminsEx
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:34am
@Glenbeckisgarbage

Doom on you, Dude. I’m thinkin’ you just won a dinner date with the devil and you’re late!

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Icebox
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:13am
A legacy of ashes.

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TelepromoterNChief
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:08am
I have the hope that this four star adulturer will step up, be a man and act on his Army Values.
However, he is just an old dog stuck in his ways.
Obama will be the usual hero in all this.

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nzkiwi
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:51pm
It would be good for America to see a public testimony, but this is a start.

I am glad that the whole thing hasn’t just been ignored.

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Keatonc333
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:47pm
We need to get this rat to testefy in front of a tv camera so we can all see what him and his muslim marxist commie friends are hiding! Comrad Patreas! just another one of Obamalogna lap dogs! end the liberal baby slaying regime! NOW!
America, America, God’s grace and tis on thee!

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Keatonc333
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:39pm
Remember a few days.. and hours ago when you all were claiming Obama forced Patraeus out so he didn’t have to testify? Beck talked about it yesterday… well.. HA!

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Advection
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:05pm
The fact that Obama gave a news conference today in which he said nothing, while Clinton fled to South America, told me that they’re still forming an alibis.

Petraeus is the wild card. They’ve been shooting warning shots across his bow for days, so they must be terrified of what he knows. Can Congress grant him immunity from prosecution?

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- GlenBeckisGarbage
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:10pm
  You in your basement with a poster board with lines all tacked out. You got this conspirousy all wrapped up.
  I got such a good laugh from reading this.
  It couldn’t Clinton went on vacation and Obama came out and told us what he could with out risking nation security.
  
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- midwesthippie
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:29pm
  …more shenanigans from our one party FEDGOV…
  
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- JL320
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:32pm
  @Bsckisgarbage, I see you just signed up and are posting every 2 to 3 minutes. Tell me, how is that Obama cokmeat sandwich tasting?
  
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- marine249
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:41pm
  @ Glenbeckisgarbage
  
  and from which rock on east coast or the
  left coast, did you just crawl out from under
  be a nice troll and go back under.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:43pm
  LJ you’re just jealous that no one wants your cokmeat!
  
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- marine249
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:52pm
  @333
  GET IT RIGHT IT’S JL not LJ
  
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- Globmgmt
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:46am
  Great Post -
  
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drenfroe
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:03pm
Good that’s the way it should be.

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neverending
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:55pm
Of course the weasel will only testify behind closed doors. All the more reason to know he is just another sorry sob.

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:44pm
  Are you at all familiar with the term NATIONAL SECURITY?
  
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- GUAPOKOVSKI
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 1:05pm
  “Are you at all familiar with the term NATIONAL SECURITY?”
  
  Yep, What if the CIA spooks actually did have some Libyan radicals in custody and were treating them to some “enhanced interrogation” techniques? Every radical within a thousand square miles would get their towel hats in a wad, not to mention screams of “Abu Ghraib” here at home.
  
  The closed door testimony will merely delay any negative consequences due to these possible revelations and will surely be leaked by those with less than honorable motives.
  
  Just sayin’
  
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GlenBeckisGarbage
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:49pm
So there you go. National security takes time, but america wants it now. Time to grow up. Everything with the government takes time. Hurry up and wait is pretty much all the army is for lower enlisted. Has the DMV or the IRS hurried up for you? Its just how the government is.

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- JP4JOY
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:36pm
  Talk about getting an education, where did you get yours? Grammar is important you know, re-read some of your atrocious posts.
  
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- rebelguns
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 5:58am
  Four dead Americans as a result. Because, as you say GARBAGE, “national security takes time…it’s just how the gov’t is.” You, little man, are garbage, and a waste of skin. Time to take out the trash.
  
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RLTW
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:48pm
David, do you see the sword? Jump and impale yourself for the American people and you may recover a bit of the character you once had.

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mbean
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:47pm
In secret, protect Obama at all costs……..

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- GlenBeckisGarbage
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:50pm
  Its something called clearance and nation security. Remember Bush used it a lot while telling us ******** about WMD’s that never existed.
  
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- RLTW
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:57pm
  Garbage, you are **** cabbage!
  
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- kiwi1
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:04pm
  Oh and don’t ever forget whatever Bad thing that happened or is happening or may happen, remember “It’s Bush’s Fault”… Right Mr. Garbage?
  
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- GlenBeckisGarbage
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:07pm
  @RLTW
  
  I love how morons with nothing to say always turn to personal atks. Your pathetic get and education BOY.
  lol
  
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- GlenBeckisGarbage
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:12pm
  @KIWI1
  
  What does this guys failures have to do with anyone’s presidency?
  Oh, your trying to be funny. Please try harder.
  
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- kiwi1
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:19pm
  You are a typical Progressive/Commie Mr. Garbage you have a user name of GlenbeckisGarbage and then accuse other people of making personal attacks…
  
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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:54am
  GARB, you’re a regular huckster. Having fun yucking it up are we?
  
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- woody4_rom828
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 2:50am
  @Garbage,
  Your, excuse me, “you’re” grammar is killing me!
  
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- RETIREDUSAFDEFENDER
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:18pm
  @ Garbage, dont you think it is funny how we know more in two days about the Generals affairs than we do about Fast and Furious and Benghazi? This whole affair thing is smoke and mirrors for the administration to draw attention away from them screwing up, much worse than Bush did!!!
  
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