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Petraeus Testified That He Knew Libya Was Terrorism From the Start, Rep. Peter King Reveals

Nov. 16, 2012 10:00am Madeleine Morgenstern

Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said former CIA Director David Petraeus told lawmakers Friday that he believed all along that terrorists were involved in attacking the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya — at odds with his initial testimony two months ago when he labeled the Sept. 11 assault a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Islam video.

“General Petraeus’ testimony today was that from the start he told us that this was a terrorist attack, that terrorists were involved from the start,” King told reporters after the closed-door hearing before the House intelligence committee. “I told him in my question I had a very different recollection of that.”

King added, “The clear impression we were given was that the overwhelming amount of evidence was that it arose out of a spontaneous demonstration and it was not a terrorist attack…he has I think a different impression of the impressions he left on Sept. 14.”

King said a CIA analyst with Petraeus testified that the agency’s talking points for the White House immediately after the attack were specific about Al-Qaeda terrorist involvement but that the line was apparently removed from the final version of events.

“After it went through the process…that was taken out,” King said.

United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice said on Sept. 16 that the best information available indicated the Benghazi attacks were prompted by the video. It took the White House about a week to label them terrorism.

King called the proceedings “very cordial” and said everyone thanked Petraeus for his service following his resignation one week ago after admitting to an extramarital affair.

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neverending
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:24am
Thanked him for what? His true self obviously showed up.

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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 12:10pm
  If the defense cuts are implemented as bozo intends to this base in the Azores could be on the chopping block. The Chicoms would love to set up shop here
  
  Air Base No. 4. Better known as Lajes Field, the facility where Premier Wen’s 747 landed in June is jointly operated by the U.S. Air Force and its Portuguese counterpart. If China controlled the base, the Atlantic would no longer be secure. From the 10,865-foot runway on the northeast edge of the island, Chinese planes could patrol the northern and central portions of the Atlantic and thereby cut air and sea traffic between the U.S. and Europe. Beijing would also be able to deny access to the nearby Mediterranean Sea.
  
  And China could target the American homeland. Lajes is less than 2,300 miles from New York, shorter than the distance between Pearl Harbor and Los Angeles.
  
  http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/332454/red-flag-over-atlantic-gordon-g-chang#
  
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- desertspeaks
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:24pm
  SOMEONE in the obama administration not only redacted the talking points and removed any and all references to al qaeda and terrorists! This is definitive of GIVING AID AND COMFORT to a KNOWN ENEMY of the united states of America, a high crime and misdemeanor!! AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE!!!
  
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- Thinkingman777
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:36pm
  I’m glad you and this other guy posting against Petareus live such impeccable lives that you can summarily condemn all the years of service this man has given for his country. I wonder if either of you men have ever “looked upon a woman to lust after her in your heart”? You have? Well, your children ought to dismiss the years of being a provider and father to them based on your moral failure (sin). What Patraeus did was wrong. He owned up to his sin. He stepped down from a high ranking position in the military. He’s coming clean now with Congress. Get over yourselves men, I seriously doubt that either one of you would have the courage to face what he is facing now. Instead of a lynching, why don’t we get down to all the facts, and if they reveal TREASON, let’s talk about removing our newly re-elected President from the White House.
  
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- AZRACISTBIGOT
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:50pm
  In Petreas’s defense, he had the Cajones to tell the truth in the hearing. Limbaugh was convinced that he would cover for the administration if he was put on the stand. I’m glad he was wrong.
  
  In spite of his poor personal choices of late, he had a long distingished and honorable carrer in the military and I respect him for that and for being honest in his answers to Congress.
  
  O’Bozo and all of his czars, whack job advisors and fellow corruptocrats wouldn’t recognize truth and honor if it hit them in the face.
  
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- SweetOlBob
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 3:18pm
  Neverending: Didn’t someone once say “Judge Not” ?
  Did you ever consider that Petarus may have confessed and cost himself tons of reputation and postiton BECAUSE he was being blackmailed to say lies about the attack on and murder of our Ambassador and brave citizens. Judging from the past behavior of our serial liar president, such a theory becomes reasonable to consider. What if he just beat Obama to the punch. If he know it was coming, wouldn’t it be better to admit what did himself rather than have a sanctimounius fingerpointed at him by Obama and his captive press.
  Think about it before you climb to your pulpit.
  
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- Veteran Patriot
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 3:33pm
  @Desertspeaks
  
  There is no misdemeanor here. What this administration has committed are High Crimes and FELONIES!
  
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- jblovesAmerica
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 4:23pm
  Duty
  honor
  country
  the gen. Forgot?????
  He lived it his whole life and now forgets
  he is now a political hack
  instead of a warrior
  shame
  
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- wordsofwisdom
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 4:37pm
  Wonders will never cease to amaze me. We are thanking him for saying he doesn’t know anything about the talking points that Susan Rice used but his were right. In other words not me & I can’t help you with your problem! You got to love it. We are a bunch of idiots! We think these people have integrity & will tell the truth. How stupid is that? It’s like we live in a fantasy & we are not willing to see the facts. This story is so stupid & obvious as to what really happened but since we don’t have an eye witness as proof nobody will be held responsible. See no evil speak no evil hear no evil everybody walks because these stupid Americans are handcuffed by our stone wall! They can do what ever they want if nobody talks! “What’s Wrong With This Song” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_9134749
  Got to love it
  
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- Twisted Mind
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 6:17pm
  sweetolbob Doing a lot of judging there are’t you buddy
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 6:24pm
  We are not judging his affair. Stop being so dumb and conflating the two issues like the left did and wants you to do as well.
  
  The general LIED in his original testimony before the House Intel Committee. So now he says he doesn’t remember he lied? Pleeze. Dana Perino had already pointed out that the al-Qaeda reference had been scrubbed from the original report by the Hussein gang. I, for one, knew it too. So? Doesn’t the general have a mouth of his own? He could have tendered his resignation immediately and told the truth in his first briefing to Congress, BEFORE the election.
  
  There is no question in my mind that the general was blackmailed, and since he continues to lie about it, the logical conclusion is that he is STILL being blackmailed. Hussein has info on Petraeus (pics/videos, methinks) that will keep him from ever telling us that he was blackmailed by the Traitor and his FBI.
  
  Scandals and X-gates do not exist in Obamanation. We either live with a commie Muslim in the WH, or not. Those are the two options.
  
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- GregClyde
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 6:35pm
  I think they should all be water-boarded. We are not getting the truth.
  
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- I.Heart.America
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 7:17pm
  From The Republican Insider….IMPORTANT…PLEASE READ!!!! Read the comments too!!!
  
  “Petraeus gave us an opportunity..now we need all of YOUR help”
  
  http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/11/16/republican-insider-petraeus-gave-us-an-opportunity-now-we-need-all-of-your-help/
  
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- I.Heart.America
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 7:41pm
  WhiteHouse.Gov Petition To Impeach Obama
  
  https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/we-request-obama-be-impeached-following-reasons/cpk4V6zK
  
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- I.Heart.America
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 8:06pm
  WHO is above Patraeus?? That would be Janet Napolitano of Homeland Security. SHE would do the editing but ONLY if Obama said it was ok?…right??? hmmmmmmm
  
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- I.Heart.America
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 8:25pm
  KEEP THE PRESSURE ON CONGRESS PATRIOTS!!! SIGN BOTH AND SHARE THE LINKS!!
  
  http://www.petition2congress.com/8222/petition-recount-on-2012-presidential-election/
  
  http://www.petition2congress.com/8269/urgent-new-presidential-congressional-election/
  
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- I.Heart.America
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 9:08pm
  There are sixty million voters who support the Republican Party… the Tea Party and various conservative groups. Get out the information about election fraud AND Sign the petitions
  
  We ALL REFUSE to accept the 2012 Election Results!!!!!!!
  
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- I.Heart.America
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 9:19pm
  Barack Obama Voter Fraud 2012
  
  http://obamavoterfraud.blogspot.com/
  
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- GETLIFE
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 4:12am
  IHEART,
  I am not going on whitehouse.gov to sign anything.
  
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- GETLIFE
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 4:26am
  KRYPTONITE,
  Because of all the distractions, we keep forgetting that there is evidence that there were covert operations going on in Benghazi that the wh does not want us to know about. The Broadwell affair smokescreen has somewhat worked because it has you thinking about as yet unreleased pics or videos. MEthinks it’s more like arms smuggling to islamist radicals in Syria. Treasonous.
  
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- neiltome
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 4:11pm
  Here is what you need to know. Beck is largely correct when he posits that Benghazi was intended by the admin (obama.) But this is the reality: the muslim hive mind hates nothing in existence more than their great satan, the u.s. but at the the top of that pyramid is the cia. the cia represents the cherry on top to the muslim hive, because it is through that agency that they saw the effects of the SAVAK, et al, through every last tinhorn dickwad that acted as our puppet since 1948, including Begin, et al. Ok,fine, that reality has is water under now, it’s done. While the so called event of Benghazi seems to be some distant isolated bad thing that must have happened only because it’s on the news to most americans, the fact is that it is nothing more than a crumb of respect given to the muslim hivemind to celebrate their coming of age in the 9/11 “event”. Glenn believes it was to cover a gun running op; maybe so and indeed, but that would have been a fortuitous twofer by chance. obamas other brother darryl, bin laden, could have chosen to plant airliners into disneyland, or the superbowl, or any other target that would have killed many more. he could have also struck a militarily important site, water sources, power generation, nuke plants, et al.
  
  he chose a psy ops target instead. and did well, pound for pound he achieved the greatest military / psy ops victory of all time.
  
  long story short, oniggra literally and personally handed the consulate, and stephens
  
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- neiltome
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 4:17pm
  as part of, to the “action / military” wing of the mus hive, as a celebration and marker of continued progress and continued ownership of the office of the potus and the inroads into the u.s. operating system, e.g. the d.c. machinery in order to keep the movement both alive and obeying the pace and cadence suggested by the overall puppet masters, whether they be defined as the soros clan, the old school mob rule of the consortium of the left wing idiots that don’t realize they will always be column b of the menu that they are preparing, or the monetary momentum of the growth of power of the opec / mus hive that is funded by cubic dollars.
  
  if any can follow this, great. if you reject it, shame on you for being fooled twice. these are just a highlight reel of the simple facts that have constructed the groundwork that we now have to deal with because it is the only platform we have to work with to deal with, control, and otherwise influence our own future.
  
  so, comment? realization? fact check? anyone? anyone? bueller? ….
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:18am
Obama has done many things that are impeachable. He is a travesty and a curse on the country. The question that we will see answered is does the rest of this sickening regime have the testicles to put the blame on obama as it should be or will they save him because he is black. Petraeous has testified and it is rumored he stuck by his guns and told the panel he called the Benghazi attack a terrorist attack from the beginning and of course the regime ‘has a different recollection of that’. The regime is a bunch of liars and communists.

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- AvengerK
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:31am
  What you’re watching is called “death by a thousand leaks”. The CIA and the FBI are notorious for this. Obama threw their men under the bus in Benghazi then proceeded to blame the CIA for the lack of action and vague intelligence after wards….
  At this stage..I would not be surprised to see impeachment being spoken about by the end of 2013. And good luck to Obama in trying to use the media and the bully pullpit after four Americans are dead as a result of his and the state department’s ineptitude.
  
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- mrzmac
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 12:40pm
  @ Avengerk…sorry dear, the problem with your logic is it is based on America before she became a welfare whoree…this occurred 2 months before he was re-elected and no one questioned him about it, he gave a “press conference” and he was asked does he count sheep or does he have a czar to count for him (I only thought of that because my daughter use to have my mom count them for her…lol finally something made me smile) he is above the law, Holder is above the law and America will never survive this regime!
  
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- ConstitunalAmerican
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 1:18pm
  If anyone is waiting for impeachment of this president, you’ll never see it. He will finish his term (?) to wreck havoc within this country until he, and his fellow comrades completely disable the united States till its nothing more than a shriveled up prune. The biggest flaw would be lack of a defense department and resulting vulnerability to vicious attacks like Benghazi, except on a much larger scale and from within our own borders. The resulting defense department will only exist in this country against fellow Americans. Verbal attacks are the new norm to cease opposition.
  The Great Divide has begun. We hear them everyday lashing out, indoctrinating the people, news medias tongue wagging with No credibility. Divide and Conquer.
  There is NOT one person in office today that will stand up to him and complete the impeachment process. We’re fools to believe that would ever happen. He has no accountability for his actions or lack of, congress… don’t expect much from them after 4 years of nothing but little talk-no action.
  In 4 years under obama watch what has he accomplished to benefit this country?? Huge jobs losses, unsustainable living costs to middle America, foreclosures, an unhealthy care law that will crush the middle class and close business, the great divide amongst fellow Americans.
  Will America survive after 4 more years??
  
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- Popp40
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 1:19pm
  Have you all seen where over a dozen House Democratic women who are calling the Republicans racist and sexist becuase they are questioning S. Rice’s actions…..it has gotten to the point where you are not allowed to even question Obama or anyone who is black in this administration because if you do then you are racist and sexist.
  
  I bet going forward the Democratic Party will only put up someone who is a minority or a women candidate for President….after all….if you don’t vote for them then that means you are racist or sexiest because you are not allowed to question or disagree with them no matter what they believe. And we the MSM telling us how racists we are everyday for not supporting them blindly……
  
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- jblaze
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 1:35pm
  MR
  
  Sadly, you are correct!
  
  There is hope though. Hope that most Americas are not willing to look to or hear about at this time! America will eventually look to that hope; but even more sadly, only when everything they have ever known is destroyed and is lying at their feet. How did America get to the where she is today?
  
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- needmoinfo
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 4:16pm
  You need a majority of the House to charge him with impeachment. Can we get 2/3s of the Senate to convict? There is more than one way to skin a cat. So sick of this idiot making monkeys out of all of us. He probably has krrp on every major leader in the military and politics that can defeat him. All of which could not hold a candle to his anti-American actions. It is clear he is setting himself up to be an unchallenged uncontrollable dictator.
  
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- Oldphoto678
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 5:45pm
  I think you must have missed the part where Petraeus said he and the CIA approved Rice’s talking points at the time. Of course you did, because Fox hid that fact. The only cover-up is on the part of Fox news, and the only conspiracy is in your head.
  Nice try, but like all of the other big scandles you toothless hicks have tried to manufacture this too is a bust.
  
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- crazedbanshee
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 7:11pm
  @OldPhoto – I thought we were all fat cats bent on destroying the middle class and make them all servants to our corporations? So which is it? Toothless hicks or fat cats?
  
  This is the statement from Rep King:
  
  “General Petraeus’ testimony today was that from the start he told us that this was a terrorist attack, that terrorists were involved from the start,” King told reporters after the closed-door hearing before the House intelligence committee. “I told him in my question I had a very different recollection of that.”
  
  So Rep King is saying there is a contradiction from his original statement.
  
  Then he is saying that a CIA agent backed the Generals testimony.
  
  ‘King said a CIA analyst with Petraeus testified that the agency’s talking points for the White House immediately after the attack were specific about Al-Qaeda terrorist involvement but that the line was apparently removed from the final version of events.’
  
  “After it went through the process…that was taken out,” King said.
  
  This is saying that after it went through the process (white house talking points) it was removed. It was NOT removed by Fox News, but by the white house from the original testimony is what the General and CIA agent are testifying to.
  
  Rice on the 16th said it was a spontaneous reaction and the white house didn’t say it was terrorism until a week later. So either the General is lying or the white house is lying.
  
  So did we miss that line? No, but we und
  
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sparkyrules
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:14am
I’m sorry,its like that.
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leasecommander
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:12am
Sure, the administration changed it, the only question was whether General Petraeus would step and tell the truth, now the big question is who will get the blame and how many American people will NOT believe that this COVERUP was done for purely political reasons. This administration is a bunch of pure political hacks, their actions make me sick.

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sparkyrules
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:12am
Stay aware.Get Ready Bucko.

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RANGER1965
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:12am
No offense to the Blaze news staff, but the headline might be a little misleading.

It seems to me that the Petraeus testimony is more of a win for the Adminstration. He is even saying that Ambassador Rice was giving out the best available information at the time.

I know that many (myself included) want the General’s testimony to be damning, but it seems that it’s just the opposite.

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- Lawrence7
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:23am
  The whole think smacks of incompetence. Read my previous explanation, all of it. If you have an military or government understanding of how Psy-Ops works the answers are pretty obvious.
  
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- leasecommander
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:25am
  Well, I want the same thing you want, the testimony to be damning, I personally think it is, it is obvious that someone changed the general’s comments and beliefs on the situation, it follows, at least for me, that it was done to lessen the damage to the current administration. It does worry me that nothing will come of this and the American people that elected this man will never understand or desire the truth.
  
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- Platonician
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 12:04pm
  The problem is that the administration has still a lot of leverage on Petraeus. They can accuse him of passing classified information to Paula Broadwell, that’s the reason the FBI raided her home. Now they can put anything in the computer their seized. Petraeus knows this, this would imply not only the end of his career but prison time. This is Chicago style politics.
  
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- kvan
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 3:29pm
  I don’t know if you are reading this article or something else!
  
  “King said a CIA analyst with Petraeus testified that the agency’s talking points for the White House immediately after the attack were specific about Al-Qaeda terrorist involvement but that the line was apparently removed from the final version of events”.
  
  This is pretty clear that the Administration was told by the CIA that it was a Terrorist Attack. Looks like this fact was removed from the talking points that Rice received After the Admin got it!!!
  
  In what Universe is that not damaging to the Administration and hussein directly??
  
  This is so much worse than what Nixon did in Watergate, this is covering up purposfully letting those 4 men die in the attack. I believe it falls into the category of “High Crimes” mentioned as impeachable in our Constitution.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 4:11pm
  I think they’re still pretty damning. Maybe not to her, but to someone. SOMEONE changed the talking points in his report. Someone edited it. Maybe she’s innocent and she was just going off the intel she was given, or maybe she is complicit and is relying on “I was just following orders.” If that’s the report the CIA put out, that’s the report Obama received. Someone changed it to fit a narrative. This is going to get very interesting. Now are we seeing why this whole affair thing is a distraction? I bet someone was trying to hold it over his head to make him follow the narrative, but he exposed himself instead of kneeling to blackmail. Hold on, kids. It’s gonna get bumpy.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 6:34pm
  @00100111
  If that’s the report the CIA put out, that’s the report Obama received.
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  Hussein watched it all on live feed.
  
  Rice is a Hussein operative.
  
  Enough said.
  
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- scissorflash
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 8:26pm
  There is no scandal, McCain and King have already back down. Guess you’ll all have to jump back on the Birther horse lol.
  
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Joyzee
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:08am
Obama A Prince Among Muslims’…..A Punk Among Christians’…..A Pawn Among Globalist’……A King Among Kenyans’……..A Coward Among Israelis’……….A Treasonist Among Americans///***///….God bless America///***///www.impeachobamanow.com

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- ghostlyspirit
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:20am
  You nailed that right on the head !!
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 12:47pm
  For sure! They don’t call him Hussein just for grins.
  
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- Tachy320
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 5:45pm
  Exactly right. The ones who will suffer most right now are the Israelis. America wont even come to the aid of our own people so why should we come to the aid of Israel. Hamas sees all this. Iran, and Hezbollah too. Obama thinks gives give them Israel. We will be spared. Terrorists may give us a pass but God wont.The day we turn our back on Them is the day we start our decline if it hasn’t started already.
  
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TerryJ70
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:06am
Why aren’t these sessions held under oath? Am I the only one who is suspicious of this? What happens when they go completely through the chain and each person “testifies” that they do not know who changed the talking points? Where do we go from there?

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- Proud Stray Dog
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 5:31pm
  They are under oath. Just like a trial where the judge “closes the courtroom”.
  
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- Oldphoto678
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 5:53pm
  No your wrong!!! The general did not testify under oath.
  
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Lawrence7
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:06am
Let us engage in some critical thinking.

We must first remember the goal of Psi-Ops which is to make the unplausible seem plausible and this is accomplished my making the plausible seem unplausible.

What the CIA reported initially was a demonstration fueled by the Egyptian demonstration and whatever fueled that demonstration. Nothing in the CIA report mentions the silly video in question. This is what Petraeus reported to congress and the truth as far as he knew it.

Somewhere between the CIA and Rice the issue of the video was added and Rice reported that. Or more correctly, parroted it, but it is the truth as she knew it.

What we found out (which the CIA didn’t initially believe themselves) is that the attack was orchestrated by a powerful terrorist group for a very specific purpose. Question here is, why did the CIA not know this right from the start? Either they are dumb and misread the warnings, or they faked themselves out with their own Psi-Ops, assuming this kind of terrorist attack so implausible that they couldn’t believe it when they saw it.

Now… we have so much implausible arm-chair generalling going on that nobody can tell what is plausible or implausbile, and filling in the details with their imaginations.

Here is the most plausible story:

The CIA didn’t know or didn’t realize the attack was an orchestrated terrorist attack and that is why they didn’t ask for or send in backup.

The cover-up is the government, Administration, Se

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- Lawrence7
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:13am
  The cover-up is the government, Administration, Sec.Def., CIA, covering up the fact that they were totally fooled (and incompetent) in mistaking this coordinated attack as a mere political demonstration.
  
  What we don’t know is where Rice got the information that this was all caused by the silly video. So, lets look back at what I said about Psi-Ops.
  
  The most logically implausible story is the one Rice told about the video being the cause, but emotionally it is the story everyone wants to accept as plausible.
  
  What is most plausible is the CIA and government intel where simply caught by surprise and failed to properly react. Nobody wants to believe our intel community could be this incompetent so we are taking this simple explanation as implausible, when logically it is the only version of events that makes any logical sense.
  
  Furthermore, Petraeus is an honorable military officer, he would not resign his post over an intel kerfluffle. Nobody asked him to resign or challenged him to resign. His resignation is purely based on getting caught with his pants down, a direct violation of his own personal honor code.
  
  The truth here is so simple that absolutely nobody is going to accept it, and thus fuel the continual Psi-Ops cover-up of the incompetence involved.
  
  … and probably the only competent official in this whole debacle will be the one taking the blame for it, and the fall for it. Sorry Petraeus but you’re not the first person that Obama has thrown under t
  
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- Lawrence7
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:21am
  … and probably the only competent official in this whole debacle will be the one taking the blame for it, and the fall for it. Sorry Petraeus but you’re not the first person that Obama has thrown under the bus.
  
  With 20-20 hind-sight Petraeus can say he knew (more likely highly suspected on a personal level) the attack was a planned terrorist effort, but that personal belief on his part was not corroborated as official by his organization, nor by Sec.Def or Administration officials.
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:41am
  Lawrence7
  
  I agree with what you wrote with the exception that Petraus is an honorable soldier. He lied to Congress and let Duty, Honor, Country fall to the side. He did not rediscover Duty, Honor, Country today. He is a ticket puncher. BTW, Psychological Operations is abbreviated as PsyOps.
  
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- Lawrence7
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:51am
  There is currently no evidence that Petraeus lied. The fact Petraeus didn’t over-ride the official CIA assessment with his personal assumptions/oservations does not make him a lair. Don’t buy into all the Psi-Ops and arm-chair generally by biased media and biased pundits. 20-20 hindsight proving him wrong does not specifically prove him a liar.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 6:41pm
  @LAWRENCE
  There is currently no evidence that Petraeus lied. The fact Petraeus didn’t over-ride the official CIA assessment with his personal assumptions/oservations does not make him a lair.
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  What a bunch of hogwash. The critic went out to Petraeus’ at CIA HQ in real time. You are obfuscating. Petraeus is not a lair, but he is a liar.
  
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Triple7
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:06am
Nothing will come of this.
They could release a video of Obama and his minions sitting in the situation “choom” room with him saying something to the effect ” Ahh, sucks to be those guys huh, ahh well whatever, Im sleepy and going to bed. Come up with something before I get on the plane to in the morning. I got that useful idiot rally in Vegas”.
And the media as well as the drone supporters will be just fine with it. You know because there are more important stuff to talk about. Like pushing the fake story of global warming, war on women, the need to redistribute wealth. You know the Marxist agenda?

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- Cavallo
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:07am
  Yup, spot on.
  
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- ghostlyspirit
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:23am
  I agree if they were serious obama would be impeached already and hearings would be going on !!! http://WWW.GODANDSPIRIT.COM
  
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- Lawrence7
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:53am
  If the American people where serious, we wouldn’t have re-elected him. :( .
  
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- Jimw
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 12:47pm
  So Very TRUE and So Very Sad!!!
  The Republic can survive a barack obama, who is, after all, merely a fool.
  It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president.”
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 12:58pm
  Hussein was re-elected because around 50% of the American populous are idiots and care only about themselves… not something bigger like the well being of our nation, it’s founding’s, and future generations. So… it appears that about half of Americans are really “Americino’s”. “Americans In Name Only” and the illegal immigrants are even that.
  
  America is likely “toast” as a cohesive unit, BUT… Some of us will never change regardless of the outcome.
  
  FORWARD, I guess. See ya there!
  
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- Thinkingman777
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:40pm
  Triplez: Your thoughts are not cynicism, they are right on the money. The fix is in, me thinks.
  
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RaydocX
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:56am
Monice troll, when did you turn off your logic center?
Petraeus recollection is not the impression he left the Congress with on September 14. IE what he said was spun differently than he remembers or differently than he wishes it had been presented.

NEVERTHELESS, his CIA analyst specified that the report GOING TO THE WHITE HOUSE included the information about Al Queda. And that it was gone from the final report.

so someone at the White House edited out the information in their decision to go forward pushing the video theory. That person or persons have yet to step forward or be identified.

Now, sadly even if the President himself made that decision, someone will be the appointed fall guy, but if you surmise from just the noted recollections of the hearing that there is no conspiracy here, you are in danger of overdosing on the kool aid.

Remember Benghazi!

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- Trance
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:13am
  “so someone at the White House edited out the information in their decision to go forward pushing the video theory. That person or persons have yet to step forward or be identified.”
  
  If there was a person at the white house who removed the information without the president’s knowledge, then presented that to the president as truth, that would be TREASON. There would be no way to hide from something like this.
  
  There is no doubt that the president is the driver behind the lies.
  
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- Oldphoto678
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 6:51pm
  Morons. It has clearly been reported that General petraeus and the CIA approved the talking points put forth by Rice..
  
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encinom
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:42am
My God, the inmates run this asylum. Talk about inventing a story. There is no cover up. Just conspiracy theorists and nut jobs looking for a story.

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- toiletclogga
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:48am
  Lies are meant to cover up Mr. **** for brains!
  
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- dsd13130
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:49am
  Ignorance is Bliss, isn’t it Encinom?
  
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- expatinontariocanada
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:53am
  Dude, you are missing some genes, the ones for rational thought and critical thinking. You are blinded by pure partisan politics. What are you missing with “..immediately after the attack were specific about Al-Qaeda terrorist involvement but that the line was apparently removed from the final version of events.” There’s the cover up. Now a critical thinker would ask, by whom and for what reason? If your house was on fire you would argue there’s no smoke.
  
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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:06am
  Freak… You are being led too slaughter encimommie.. The useless are always the first to go when constructing a collective.
  
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- Triple7
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:08am
  Marxist troll.
  
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- contkmi
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:14am
  It’s sad that you are so blinded. Would you have said the same if this had happened under GWB? I think not. When your ambassador is killed, it’s a big deal. If you lie to the American people about protecting its own citizens and representatives, it’s a big deal.
  
  Your position is shameful.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:16am
  Maybe Encinom is right. It is either a cover up or the administration are completely and utterly incompetent to deal with situations like Libya. We are already convinced that an inbred blind simian would be better at running foreign affairs so maybe we are giving bobo and his wonder buddy morons too much credit? I bet Monty Python’s Upper Class Twit of the Year competitors can do a more efficient job of protecting American interests overseas.
  
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- AwakenedGiant
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:16am
  Having been involved with a few automobile forums its best to not feel the trolls, this fool is looking to get a rise out of someone. I have seen constant agitated replies to this clown and he is probably sitting in his basement in his underwear laughing his **** off. Try to have some restraint and just let him talk to himself and totally ignore his ignorant statements. I have often told my children, one out of every two people you meet are an *****, the last election PROVED my statement.
  
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- JeffersonsPen
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:17am
  No cover up? Lets see 4 Americans dead! The President “AUTHORIZED LIEING” for over two weeks under the idea they still didn’t know anything. He lied to help his re-election campain and to take the American public off target. What was Amb. Stevens doing there under staffed and under protected? We all know it was to clean up the weapons given to our “Enemies”. Encinom you LIE TOO!
  
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- trg13
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:19am
  FOUR Americans were left to struggle for their life, and finally, hours later were killed…..Would you feel the same way if one of those four left behind was a close relative of yours?
  
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- AwakenedGiant
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:33am
  The question I have however is, why doesn’t the admin bar this member? What are we trying to be balanced? He offers nothing, ban him
  
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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:50am
  ENCINOM the professional liar speaks again.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 12:28pm
  The rest of the story from the AP:
  
  Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Petraeus disputed Republican suggestions that the White House misled the public on what led to the violence in the midst of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign.
  
  “There was an interagency process to draft it, not a political process,” Schiff said after the hearing. “They came up with the best assessment without compromising classified information or source or methods. So changes were made to protect classified information.
  
  “The general was adamant there was no politicization of the process, no White House interference or political agenda,” Schiff said. “He completely debunked that idea.”
  
  Schiff said Petraeus said Rice’s comments in the television interviews “reflected the best intelligence at the time that could be released publicly.”
  
  King said Petraeus had briefed the House committee on Sept. 14 and he does not recall Petraeus being so positive at that time that it was a terrorist attack. “He thought all along that he made it clear there was terrorist involvement,” King said. “That was not my recollection.”
  
  Beck needs his rabid friends angry, he knows the only way he can keep them is to keep them blinded from the truth with his lies and conspiracy theories.
  
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- Capt_Gregg
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 12:43pm
  @ENCINOM
  Care to logically elaborate, or are you just stuck on name-calling and parroting Obama talking points? You come across as someone with a 3rd grade public school “education.”
  
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- truthsurfer
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 12:56pm
  We see by your moronic post how the kenyan got elected and re elected. Do you need to have your lips surgically removed from obama’s ass or will they fall off on their own.
  
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- IMCHRISTIAN
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 1:03pm
  If they came up with the best assessment then that is like spreading gossip. That is not very White House like. God will be the final judge of all even you and me.
  
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- DIR
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:48pm
  @TRUTHSURFER
  
  You may be on to something profound with your comments about E’s lips wrapped around Barry’s A.H.. See, ‘E’ suffers from the heart break of bad breath and terminal stupidity. For all this time I thought his breath stunk because he’s full of crap. Truthsurfer, your comment suggests another more plausable reason not to mention the fact that E seems high on something. He’s high on Barry’s methane which is also the cause of his putrid breath. Everyone here should chip in and get E a huge pack of certs w industrial strength retsyn (an ingredient that helps combat bad breath). Unfortunately the certs won’t stop stupid, but they’ll help clear the air.
  
  Truthsurfer, your comments were very funny and right on.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 7:27pm
  ENCIN: The Watergate hearings were held on public television. So should these. The American people have a right to know the truth. Since this involves the Obama Administration, that will be difficult enough in public, let alone private sessions.
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:35am
Next- Clinton. jarret, biden… Subpoenas for everyone. Impeding an investigation is illegal. Jail time, and more jail time. Let the CYA fest begin..
Bring in the IRS and see who has been threatened with destruction for not playing ‘president’ with obama. This is standard M/O/ for obama’s Chicago on the Potomac. This runs deep and wide.

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notworkingafter2009
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:29am
Nothing to see here, move along!

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Lady_of_the_Lake
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:29am
This whole Admin needs to find Religion……..John Browning style

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Individualism
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:21am
Murder is Murder, stop using this fake word called terrorism.

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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:07am
  An excellent observation. It was inexcusable not to have heeded plain prior warnings that our position in Benghazi were threatened. After the fact, did it really matter all that much whether the attack was spontaneous, well-planned or some combination of the two? The word “terror” was in fact used, by the president and others, within a couple of days, while at the same time there was continued mention of the infamous video. This is a childish argument over nomenclature.
  
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truthsurfer
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:19am
As originally believed the coward in chief from kenya refused to save American lives cause he is a muslim terrorist that fooled and bribed enough idiots in this country to get elected.

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Steve28
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:18am
So now who wrote the Political Talking Points and lied to the American people?

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HKS
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:15am
They must have a gun to his kids head or something, more lies.

“Remember Benghazi”

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- IMCHRISTIAN
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:20am
  Remember Benghazi
  Remember Fast and Furious
  Remember Fort Hood
  
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doomytram
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:14am
Then why did Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton, and Obozo blame it on the video for two weeks? Why did they lie ? and Why did they not want to tell the Citizens the truth? Why hasn’t the Fort Hood Terrorist been brought to justice after 3 years? Under Obozo. Why was the film maker imprisoned, tried, and convicted, the day after Obozo stole the country? Why Obozo?

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- DennisHabern1
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 3:39pm
  I am getting tired of indivduals speculating about Benghazi when everyone is quite aware that the
  
  Kenyan Moron, the illegimate Muslim President of the United States is “GUILTY OF EVERYTING”
  
  linked to the deaths of 4 Americans. Why is everyone attempting to protect this Moronic Kenyan.
  
  Both he and George Soros care nothing about the United States; both are not natural born citizens
  
  of the United States, and everyone is quite aware of the Moron’s experiences during the later 1970;
  
  his close associations with George Soros (Socialist and worse); William Ayers (Communist author
  
  whom wrote both of the Moron’s books and is quite well known as the leader of the “WEATHER
  
  UNDERGROUND GROUP,” whose mission was to bomb government buildings; Frank Marshal
  
  Davis (the Moron’s card-carrying Communist mentor); Frances Fox Piven and her husband,
  
  Richard Cloward, “ANARCHISTS”; and Tony Rezko (a criminal whom is currently serving time in
  
  prison). As I have mentioned in the past and have warned my e-mail list, anyone or anything
  
  connected to George Soros and the Moron, can rest-assure that the outcome will be negative, but
  
  not for Soros. Money talks. For the past few years, the United States was warned that the fall of
  
  the U.S. would come from within, not from without, and now you know the rest of the story.
  
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chips1
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:13am
Once the testimony gets filtred thru Obama’s spin cycle, the truth will not be recognized anymore. It’s what he does and he has had years of practice. Practice makes perfect. Only problem is that I don’t buy his crap sandwich.

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hauschild
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:11am
Yet, Petraeus had great difficulty in letting the American people know immediately following the incident? What very little, little man! He had to wait until he was deep-sixed to finally come clean? What an absolute joke. This dude should have his lifetime of entitlements taken away.

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- truthsurfer
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:21am
  The buck stops with the coward in chief from kenya. You know the one that to this day is still lying about it and attempting to cover it which he cannot even do right What a kenyan loser POS
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:09am
Terrorism from the start? No **** Sherlock we don’t need the former head of the CIA telling us it was that two months later we all knew it when it happened. The only people who needed to hear this today are the simpleton OBAMAZOMBIES who voted for the Marxist POS,they didn’t know or care what happened in Libya. All they care about is what the government ie taxpayers can give them to keep their worthless parasitical lives moving FORWARD.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:14am
  Yeah, but Dem-wit Congressman Ruppersberger has already started twisting his side of the story. He’s essentially saying that the first attack on the consulate was not organized while making it sound like a demonstration. But, later the attack on the CIA compound was organized and did seem like it was by trained terrorists.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:35am
  He’s playing word games because it was an act of war and nothings been done about it because of what the regime was up to,running guns to our enemies.
  
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- toiletclogga
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:47am
  Fast and Furious! The Libyan edition!
  
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toomuchgovt
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:08am
So Petraeus was not a courageous man, Does he not think we have video know? So unlike McCain who sat in a prison cell in a Foreign land, Petraeus has no honor, no courage, no duty. Or did they sit in that closed door room and Petraeus tell all those government employees all the dirt they have on all of them – that they will all go to jail. They all saved their political butts. Again Petraeus LIED.

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- hauschild
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:14am
  And, I don’t understand why the immediate thoughts on Petraeus are that he was “thrown under the bus”. He’s a P.O.S. progressive that has no moral compass and ended up being expendable. That entire regime should do hard time.
  
  I’ll say it again: Any kid that goes into the military at this time (having other options notwithstanding) is naive at best, an idiot otherwise.
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:21am
  I had hoped that he would have rediscovered Duty, Honor, Country. Sadly, he is just a ticket puncher who got to be a 4 star.
  
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contkmi
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:06am
So, we’re given more evidence of a coverup by the administration of a scenario where four Americans, including the American ambassador, were killed.

Why is this not impeachable?

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- chips1
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:18am
  Because Obama isn’t a black American. He is an african-american BIG difference!!!!
  
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- Vickie Dhaene
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:24am
  It is impeachable and WE THE PEOPLE will keep demanding this administration be held accountable. Reminder that this was Obama’s war. He usurped Congress to go in.
  Remember: BENGHAZI, FAST AND FURIOUS, DREAM ACT, VOTER INTIMIDATION, OBAMACARE.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 11:24am
  Because there is no point to impeaching him. It’s politically impossible to remove Obama from office. There is almost nothing he can do that would cause him to be convicted in the Senate, so the House won’t bother.
  
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- crofootski
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 6:22pm
  They will have to have rock solid evidence to get him impeached in the House, and even that evidence will not get a conviction in the Dem-controlled Senate.
  
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