Bombshell: Did the White House hold the Patraeus affair over the CIA director's head to force him to spout the "company line" on Benghazi? Syndicated Columnist Charles Krauthammer thinks so. Read more:
White House Pressured Patraeus Over Affair
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| Former CIA Director David Patraeus |
So.....within days of the election scandal has once again hit the White House. Good way to start a second term. The president and his minions stonewalled and LIED on the Benghazi, Libya situation, not wanting the truth to come out (blaming a VIDEO) before the election as it would have brought the president down.
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| Paula Broadwell / Jill Kelley |
Now it has escalated, adding SEX to the mix, with the knowledge that David Patraeus, ousted CIA Director, had an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell. This is bad. A major security breach. The nation's top spy is compromised by his own stupidity, setting himself up for blackmail and who knows what else. There is speculation that Ms. Broadwell has/had access to top secret information.
These are the things a James Bond movie is made of. Pretty
woman worms her way into a top government official's intimate circle. official secrets are told and the pretty woman turns out to be a foreign double agent. Whoops! Not as far fetched as one might think in today's world. And now, there's another female in the mix. Tampa socialite Jill Kelley, supposed friend to the Patraeus family with some overly friendly ties to General John Allen, U.S. Commander in Afghanistan. The plot thickens.
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| Gen. John Allen |
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| Attorney Gen.Eric Holder |
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| FBI Dir. Robert Mueller |
The president has not been forth coming, sending his surrogates out to spin the story. Press secretary, Jay Carney, chief spinster, spun another one this week when he insisted that the administration knew nothing of the Patraeus/Broadwell dalliance until the day of the election. Problem: Eric Holder, the embattled attorney general and Robert Mueller, FBI director, reportedly knew of the affair for months. Through Carney's statement are we asked to believe that neither of these two top officials DID NOT inform the president, knowing the possible consequences to the nation's security?? If they didn't, they are incredibly incompetent and were derelict in their duty.. If they did, and the president has known it and did nothing, he is guilty of a cover-up and violating his oath of office to keep the country safe. He already is guilty of covering up the events surrounding Benghazi. And now this.
Lesser cover-ups have brought down presidencies. For those old enough to remember, the Watergate scandal of the early 70's was the result of a break-in of the Democratic National Committee national headquarters located in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. No one died and national security was not comprised. Yet, it sent President Richard Nixon packing.
President Obama's scandals are far more serious. Senate and House oversight committees are set to hold hearings. Democrats would do well not to stonewall, obstruct or defend the administration due to the seriousness of the issues. I fear the partisan divide.
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