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In reply to the discussion: This is Seven Days In May, not "creative speculation"... [View all]triplepoint
(431 posts)56. Our Shadow Government
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So, let General Petraeus testify at the Benghazi Congressional Hearings. Televise it on C-Span. Show us that our government has got nothing to hide....most of us at least...except maybe the CIA (aka the "Committee to Intervene Anywhere"
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The CIA is denying an assertion made by David Petraeus' biographer and girlfriend that the agency held militants in Libya before the Sept. 11, 2012 attack. During a talk last month at the University of Denver, author Paula Broadwell said the CIA had detained people at a secret facility in Benghazi, and that the attack on the U.S. Consulate there was an effort to free those prisoners. President Barack Obama issued an executive order in January 2009 stripping the CIA of its authority to take prisoners. The move means the CIA can no longer operate secret jails across the globe as it had done under the administration of President George W. Bush.
"The CIA has not had detention authority since January 2009... Any suggestion that the Agency is still in the detention business is uninformed and baseless," CIA spokesman Preston Golson told CBS News.
(my words: Mr. Preston, would you be willing to say that while hooked up to a Polygraph or two?)
Reference Link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57548494/cia-denies-it-detained-militants-in-benghazi
Is Petraeus ever going to be able to tell his side of the story (under oath), or will he go tits up like CIA Director Casey did? It's deja vu all over again.
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That's funny because I had been thinking of Gen. James Matoon Scott as I read this
navarth
Nov 2012
#1
It really does, except that the guy's name was Smedley. That's a tough one to get past.
Squinch
Nov 2012
#139
if so, it is the most dunderheaded and incompetent military/CIA operation ever
librechik
Nov 2012
#9
But Romney's "satan grin" press conference suggests that it was something that was
Squinch
Nov 2012
#67
Yes, and I think it probably did, but I also think that Petraeus has enough supporters that
Squinch
Nov 2012
#73
After 37 "faithful" years a guy has an affair? That's the first aspect that smells funny to me.
mulsh
Nov 2012
#112
2 questions. 1st: Why would their "October surprise" come in early September? And 2nd...
Bucky
Nov 2012
#105
There is a photo floating around - of Romney - right after his Benghazi press conference
Lucinda
Nov 2012
#24
Part of the answer is that the anonymity protects those who foolishly overly-alert so that they
AnotherMcIntosh
Nov 2012
#77
Somehow I don't think that the MIRT knowledge with respect to identities is shared with others.
AnotherMcIntosh
Nov 2012
#87
I just looked in the Forum and Group Hosts folder and there was a SOP alert as well
Whisp
Nov 2012
#89
I'm skeptical, but still realize that every player in this is a dedicated right-winger.
Zen Democrat
Nov 2012
#41
PCIntern, I've tuned out because the talking heads play this as just a sex scandal...
Hekate
Nov 2012
#74
This country lost "one of its most brilliant generals"? Brilliant? In what way exactly?
AnotherMcIntosh
Nov 2012
#78
So the unanimous consensus of unnamed and unidentifiable persons establishes him as brilliant?
AnotherMcIntosh
Nov 2012
#91
You're right, and you wanna know why...Repukes are keeping quiet about this...
joeybee12
Nov 2012
#81
I think you are probably right. I find the intransigence of Democratic Party's leadership
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#92
Very few people took note of the fact that two-star Army general Al Haig was appointed as....
OldDem2012
Nov 2012
#110
Press TV: 5 recent surprise resignations by generals & admirals mean Obama just shut down a Coup...
MinM
Nov 2012
#130
"one is going to have to prove ot me that this, or some version of this did not occur." "
former9thward
Nov 2012
#131