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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]yardwork
(69,771 posts)31. Maybe revenge from a woman scorned?
This afternoon's news reports are saying that Petraeus knew about her emailing Kelly last summer, and told her to stop the harassment. At about the same time their relationship ended. So by late October, if any of this is true, she had been rejected by Petraeus and could have been out for revenge. Also, she seems to have been or become close to Rove and others close to the Romney election effort. For either of those reasons, she could have had a motive for making Petraeus look bad in the wake of the murders in Benghazi.
Whether she was telling the truth or not is also unknown. She could have just made it up to make Petraeus look bad.
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No--apparently she had no inside information. She was simply touting info she got from a fake story
tblue37
Nov 2012
#39
Well, the original story was NOT that the consulate or annex was being used as a prison.
tblue37
Nov 2012
#46
She said it because its true? If so, it means a US consulate is a secret detention facility
riderinthestorm
Nov 2012
#8