NBC: David Petraeus resigns from CIA

[dsummoner]

Diane Feinstein from your neck of the woods, as a Democrat, is going after this stronger than some Republicans!

Being scorned by means of being left out of the loop has its repercussions.

[Byng]

Being scorned by means of being left out of the loop has its repercussions.

Hopefully for the President, he was left out of the loop too or he could be on very shaky ground! It should be an interesting Press Conference today.

[dsummoner]

Hopefully for the President, he was left out of the loop too or he could be on very shaky ground! It should be an interesting Press Conference today.

"Out of the loop" can be interpreted in one of many ways.

[Byng]

"Out of the loop" can be interpreted in one of many ways.

I have got to run and take care of some business in the hope of getting back in time to listen to the Presidents Press conference at 1:30. Obama is going to want to talk about the Fiscal Cliff and how he will veto any proposal that does not include taxing the rich. But that will not be what the Press Corp. will want to question him on!

[sigmalady]

Most reasoned and unbiased posters without a political agenda will understand that President Obama as CIC had that responsibility the second this attack took place. The only thing still under investigation is why and how this attack took place and why the American Consulate in Benghazi was not being run by the State Department as it would have been if it had been functioning as an American Consulate and was instead being run by the CIA. Plus of course, what was our Ambassador to Libya doing mixed up with CIA Covert Operatives in Benghazi in the first place?

I agree with you and I don't think we will get the answers anytime soon.

[Byng]

I agree with you and I don't think we will get the answers anytime soon.

But I am pretty convinced that there will not be a cover-up as many are predicting. 1. because there are just too many people involved to successfully contain it. And 2. if there is any blame to be placed on the Administration in general and the President in particular, with only just starting a second term he is positioned well to absorb it and move on.

[Hexexis]

...Obama is going to want to talk about the Fiscal Cliff ...

Fortunately, alert speechwriters will have the Pres. talking about the new post-doctoral annex to the U.S. Army service academy @West Point, Petraeus Point, & its first grad., the aptly named Dr. Paula Broadwell, PhD, School of Whisky Tango Foxtrot.

[CajunRaven]

No it is not especially in the case of Petraeus and Allen but is centered on the same vixen in Tampa that had a penchant for Senior officers and those in a position of power. What concerns me is just because a pretty piece of 'strange' got such powerful men to be besotted by her and dragged them around at will by the lower band suggests to me that if she had been an agent of a foreign government (and what's to say she wasn't) how more compromised would the National Security of the United States be looking right now?

That question started popping up today. Who knows right now.

[Byng]

That question started popping up today. Who knows right now.

One would have hoped, that when someone like the Director of the CIA decides to mess around with 'strange' he would have at the very least, as the top spy in the country have at the very minimum have done the due diligence to have the 'strange' thoroughly checked out first before entering into any such questionable relationship, or any relationship at all.

Having said that, having two Generals, closely associated with each-other and walking in each-others footsteps who were acting like a couple of teenagers on Facebook sending thousands of, at best flirtatious emails, to the same woman, it makes me be extremely concerned that they wouldn't have conducted that due diligence.

What makes me more concerned is that after the FBI announced to the American people that the case was closed and there was no Security breach whatsoever, they suddenly turn up at the Director of the CIA's Mistresses home to remove tens of boxes of records and files from her possession?

What concerns me even more, is that, as I have detailed on another thread that the documents removed were the personal archives of General Petraeus's 37 year military career for a second book he/she was writing. I think it would be very naive to think there was no classified information in those files.

This investigation is going to get very messy but mainly to do with the Surprising at best, juvenile salacious behavior behavior of Petraeus and Allen!.

[dsummoner]

And even more 'bad behavior.'

The U.S. Air Force announced Wednesday that it is changing how it selects officers and instructors who train new recruits after a sex scandal at its training headquarters in which dozens of female recruits said they were improperly approached, sexually harassed or raped by male instructors.

he investigation found that 23 instructors allegedly engaged in inappropriate or coercive sexual relationships with 48 recruits at Lackland Air Force base near San Antonio. Five people have been convicted in court martials on charges ranging from adultery to rape. Another person received administrative punishment, and additional instructors still could face criminal charges.