CIA Director David Petraeus Resigns, Citing Affair 401
Penurious Penguin writes "After serving as Director of the CIA since September 2011, David Petraeus resigned from his position today, November 9. The retired four-star Army general has cited an extramarital affair as reason for the resignation. Michael Morell will now serve as Acting Director of the CIA."
Re:Job Performance (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:5 days prior to hearing. (Score:5, Interesting)
If this had been under Bush the mainstream media would be on his ass 24x7.
Oh, please. The mainstream media never got on Bush's ass 24x7 about *anything*. Ignore intelligence reports warning of an immanent attack? No problem. Let OBL get away? No problem. Lie us into a war? No problem. Authorize torture? No problem.
Re:5 days prior to hearing. (Score:4, Interesting)
Doesn't matter, they should subpoena his ass. This doesn't make the information in your head go away, or any less valid. Over all, it seems like the underside of the Benghazi bus is getting pretty crowded with all the people being thrown under it.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has already removed him from the schedule. This is how you cover up that the US State Department operation in Benghazi was a cover for a CIA operation (they were watching Libyans smuggle Gadaffi's weaponry to the Syrian rebels).
You don't talk about inconvenient things [youtube.com] during a Congressional hearing.
Re:Job Performance (Score:5, Interesting)
From what I heard on the NBC News (podcast), he offered to resign to Obama, who took a day to accept the resignation. Doesn't sound like a firing to me.
Dear Black Parrot: Obfuscant Just Pwned You (Score:3, Interesting)
Lesson: Facts do not cease to be facts just because they were reported on Fox News.
Different members of the Obama Administration have said different things about Benghazi at different times.
American forces in a position to help were evidently told repeatedly to stand down [foxnews.com].
Charles Woods, the father of the slain Tyrone Woods, thinks Obama is lying [weeklystandard.com]. And the mother of slain State Department employee Sean Patrick Smith [utsandiego.com] just came out and said "I believe that Obama murdered my son” though his negligence. Compare the amount of press given to them compared to Cindy Sheehan.
Now two chain-of-command figures central to the Benghazi controversy, CIA Director David Petraeus and General Carter Ham [washingtontimes.com], commander of AFRICOM, have resigned, while a third, Rear Adm. Charles M. Gaouette [go.com], has been reassigned.
None of this necessarily means that Obama issued the stand-down order, or validates the speculation in some quarters that Ambassador Stevens may have been involved in arms transfers. But how blind do you have to be to think that the fact that no additional forces were sent to protect Americans during a seven hour battle with jihadests is unworthy of being investigated?