Let’s Ask The Right Questions About Petraeus Resigning

Posted by in Blog, Featured, News, Politics on November 10, 2012 10:05 am / 2 comments

Yesterday I wrote that I wasn’t buying that the resignation of David Petraeus was some grand scheme by the Obama Administration to silence the former CIA Director or blame him for the events in Benghazi. While I still believe that to be the case, there is another scenario that we should be looking at.

The question that needs to be asked now is when did President Obama know about the affair Petraeus was having? I find it hard to believe that the CIA Director was under investigation by the FBI and the White House was just informed on Wednesday.

Further, if they knew about this affair prior to Wednesday, was a seriously compromised person allowed to stay on in that capacity until after the election to avoid the embarrassment of a scandal? Or to avoid the logical question of whether or not Petraeus’ affair was affecting his performance and may have caused him to miss warning signs in Libya?

The idea that his resignation was somehow retribution or an attempt to scapegoat him for Libya is a non-starter for me. However, there are some really valid questions that need to be addressed here. These questions need to be answered or this will likely hang around the Obama Administration’s neck for quite some time.

 
 

2 Comments

  1. BARBARA DORSEY says:
    November 10, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    I thought it was odd that Petraeus was appointed to CIA Director given the way the was disrespected in Senate Hearings by Senator Obama and others. Senator Clinton pretty much called him a liar. MoveOn.org ran that despicable Betray Us ad. Time marches on and the Surge was effective in beginning to end the Iraq war. Remarkably Petraeus is the Dems darling and is appointed CIA Director? Benghazi is blamed as an intelligence failure after the video story doesn’t sell to the American people. Throw Bush’s boy Petreaus under the bus, now that the election is over. Isn’t it obvious?

  2. Jaime Guttierez says:
    November 12, 2012 at 10:20 am

    Seems to me ole Colin Powell came from Bush, too, and we saw how reliable he was or is. Look, just because they are generals or just because somebody served in the military doesn’t mean they are conservatives. You have to be a politician to make rank in the peacetime military… to get to general, oh yes you are a politician. After that crap the left pulled on petraeus, I said at the time he should resign and tell them all to go to hell, but you see, he played the game for years afterwards. I lost a ton of respect for him then. Hey, he’ll get some kind of reward from the dems, just wait and see. They are all in it for themselves. A true role model for the rest of us.

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