There are plenty of speculative theories about why Obama would delay firing Petraeus until after the election

But he wouldn’t need such a comoplicated excuse. Only people without the actual power to fire him would need such an excuse.

and plenty of theories about why it was to his advantage to use the threat of exposure or the actual exposure to discredit Petraeus’ account of Benghazi.

This assumes of course he supports what he knows is a lie. Let’s say so, if he thought Petraeus was blackmailable, he’d keep him on. Otherwise he has no hold on him.

It’s people who didn’t want him to testify at all, who wanted him gone.

Your offhand rejection of any such with the naive acceptance of the idea that Obama knew nothing of the investigation until after the election strains all credibility.

that’s waht makes sense to me. I assume that Obama does not deliberatly want moles. If he did, why would he not have arranged to fail to get bin Laden?

Just bizarre. Your motivations for these weird comments escape me.

A compromised CIA chief is something like a bit of a crisis.

“Thursday morning, November 8. 2012, when it was sprung on it.”

I believe that about as much as I believe in the tooth fairy.

Your offhand rejection of any such with the naive acceptance of the idea that Obama knew nothing of the investigation until after the election strains all credibility.

Just bizarre. Your motivations for these weird comments escape me.

Remind me: you favored the Clinton impeachment, yes? Not because of the obstruction of justice or perjury, but because his affair meant he was not trustworthy and subjected him to blackmail?

That was your view, right?

I would really like someone to explain that to me.

Although, when I was in Louisiana, I met folks who would “adopt” feral hogs by spraypainting bright red PET on both sides of them.

Serious?

The last time I was in Louisiana I came away convinced there was no such thing as Sasquatch because if there was they’d have a cajun recipe for one.

Now you’re telling me the folks down there are tagging the hogs so the hunters don’t get them (I wasn’t after the hides, just the bacon).

I’m getting seriously bummed.

Thursday morning, November 8. 2012, when it was sprung on it.

Obama could not have engineered this whole thing.

In the first place, he is not that Machiavellian, I don;t think.

In the second place, he doesn’t need to. A president has a right to fire the CIA Director any time (Gerald Ford did) and right now woud be a perfectly plauasible timeto do so without offering any explanation. He could also offer a ton of simpler explanations and doesn’t need to d all this. Unlike President Clinton with the FBI Director, he doesn’t legally need to have “cause” to fire him.

Somebody at lower rank, or a cabal, would have a need to cook this whole thing up.

Barack Obama is the only person in the U,S, government who had no motive to create this scandal.

There are a lot of

I found pictures of her is one of her kids school-project photobooks. It features a shot of General Petraeus with Kelley’s kids.