It’s
all about Benghazi! What was Pretreeus
gonna say under oath? Everything else is
the corrupt American media’s actively drawing attention away from the answer to
that question.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I think the really shocking news
today was that General Petraeus thought and hoped he could keep his job. He
thought that it might and it would be kept secret, and that he could stay in his
position. I think what that tells us is really important. It meant that he
understood that the FBI obviously knew what was going on. He was hoping that
those administration officials would not disclose what had happened, and
therefore hoping that he would keep his job. And that meant that he understood
that his job, his reputation, his legacy, his whole celebrated life was in the
hands of the administration, and he expected they would protect him by keeping
it quiet.
And that brings us to the ultimate issue, and that is his
testimony on September 13. That’s the thing that connects the two scandals, and
that’s the only thing that makes the sex scandal relevant. Otherwise it would
be an exercise in sensationalism and voyeurism and nothing else. The reason it’s
important is here’s a man who knows the administration holds his fate in its
hands, and he gives testimony completely at variance with what the Secretary of
Defense had said the day before, at variance with what he’d heard from his
station chief in Tripoli, and with everything that we had heard. Was he
influenced by the fact that he knew his fate was held by people within the
administration at that time?
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