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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 9, 2012
Statement by President Obama on the Resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus
David Petraeus has provided extraordinary service to the United States for decades. By any measure, he was one of the outstanding General officers of his generation, helping our military adapt to new challenges, and leading our men and women in uniform through a remarkable period of service in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he helped our nation put those wars on a path to a responsible end. As Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, he has continued to serve with characteristic intellectual rigor, dedication, and patriotism. By any measure, through his lifetime of service David Petraeus has made our country safer and stronger.
Today, I accepted his resignation as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. I am completely confident that the CIA will continue to thrive and carry out its essential mission, and I have the utmost confidence in Acting Director Michael Morell and the men and women of the CIA who work every day to keep our nation safe. Going forward, my thoughts and prayers are with Dave and Holly Petraeus, who has done so much to help military families through her own work. I wish them the very best at this difficult time.
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Comments
You are one of the most well informed on the Generals, tho I ack that Petraeus had been moved to the CIA and not your primary venue. I came looking for your "take" on this, as I agree that something here seems fishy, esp. in light of other "reassignments" recently.
I hope you will (and can - multiple reasons why you might not) weigh in on this. Thanks.
Max
On another level, who cares?
Bubba Clinton still wins the hummer competition for talking to world leaders while Monica was on her knees. Which is more pervy? A blowjob in the Director's suite or cigar play in the Oval Office? I got to go with the cigar, on this one. And Bubba shook his finger at the American public, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky." That was awesome.
Since we are on the subject, what did the CIA turn up when it investigated J Edgar Hoover at the behest of JFK? We know. We all know. But we do not really care anymore, if we ever did. But I think that there is a cautionary tale behind the example of the most powerful man in America, with files and dirt on everybody, who is a secret cross-dresser and who barely bothers to disguise his relationship with Clyde Tolson. Tolson was Associate Director of the FBI from 1930 until 1972. How fabulous is that?
We barely apprehend how much strange that JFK got while he was in the White House. His wife vacationed on Aristotle Onassis's personal yacht while she was still the First Lady. Did Hoover whack the Kennedy brothers? It is as valid a hypothesis as any other that I have heard. Bobby became Hoover's boss as Attorney General. Talk about uncomfortable bedfellows.
So General Petraeus, for whatever reason, fell prey to a predatory girl who can now mount his head on her sexual mantelpiece. She should be very proud. I guess that she just could not control herself in the presence of power. "Weak-kneed" might be one way to put it.
And the General: *Shrug.* All too human.
As are we all.
It is not credible to believe that the POTUS was unaware one of his top cabinet members, none other than the CIA Director, was under investigation by the FBI/Justice Dept. before the House Speaker knew, and certainly not until the day of or after the election.
They are lying.
How long has the White House known about this and why now, one week before his Benghazi testimony?
They say there are no coincindences in the intelligence business.
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