you mean MORE truthful answers.

I read that he admitted to the affair so that he could resign and be a civilian and able to testify truthfully about Benghazi.......anyone else heard this??

Truthful answers from our Government? That'll be a first. There is no reason Petraeus should not testify. It happened on his watch. Just more stalling from our "transparent" administration.

Quick! Someone contact the folks at Bull@!$%# Mountain and let them know Patreus will be testifying on the Benghazi incident on Thursday. The conspiracy theories about the news of Patreus coming out now to prevent him from testifying is completely overwhelming them and have them under extreme distress. That is after they dropped the conspiracy that it was not announced before the election to prevent the president from being re-elected.

Fedup-378382

Quick! Someone contact the folks at Bull@!$%# Mountain and let them know Patreus will be testifying on the Benghazi incident on Thursday. The conspiracy theories about the news of Patreus coming out now to prevent him from testifying is completely overwhelming them and have them under extreme distress.

The smartest thing Petreus did in this dog and pony show was resign before he was called to testify. There is no scarier person in the world than someone on the witness stand who has nothing to lose.

That is after they dropped the conspiracy that it was not announced before the election to prevent the president from being re-elected.

"Never attribute to conspiracy that which can be explained by incompetence." ---Penn Gillette (paraphrased)

Hillarity is the one who wants to be queen of Bull@!$%# Mountain. This all happened on HER watch. As SoS was she in charge or just enjoying her four years of globe trotting for photo ops at taxpayer expense? I suspect the latter and for this dereliction she ought to pay.

It seems now the General's biggest concern is keeping this investigation into the Kelly/Paula thingy from exposing his abuse of power for a little sugar. As per Benghazi, let's hope he tells it like it really was.

Testifying does not imply truthfulness...unfortunately.

"This all happened on HER watch."

And yet, you had nothing to say about the 7 attacks on consulates and embassies that occurred from 2002-2008. Or does it only matter when there's a Democratic president? Don't bother to reply; I already know the answer.

I read that he admitted to the affair so that he could resign and be a civilian and able to testify truthfully about Benghazi.......anyone else heard this??

All of us do not read right wing blogs and that where that came from. Benghazi is another false misleading play used before the election to gain votes did not work the will not now. Already the word is the CIA were not involved in this. You right wingers can adjust your tinfoil hats and as far as your prdictions you will come away with just another dry hole on this. there are reasobible explanation for what happened there and none of them sinister. We are at war with alQueda morons and we are going to take a little but give a lot in it. Pestering the opposite party about this incident is aiding only AlQueda. Maybe thats wehe some of those millions came from you spen trying to unseat the President with your lies.

"Fedup-378382

Quick! Someone contact the folks at Bull@!$%# Mountain"

Ah, you must be talking about Fox News where they will be making up some kind of BS to show that this was some grand conspiracy.

Maybe you should read something besides the left-wing radical media outlets and you will be enlightened by the truth and the truth will set you free. The reasonable explanation is: Al Queda hates us, attacked us, and the left wing did not want this to be reported before the election because this administration is sympathetic to the overall muslim world. Your cheap shots (both Repubs. and Demos.) are just a childish wayof showingyour resentment for anyone who disagrees with your choice as president and your ideology of socialism. Not all of us are willing to bow to this way of life here in the U.S.A. If you prefer this kind of society then may I suggest you go somewhere that it is already in place. Send us a postcard and let us know how that works out for you.

Well said us patriot.

US Patriot:Your reasonable explanation sounds like bologna. To suggest that President Obama knew Al Queda attacked and killed Americans in the Libyan consulate including our Ambassador, and covered it up to protect the muslim world is beyond ridiculous. But you just keep living in your conservative bubble, making things up, and wondering where the real world went- like Bill O'reilly. I'm surprised you dont just say Obama himself attacked the consulate. I wont suggest perhaps you should leave as you are asking others to do, it is obvious you have already departed reality.

U.S. Patriot, (not even close) The fact that you throw out the word socialism, and left-wing radical media outlets, shows that you are woefully misinformed and that you are the one that needs to do some reading and be enlightened.

Has anyone who denies that Obama has Socialist agendas even bothered to read what the Socialist party is about? Because usurping the functions of the private sector by the Federal Government and making a society where everyone, regardless of what they contribute to society, gets the same benefit and reward is a Socialist agenda. When you create a welfare society with massive numbers of the population dependent on the government and a government that heavily taxes the people who are creating jobs and incomes you have a Socialist government. - welcome to Obama land, the land of the taxed versus the Entitiled...

Neo-cons crack me up. The U.S. has been a "socialist" nation since the Social Security Act of 1935. Kinda missing the train a bit with your outrage.

Seymour, please look up what socialism is. What you're describing is very extreme socialism, i.e. extreme communism. Different socialist party's have different agenda's because (and you won't believe this!) there are different levels/forms of it. You can be socialist and still believe the free market has a place. Look up what a 'mixed economy' is for god's sake.

Police = socialist

Fire department = socialist

Public schools = socialist

Dept of transport = socialist

And on, and on, and on.

Oooh, it's so scary!

Amen Seymore,
The ones that want to deny are the ones taking the hand outs and the ones that think that government should control every aspect of our lives. I fought for my countries freedoms, and it boils my blood when I see people wining about illegals taking their jobs (when was the last time they worked in a field picking plants or in a chicken factory cleaning the drop bins?),they complain about health care, but want to sue the doctor to the max when they have a complication with their surgery, It is things like this that if you want all of this socialist type of garbage then go live in Germany, Canada, and take on their lives. I said Socialist not communist.
I lived in Germany for 18 years, it wasn't bad, but medical insurance is what everyone here complains about it being if we have government run medical care. Don't fool yourself into believing its all great and free…………. Sorry you will have to pay for it, and all small businesses will have to insure their employees and for a lot of businesses that's a show stopper.
Higher taxes for the rich????? How many poor people do you know who hire people?????
You people whine about the 48% comment by Romney, well it is what it is, if you had a job and it paid you 80,000 and you cannot find a job paying that much so you go on welfare or unemployment, then it is what it is, you're in the 48%. Get a job whether it pays you minimum wage or not, this economy isn't getting better with all of you out there waiting for thing to change and all the while your sucking the government dry with your pay from them because your golden spoon job isn't there.
You don't want to hear this because you know its right, I have a job making 20-30,000 less than what I did 1 year ago, but do you think I did what a lot of you are doing right now??? NO I want our debt to come down, not add to it because the US is paying me to be lazy and produce illegitimate kids. It is what it is you all want this country better than help by working, and stop expecting uncle sam to pay you to be lazy, then maybe just maybe you will see the republican point of view.

As I've said before the "Real Story" isn't the BetrayUS "Affair".... The "Scandal" is what Paula Broadwell claims to have happened in Benghazi (the CIA's Secret & Illegal Prison) and what Obama knew about it beforehand and is attempting to "Cover-Up"!

Her only protection now is to put "Everything" into the Public Record before the "Administrations" Masters on Wall Street decide Paula may just "know too much" and puts her on "Obama's Kill List".....

President Obama's Kill List and What It Means For You.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhRjRapKoIE

Or "indefinitely detain" her under their brand new NDAA2012 without trial!

http://www.infowars.com/federal-court-rules-in-favour-of-indefinite-detention-of-us-citizens/

If you have committed no crime.......

“Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?...O'Brien: Of course he exists....Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?...O'Brien: You do not exist. ” ~George Orwell

@ Michigan voter, US Patriot is correct. I was one of those watching those left leaning Media outlets this entire time since the Benghazi tragedy, and it was a cover-up from day 1. Yet, there seems to be 50% of the voters in this country that either don't know or don't care concerning the tragedy and the subsequent lies spouted by the President, Secretary of State and others concerning this event. I can tell you, I have a BIG problem with our President spouting this crap to the American people, let alone the world. It was crap from the beginning and this time they got caught. Pitiful manipulation by the Administration concerning Petraeus is just more smoke and mirrors. Get on with it and lets get the truth.

Allen

Peterus testifying as a private citizen, he has no protections other then his private lawyer. If Congress finds him in Contempt - he goes to jail. He immediately lost his security clearances, which means he can't even access his own notes or records. He is bascially on his own.

If he still was the head of the CIA, he had all the CIA lawyers to protect him, staff to help answer questions. And if Congress found him in Contempt, he could tell congress to kiss off.

The President didn't force Peterus to screw up his stellar career and have an affair.

Rob80 - And they all suck! Except for the Fire dept. There all Democrats. Complacency kills!

Let's not change the subject, this is about what happened in Benghazi.

Obama may deny that he or his administration had anything to do with the Benghazi scandal but you don't call it an Eagle if it quacks like a lame duck.

What happened in 911, or the lead up to the war in Iraq???? Those are MUCH BIGGER questions. But the TeaThugs are afraid to persue that!!! SMEAR, SMEAR, SMEAR, that's all the teabaggers got left.......PATHETIC!!

What Mack don't you think Obama running his own Secret CIA Prison in Benghazi which got Ambassador Stevens and 3 other Americans Killed a couple of months is bigger news today than what Bush did 8 or 10 years ago?

Hmm well I'd have to agree with you over 911 but "Obama" has done his fair share of covering up that "Act Of Treason".....Now hasn't he?

Don't believe? Watch a Real American General Speak and then watch PBS fill in the "Details!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw&feature=g-all-f

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l-8PFk8j5I

And here it is that Barrack Obama has his own personal "Kill List".....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhRjRapKoIE

And King Barry granted Himself the Right To Indefinitely Detain Americans without Trial or even a Court Hearing when he signed NDAA2012 on 21/31/2011 even after "Promising US" he wouldn't do it!

“Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.” ~ George Orwell

MUW

Good stuff!

Why did we bomb Iraq?

Because we can't bomb MEXICO, the REAL ENEMY of the American people.

Why did we bomb Iraq?

Hmm....Ask a Liberal and I'm sure the answer will have nothing to do with the international community demanding action against a Dictator using WMDs to wipe out entire villages of his own people. A truthful answer like that would wipe out 4 years plus of campaigning and blame. Can't have the kool-aid's effectiveness diluted in any way, it's got to be taken full strength and without reservation to be truly effective.

Why? The conspiracy theory is that the administration knew about the affair for a long time, after the election they asked him to take the fall for benghazi, he refused, so they dumped details of the affair or he confessed. Anything he says negative about the administration will get the "disgruntled ex-employee" treatment by the media.

No, don't you see? This whole thing was planned the republicans over a year ago, before Benghazi even happened, so that when Petraeus did testify, he would no longer feel the need to protect the current administration. I'm pretty sure that she was a republican double agent. Now Petraeus is unleashed; watch him go off now. :)

Only in the Fox bubble do people concoct desperate conspiracy theories. Jblo. Time to adjust that tin foil hat. In other insane Right Wing news, a pregnant Arizona woman, Romney supporter, ran over her husband because he did not vote at all. And you wonder why we think you all are nuts?

So the same people that think Bush planted explosives in the world trade center think it's ridiculous that an administration would use incriminating personal information to keep officials in line in order that al qaeda's resurgence didn't dominate the news cycle in the last month of their re-election?

Lene-2340310, right, it was the "fox bubble" that said Bush orchestrated 9/11 as a pretext for war to invade Iraq to hand their oil fields over to his oil industry buddies?

Republican conspiracy theories are tame: obama's parents lied about his citizenship to get government benefits just like millions of others do each year OR the administration trying to manage its image on terrorism mishandled an event and diverted attention to a goofy youtube video.

It may sound crazy to you, but those of us who remember "I did not have sex with that women..." know that even the president will lie to our face if it's politically necessary.

4 killed is an al qaeda resurgency?

@jblo-- not necessarily crazy, but pretty inept if so. In a reasonable conspiracy you'd either a) hold him to blackmail on this so he'd testify favorably or b) incapacitate him so he didn't have to testify. Revealing your dirt, thus p**sing him off, before he testifies anyway is really dumb-- you've just removed all his incentives to testify your way. It's not like revealing an affair would discredit his testimony significantly in and of itself, this is 2012 after all...

Lene-2340310

In other insane Right Wing news, a pregnant Arizona woman, Romney supporter, ran over her husband because he did not vote at all. And you wonder why we think you all are nuts?

And you wonder why we think you (women) are all nuts.

See how that works, making blanket statements about a group of people because of the actions of a few, or in your case one? Try not to do that.

David K-2033480, ah but you assume the admin is still in control. He could have refused to go along and outted himself so they wouldn't have anything on him. And, NO, I don't think the admin would kill him. They're just goofy lawyer/politicians trying to contain the benghazi scandal and win an election.

KDFman,

Taking one extremist and putting them forward as a representative of the whole is their entire game plan. Republicans always have to answer for appalachian snake handlers and regrettable rape comments or anything else the media can blow up. You'll notice though that Democrat nuts like occupy wall street or ELF or code pink or the obama phone woman are never put forward as representing the whole.

Four men were killed in Libya and had a couple of heroes obeyed orders there would be 20 or 30 more dead or being held hostage (similar to Iran)... had that happened, even MSN and CBS may have reported it prior to the election (at least I think maybe they would have)... Unless you give our President six months, he cannot make a decision thus we lose drones intact and our ambassadors get killed. -- The whole mess stinks! If you read your own comments, you would think that only Presidents and Generals have affairs! Reality is of course that none of you want to read about the trash collector or the mailman stopping to "talk" to your neighbors or the "special order" for the pizza deliveryman when the neighbor is "out of town". -- All of this probably is not a conspiracy but it certainly takes the spotlight off of the mishandling of the Benghazi attack and it discredits whatever the General says even prior to his testimony.

jblo, what a crock. That's all the RWNJ's keep talking about. People who have jobs don't vote for Obama. People who vote for Obama only do it to get free phones.

The right just keeps repeating the same dumb statements over and over no matter how many times they are shown to be wrong.

Oh Lord I'm so tired of hearing about this Benghazi incident...

Look, if you think this is such a massive threat to our national security then you need to be lobbying for airstrikes or a ground invasion - not trying to smear opponents to win political points.

Michigan voter I think that would be true through both parties.

Would it not be considered a conspiracy to suppress every sensitive issue in the media until after an election.On the assumption that they might have a negative impact on one of the candidates?

Oh Lord I'm so tired of hearing about this Benghazi incident...

Look, if you think this is such a massive threat to our national security then you need to be lobbying for airstrikes or a ground invasion - not trying to smear opponents to win political points.

Right! Drop Benghazi so we can go back to "WMDs! WMDs!" and "Blame Bush!" That's real politics. <sarc>

The right just keeps repeating the same dumb statements over and over no matter how many times they are shown to be wrong.

"WMDs! WMDs!" You mean like that? Do you people even listen to what you are spouting?

Where did you hear that? I've not heard anyone say the conspiracy was he wouldn't testify. It would be impossible for him to not testify so long as he's alive.

Benghazi is soooooooooooooo much greater an atrocity than was Watergate. Watergate was about GOP spying on Dem headquarters. No one died, not sovereign ground blow to pieces. No national security jeopardized. It was a joke in comparison.

jblo-1489250

That was all over these forums the last several day-"now he doesn't work for them, he can't be required to testify." Not true. But that is what conspiracists were alleging. Based on the posts on here, unless he says something totally damaging to the Administration, they're not going to believe him anyway! If they don't have some sort of conspiracy to believe in, apparently they don't have anything else to do with their life.

Clark..Benghazi was a consulate , not an embassy,i.e. not sovereign by any measure.. National security was not jeopardized as there is little there of any security risk..It is essentially a place one can go where they speak your language.. Under the Bush administration there were eleven such attacks..Where was your outrage then??

Jim, it's not a conspiracy to keep him from testifying, it's to make any contrary (to the administration line) testimony tainted.

And consulates are treated the same as embassies. It is American property.

Deb, Petraeus is retired.

Petraeus is retired from the military. His pension is in tack. He is collecting.

Not so with General Allen. He can lose his retirement, especially if security was breached. My question is how did Allen have time to run a war with precision while writing/reading/sending 20,000-30,000 emails. That is a fulltime job. Who actually was running the war? Is Allen the reason so many Allied troops have been getting killed by the people they were training on his watch? Allen has been paid high buck to run the war not spend the bulk of his time sending emails to a woman.

What do the regulations say about Generals stealing money to live the high life?

Define Justice.

What does justice mean to you raddave???

Define Justice.

Define Justice = the truth

raddave

Define Justice.

Revenge. Just ask a Holocaust victim.

Unless he says Obama attacked the consulate and shot our ambassador faux news will insist he's lying.

That would probably be closer to the truth than what Obama has said about it.

Obama called and the Seals came. The Seals called and no one came.

Close the door, OBAMA. You're lettin' out the stink!

You are correct but these are faux news crazies who hate facts. They are still waiting for teabagger polling math to kick in before they take down their Romney/Ryan lawn signs.

sharky, you're an arrogant, idiotic piece of trash. The garbage that comes out of your posts doesn't represent anything most American's think and makes you look like a fool. Stop posting unless you have some substance to add to a discussion.

Your a troll sharky. And not a good one.

Very well said Steve. Sharky, however, is like so many other liberal posters. Their two talking points are to blame Bush, and make fun of Fox News(which has more viewers than the other news cables combined).

I try to be moderate on most issues but this Robinhood mentality that they have been force-fed by this administration will be the un-doing of this great country. I come from an area of the country that has a lot of conservative democrats and they are certainly not liking the direction the far left agenda is taking us!

sharky

Your simply in denial. Obozo is useless like you!

Steve: Actually, YOUR comments are irrelevant. MOST Americans (as shown by the numbers who voted for President Obama vs. the lack of numbers who voted for Romney) do not think as you do, and Sharkey's comments are pretty much on the money. When are you RWNJ's going to get over the fact that President Obama was re-elected and admit to yourself that it was a combination of many things that caused it; i.e., poor campaign, pitiful candidate, etc. You just can't bring yourself to believe this without coming up with all sorts of conspiracy ideas to back up your lack of dealing with reality.

Dogs80: I also know several conservative democrats, and unfortunately, they do NOT think as you do about the "far left agenda." In fact, about 95% of them are totally thrilled that President Obama was re-elected. Can you explain that? Maybe your friends should contact my friends and agree on a few things before you make inane comments.

All of you, GET A LIFE!!! We're all interested in what happened, how it happened, what could have been done differently to stop it, and why it happened in the first place. It has nothing to do with the election, our president, or any other out-of-this world conspiracy theories! Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and I'm sure we'll learn from this.

dogs80,

The majority of the country is obviously not liking the direction the far right is trying to take us!

It is not the call of the CIA or the State Department or the Secretary of Defense to sen, or not send, in troops to aid or rescue Americans in danger in a foreign country. It is up to the president to decide. So far, the White House claims Obama knew nothing and was told nothing except the lie (yes, it's a lie) that the attack was the result of a protest that got out of control.

Basically, that means that the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the CIA are operating autonomously and without any control or knowledge by the president. And people like you re-elected him.

The "big deal" is that he resigned because of that affair.

...And, there's obviously a lot more going on here than just the boinking of a biographer.

Kari-398894

It wasn't swept under the rug at all, Slick Willie Clinton shot his load onto the front of her little blue Gap dress.

And that stained blue dress is now in the Smithsonian preserved for all time. Clinton, and I'm sure Patreaus, are very, very sorry for what they both did. Power is, and always will be, an aphrodisiac for both the powerful and those eager to please them.

Kari - Thanks for asking the same question I've been wanting to ask.

I'm more concerned about General Ward who thinks it's OK to live the high life on the taxpayers' dime.

I am more concerned that his punishment didn't fit the crime.

I wonder why?

I believe the relection results showed which side would be kissing the a$$. I believe the words " electoral landslide" apply.. To rephrase, neener neener

I hope you don't mind that I repost this.... way too funny!

The democratic donkey and the Mexican mule are mating!!!

It's going to be behind closed doors. They don't want us to know.

That's the way it's been reported that the Senate handles things.

Behind closed doors. Whoops there goes those tricky old liberals again showing their transparency.

But won't he be testifying in front of Republicans that you voted for and trust?

Talk to the Hand

Hello! Classified information! These hearings were always going to include public and private sessions. As bmilleroh said, don't you trust your elected Republican representatives to work in your best interest?

There was no "decision to stand down our forces."

Tell that to Charles Woods, Father of Tyrone Woods who was killed hours after the attack began.

Gen.Pat. did no more wrong than Clinton. Bottom line is Clinton should have been impeached, Obama and Hillary should be tried for murder. All the innocent people that have suffered...their families, etc. I am soooo sick of our "so-called" government. I didn't vote Obama in the first time much less the second term. Don't you all find it strange that none of this came to light before elction time again? Not only do I find that strange but do you remember Herman Cain? He had the right ideas and I'd be willing to bet my life that the Obama adminstration had a lot to do with all the lies that was told about him so he wouldn't run for office. To me he is Hitler in disguise. What is wrong with all the people that voted for him (Obama) or were our votes against him in vain? I really think the whole was "planned" from the beginning and they only want us to feel that we actually had a voice.

Where are your facts, where is your proof? All you have is made up stories, no facts.

@@ddoss

Bill Clinton was impeached but was not removed from the office of President. His law license was permently removed as part of the impeachment. It was the dicision of the Senate to not have him removed after the impeachment.

I agree with you, that it is to strange that all of this comes out just days after the election. It will be a sad day in America if all of this information was delibertly held back as to not hurt Obama's election.

We have four Americans dead. If an administration is willing to lie and with hold information about a dead US ambassador, for the sake of re-election, what will they do for the "common citizen".

quovadisusa

Over 4000 men and women lost their lives in Iraq on a war trumped up by lies. A war that was supported by almost every Republican. A war that was promoted by Fox news. Thousands of young men and women came home dismembered and injured by a war that was based on WMDS of which there were none. Canada was asked to join in on the coalition and Canada refused stating that the evidence was weak and not credible enough to risk the lives of Canadians. If you are such a caring person maybe you should direct at least a little anger on the lives that were lost for no reason and direct them at the previous administration who were responsible for this. I suspect you won't though because your weak post is purely political and you have no true feelings for the wrong doing of war.

You do realize that two Republicans were made aware of this prior to the election, right? Why wouldn't they be talking now or have talked before the election if this would have anything to do with your conspiracy theories? There's is no indication that the President knew prior. And, even if it had come out, why would this have impacted the election? People assume that would be some kind of mark on the President (like he knows and controls everyone's personal life) but they never explain why.

Wow , a General had an affair. If you took every man and women out of the forces who had an affair , Officers included , the military would be depleted to probably 1/3 to 1/2. Everyone in the U.S. just loves a scandal involving sex. People thrive on it . The National Enquirer sells millions as does the Globe and other newspapers that make their millions on this stuff in the U.S. He had an affair. He is human. So what. Is the public in America so sexually deprived that they think this is the biggest news in the world , or are they envious that they are sitting home bored watching TV and eating Fritos and not getting anything themselves. Oh yeh National security. Affairs are less dangerous than a drunken General spouting his mouth off. Alchoholics can be much worse and there are lots of those. Leave the guy alone.

Who cares what some father of the dead has to say? Being related to a victim doesn't give you access to inside information. Drop the stupid emotional rhetoric and stick with facts.

Mikey:

Did you look at the list of Democrats who voted for the war? Duped by W? Political expediency with peoples' lives? Or maybe they had the same info and drew the same conclusions....like most of the world.

As for your insults and insinuations, do the world a favor and don't let your DNA replicate...

perhaps the truth was also burried at sea

are barry's lips moving?

The love lorn FBI agent did not start the investigation on his own without approval above. He was told to start it. He then became infatuated, and was removed. Gen Allen brought himself into to this by sending inappropriate e-mails. He got caught. Maybe it doesn't seem like a big deal, but in the military, this is a big deal.

Yet General Wards stealing is not WRONG enough to fire him. He just got a demotion. Why???

skrewdworld do you really have to ask why?

@don: ...I'm with you! ...This whole administration and its dirty tricks are stinking way worse than Watergate! ...One or all of these people needs to resign and/or be arrested!

I really don't know what people are hoping to be revealed by Petraeus. Obama knew it wasn't about the "movie" hours after the attack. He lied. He thought it would hurt his chaces for re-election. Everyone knew this before the election, so what's different now that the election is over? Nothing!

Obama considered the deaths of 4 Americans as a bump in the road to democracy for Libya, and less than optimal. He didn't care then - his re-election was far more important, and he doesn't care now that he has been re-elected.

So really, what do you expect to occur as a result of these hearings?

Glad that Petraeus will speak before C0ngress -- Hop thety (and we) all can look beyond the current "affair' and get to the truth and the real facts @ the bottom of this attack. Too many here venting their right-wing agenda and "sore loser nonsense"

The bad news is, unless someone lies under oath to Congress, no laws were broken. Extremely poor judgement perhaps that allowed people to die, but nothing that will send anyone to jail or get anyone impeached.

So what if Petraeus says that the response was hopelessly bungled and the video had nothing to do with it? Patraes has already retired. Obama was re-elected and will not run again. Hillary might get hurt, but 4 years is a long time to turn that around. In short, other than being interesting to watch this will all amount to nothing.

Just wait. The best is yet to come....

Skeptical and Jaguar: If what you are saying is correct, then this country owes Richard Nixon an apology.

Hiliary has known since September that she was slated to testify oin Thursday. Now both she and Panetta "have a schedule conflict" and both wil be in Austrailia and Obama is out of the country?

Skeptical: And you know this HOW? Apparently, you have the main ear to the grindstone in the White House and know things that most people don't know (yet). I find it difficult that you and the others don't understand that what the president knew a couple of hours after the attack was only what was speculation at the time. Everyone with a brain knows that you have to launch a full-scale investigation before you can come up with a valid reason....things that appear to be so at first are often not the case after a thorough investigation....you learn this as a police detective. But, you'd rather call our president a liar instead of attempting to understand the way things work in the system. Pretty sad actually.

You need to get over the fact that President Obama was re-elected based not only on the electoral college vote, but also the "popular" vote. Why is it so difficult for you to understand that not everyone thought Romney and the GOP platform were what was needed to lead this country for the next 4 years? Unfortunately, the GOP failed to realize that the American public weren't as stupid as they thought and they were grossly misinformed about their "platform" and the final outcome of the election. Hopefully, they will learn their lesson between now and 2016....if not, they will have a hard time re-electing a Republican president in the future.

Didi I would like to know, do you say your nightly prayers to Allah Obama?

Hillary can't testify this week, she has much more important business and is way too busy because she had to attend the wine tasting party in Australia!

Correction She is.

It's always the same with democrats. They're in charge. They know it all. We have to do it the way that they say, but let it hit the fan, and they turn into Sergeant Schultz. They know nothing.

Look at Obama. Every day we hear how brilliant he is, but he didn't know anything about Benghazi, and he didn't know anything about a months old FBI investigation into his CIA chief. So which is it? Is he brilliant, or is he stupid?

She opened her mouth just long enough to take the blame for it.

I hope they all get it in the rectum for there lies elbow deep!

Didn't Hillary tell the news media that "she was responsible" as she was falling on her sword. She made that announcement before the second (or third) debate. Make her testify, with a lie detector, (or is it called Bullshirt monitor). Oh well she will be coached by her hubby Billy on the art of lying under oath.

Apparently you don't realize this week's hearings aren't the only hearings they're planning to hold on this issue.

Anyone else think Obama misses the good old days, when all he had to deal with was minor league criticism from General McChrystal? He just didn't know how good he had it...

General Ward needs to write a book entitled "free money and how to take it."

@Gary: ...Amen!

Obama does work for us - we hired him. Why doesn't he get up and just apologize for the deaths of 4 Americans? He has not done the Honorable or Decent thing for 4 years can't wait for the next 4.

Don't you trust your elected Republicans?

say what you want about obama,, but he got bin laden and is taking out the nut cases over there in afganistan and pakistan with drones without putting massive troops on the ground to be slaughtered for nothing. And thats what it is. for nothing,, as soon as we leave that mideaval society will still be there,, still be the same We should have been smart and went after the money and the commanders,, 4000 kids would still be alive. Its like deep throat said in watergate.. go after the money source , thats who is is responsible

@HD: ...Two things I know for certain:

1) The SEALS, not King Obama, pasted the man believed to be Bin Laden.

2) They dumped the man believed to be Bin Laden's body in the ocean before it could be put up to sufficient public scrutiny.

BTW, I agree with you that we should not have ANY troops in the Middle East (or anyplace else besides America). ...We should place all our troops around our borders to hedge the plague of illegal immigration and keep our own country safe. Also this would allow our military to live with their own families. I also agree with you about the "money source" thing.

HD123,

You are delusional. The intel to catch Osama was put in place and gathered under the Bush administration. That idiot we call a President wa just the beneficiary of years of intel. All Obama is doing is driving us further into debt, and entitling able bodied losers to keep sucking on the system.

Funny tht youy clowns attck Obama when he in fact got down i less than four years everything that Bush failed to do in two terms --and witl fart fewer deaths of Amercianservice personall -- I guess over 3,000 undr "W" 's watch on 9/11 -- and two costly wars is OK with you right-wing moronse. Facts look into it (HINT: Don't go to FOX News to find them!)

I actually go to Frontline, PBS, AP etc. We were in scaling back following the surge the surge you nimrod. There has been no job growth. Your a jerk off Rob

Rob: Consider education.

Rob - We ended Iraq on Bush's time line and will be ending Afghanistan under Bush's time line. Obama has us 17 trillion in debt - that is 7 trillion more in Obama's 4 years than the 10 trillion in Bush's 8 years.

1st of all I don't se why what the President called it makes a difference. He has dealt with it so why is this still a talking point. You should be talking about the fiscal cliff. What are you trying to get to the bottom of? And its just stupid to keep talking about it. Get over it.

The truth is that she had access to his confidential military email, and disclosed that he declared Benghazi a terrorist attack less than 1 hour after it started. She also disclosed that he notified the White House Situation Team, who did nothing (except notify the president, who went to sleep). No security breach? Obama's lying again.

I can see that the Republicans did not learn that crying wolf constantly does not work and helped them lose this election. Fux news is about to have an annurysm over the Patreus situation. What was hidden? Who knew what when? OMG, OMG. Same with Benghazi. Give them a chance to run a full investigation before you start jumping on the gazillion consipracy theories you are all so good at creating.

Newsflash! If you think the Government tells you everything about the many events that have transpired in the Middle East you are fooling yourselves. Many men and women have been killed without so much of a question asked but since this happened during the election period it's taken a whole new life. I am not minimizing the Benghazi issue in any way and like the rest of you would like to know what transpired. However, I also know that certain information is classified and cannot be released.

I for one plan to wait until all of the details are given before I go off the deep end with conspiracy theories.

Also, CSPAN and other news outlets have reported repeatedly from the start of this OMG situation that Patreus was ALWAYS GOING TO HAVE TO TESTIFY! Take a break from your hatred of this administration and the President and allow for things to be worked out.

Chill, breathe!

Fedup -- I'm Fedup with O'Bama's total failure a President. O'Bama is a compulsive liar!! He has constantly used misinformation and deception to deceive the Legal America Citizens. He constantly uses the "Race Card" to get the support of the Black Community (who will vote for anyone that is Black, regardless of their abilities) and Latinos (who expect O'Bama to re-pay their support by getting rid of Federal Immigration Laws which O'Bama has ordered to be ignored anyway). What happens when the money to pay for O'Bama's increased Entitlement Programs runs out and those deadbeats that sit on their backsides waiting for their handouts suddenly find themselves out in the Cold?. They would still support the Con Man O'Bama because they lack the intelligence to do anything else and would most likely blame someone else for O'Bama's total failure. The only saving grace for the U.S. is that O'Bama not be able to stay as President for the next 4 years..

Like how Fox Noise and the Right Wing Echo Chamber also cannibalized Governor Christie for his work and cooperation w/ President Obama during the Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts.

How on earth did they get mixed up with those dirtball Kardashian wannabees ?

Our administration in the White House is a joke. Hillary is too busy to be bothered with Benghazi, Obama is still trying to get transparency in his administration without taking responsibility for anything. Meanwhile the families of the seals, that fought for 7 hours asking for help and died, will never know why Obama turned his back on them. Obama lied for his own reasons - good thing he has experience in community organizing.

...King Obama has done way more lying than Nixon ever even thought of.

Clinton is a liar, he campaigned for a liar. Clinton was under oath and kept saying that "he did not have sex with that woman" and lets not forget the famous "it depends on what your definition of 'is' is." Obama lied when he claimed that he called it a terrorist attack in the Rose Garden. He generalized all attacks and referenced 9/11/01 when he stated "acts of terror". Not the same thing as actually calling it a terrorist attack. Like Clinton, I hope Obummer will be impeached. HE LIED AND AMERICANS DIED! But, hey, what are ONLY 4 deaths when an election is on the line, right?

The Muslim terrorist did the dastardly deed and Obama is a Muslim, that should tell us something.

Sorry guys--you lost this one. But you'll get your chance in another 4 years.

No - we ALL lost this one.