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kpete

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Sun Feb 10, 2013, 04:26 PM Feb 2013

Bombshell article about Petraeus and Benghazi, based on e-book to be released Tuesday

SUN FEB 10, 2013 AT 12:06 PM PST
Bombshell article about Petraeus and Benghazi, based on e-book to be released Tuesday
by joanneleon


A bombshell article has been published in the DailyMail about David Petraeus and the circumstances around his spectacular fall and about the reasons behind the attack on the U.S. embassy and CIA annex in Benghazi.

The article is based on an e-book written by two former members of elite U.S. military forces and they claim that Petraeus was taken down by a palace coup of sorts, by high-level CIA officers (with the help of his personal bodyguards and contacts at the FBI) who did not like the way Petraeus was running The Company.




They also claim that the Benghazi attack was retaliation for U.S. Special Operations military raids on Libyan militants, raids of which Petraeus and Ambassador Stevens were not aware. The secret raids, according to the authors, targeted leaders of Al Qaeda affiliated militias in Libya, carried out by "hit squads" and one operation happened days before the attack on the embassy.




All of it appears to be based on anonymous sources, some of whom allegedly refused to speak to anyone else. It was written by former members of Special Operations forces in the U.S. military. If and until there are sources on the record or some other evidence, we will have to decide for ourselves how much trust to place in these accounts.

more plus links:
anybody?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/10/1186044/-A-Crack-in-the-Wall-is-Heating-Up

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Bombshell article about Petraeus and Benghazi, based on e-book to be released Tuesday (Original Post) kpete Feb 2013 OP
Uhhhh...so the whole story about Broadwell emailing Kelley and launching the FBI TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #1
Kicking, why does nobody care about this? I POPPED POPCORN, DAMMIT! TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #3
Oops that links to the wrong diary, kpete. Lone_Star_Dem Feb 2013 #2
An e-book means no one else wanted it. randome Feb 2013 #4
It's probably crap. But still interesting. TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #5

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
1. Uhhhh...so the whole story about Broadwell emailing Kelley and launching the FBI
Sun Feb 10, 2013, 04:38 PM
Feb 2013

investigation is false? Is that what I'm reading?

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