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In reply to the discussion: This is Seven Days In May, not "creative speculation"... [View all]msanthrope
(37,549 posts)149. PC--take a look at this video---
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/bob-woodward-romney-benghazi_n_2090833.html
I thought this stunk to high heaven when it was posted---not because I didn't believe it happened. It did. But because Bob Woodward was and is Naval Intelligence. The unanswered story form Watergate will always be "who on the Right wanted Nixon gone?"
So who was Woodward burning there? And why? He didn't just casually drop that stink bomb on Sean Hannity--he planned it. WHY???
Woodward, appearing on the Sean Hannity show to discuss media coverage of Obama administration scandals, used the anecdote as an example of how he had tried to look into the story behind the Sept. 11 attack on an U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi that left four Americans dead, including the ambassador.
"Some people close to Romney, a couple of weeks ago, just showed up at my house and said that they had somebody in a very sensitive position in the U.S. government who was willing to meet with me and give me information about Benghazi," Woodward told Hannity.
After the source failed to show at several meetings, Woodward said he finally met the person and was disappointed by the quality of the information.
"He finally showed up and he didn't have anything where he had any firsthand knowledge," Woodward said. "He said you ought to talk to his person and that person and so forth."
It was not clear from Woodward's remarks whether the people shopping the source in the first place were part of Romney's campaign, or were operating with the candidate's knowledge.
"Some people close to Romney, a couple of weeks ago, just showed up at my house and said that they had somebody in a very sensitive position in the U.S. government who was willing to meet with me and give me information about Benghazi," Woodward told Hannity.
After the source failed to show at several meetings, Woodward said he finally met the person and was disappointed by the quality of the information.
"He finally showed up and he didn't have anything where he had any firsthand knowledge," Woodward said. "He said you ought to talk to his person and that person and so forth."
It was not clear from Woodward's remarks whether the people shopping the source in the first place were part of Romney's campaign, or were operating with the candidate's knowledge.
I thought this stunk to high heaven when it was posted---not because I didn't believe it happened. It did. But because Bob Woodward was and is Naval Intelligence. The unanswered story form Watergate will always be "who on the Right wanted Nixon gone?"
So who was Woodward burning there? And why? He didn't just casually drop that stink bomb on Sean Hannity--he planned it. WHY???
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That's funny because I had been thinking of Gen. James Matoon Scott as I read this
navarth
Nov 2012
#1
It really does, except that the guy's name was Smedley. That's a tough one to get past.
Squinch
Nov 2012
#139
if so, it is the most dunderheaded and incompetent military/CIA operation ever
librechik
Nov 2012
#9
But Romney's "satan grin" press conference suggests that it was something that was
Squinch
Nov 2012
#67
Yes, and I think it probably did, but I also think that Petraeus has enough supporters that
Squinch
Nov 2012
#73
After 37 "faithful" years a guy has an affair? That's the first aspect that smells funny to me.
mulsh
Nov 2012
#112
2 questions. 1st: Why would their "October surprise" come in early September? And 2nd...
Bucky
Nov 2012
#105
There is a photo floating around - of Romney - right after his Benghazi press conference
Lucinda
Nov 2012
#24
Part of the answer is that the anonymity protects those who foolishly overly-alert so that they
AnotherMcIntosh
Nov 2012
#77
Somehow I don't think that the MIRT knowledge with respect to identities is shared with others.
AnotherMcIntosh
Nov 2012
#87
I just looked in the Forum and Group Hosts folder and there was a SOP alert as well
Whisp
Nov 2012
#89
I'm skeptical, but still realize that every player in this is a dedicated right-winger.
Zen Democrat
Nov 2012
#41
PCIntern, I've tuned out because the talking heads play this as just a sex scandal...
Hekate
Nov 2012
#74
This country lost "one of its most brilliant generals"? Brilliant? In what way exactly?
AnotherMcIntosh
Nov 2012
#78
So the unanimous consensus of unnamed and unidentifiable persons establishes him as brilliant?
AnotherMcIntosh
Nov 2012
#91
You're right, and you wanna know why...Repukes are keeping quiet about this...
joeybee12
Nov 2012
#81
I think you are probably right. I find the intransigence of Democratic Party's leadership
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#92
Very few people took note of the fact that two-star Army general Al Haig was appointed as....
OldDem2012
Nov 2012
#110
Press TV: 5 recent surprise resignations by generals & admirals mean Obama just shut down a Coup...
MinM
Nov 2012
#130
"one is going to have to prove ot me that this, or some version of this did not occur." "
former9thward
Nov 2012
#131