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The Petraeus Affair And The Benghazi Cover-Up
The Petraeus Affair and the Benghazi Cover-up
The resignation of the director of the CIA and one of America’s most decorated military commanders David Petraeus has dominated headlines and air-time in American media recently.
But while his extramarital affair’s been in the spotlight, the real cause for concern are the ramifications for the country as a whole.
For more RT talks to James Corbett – editor of The Corbett Report.
The “operation to take down Petraeus may be motivated by backdoor political dealings,” says Corbett.
He also says that a change in the top at the CIA may lead to policy changes in regard to Afghanistan and drone strikes in neighboring Pakistan
RT: Of course, decisions made by the CIA resonate across the globe – what are the implications of General Petraeus’ resignation, do you think, for the US?
James Corbett: Well it’s a good question, one that hasn’t been asked enough in this scandal. If the old adage is true, that nothing in politics happens by accident, then I think that’s nowhere more true than is it when it comes to these political sex scandals. As we’ve seen over the years, for example with the DC Madame case – where her client list was covered up by her murder or suicide, depending on which side of that debate you come down on, or Elliot Spitzer penning an editorial in the Washington Post, exposing the subprime mortgage crisis and then being caught up in his own sex scandal literally just hours later after a leak of FBI wire tap information to The New York Times. So the question as to why is this scandal emerging now, why it is embroiled on General Petraeus’ and what information did he have that would potentially have been interesting to people … interested in bringing him down, and we can start to see some pieces of this puzzle emerging. It becomes clear now that there is the indication that he will not be testifying in upcoming congressional hearings into what happened in Benghazi in September. And because of that, some key information about what happened in Benghazi might not come to light – including some interesting information which just emerged recently, in fact last month, that general Petraeus’ alleged mistress, Miss Broadwell, was giving speeches about how the CIA annex in Benghazi was being used as a secret prison, which is why it was attacked in September. So there are some very big things which are emerging right now and it looks like the operation to take down Petraeus at this particular moment might be motivated by some of those backdoor political dealings, rather than the sex scandal that it is supposedly made out to be.
