Andrea Mitchell is reporting that 2nd woman has a close friend who works in the local FBI office and was asked, as a friend, to investigate these anonymous emails. It started as a local FBI investigation and went up from there. The investigation ultimately determined that it was a personal matter. It was THEN that this same local Tampa agent took it to a friend of his in the republican party and someone in the US House. Then it went to Cantor. This was two weeks ago. Stay tuned.
@JPB,
Quote:Um, so the most recent news that came out was a Fox News report by Jennifer Griffin. I got it on a distribution list I'm on, and it has some pretty insightful stuff in it, if you want to look for it."
And this was a woman having an affair with the top CIA guy?
Quote:[UPDATE: The CIA has denied holding prisoners at the annex, according to the DailyBeast's Eli Lake. The Washington Post's Greg Miller adds in a tweet, "CIA adamant that Broadwell claims about agency holding prisoners at Benghazi are not true."]
Broadwell also said flatly that forces at the CIA annex had requested backup from a special Delta Force group she called the CINC's in extremis force. It was not clear whether she was basing her comments on an Oct. 26 Fox News report by Jennifer Griffin, or whether her information came from elsewhere. (Griffin refers to it as "Commanders [sic] in Extremis Force," but does not mention Delta Force or any Libyan prisoners.)
A CIA spokeswoman disputed the Fox News account at the time, saying, "no one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate." The agency later released a timeline of that evening's events that cast doubt on Griffin's story; the Pentagon also released its own timeline.
Quote:Well, just to create some context for those in the room. As you know, the ambassaador in Benghazi was killed along with a couple of security agents who happened to be CIA security, paramilitary forces. That just came out today in Fox News.
But the challenge has been the fog of war. And the greater challenge is that it's political hunting season, and so this whole thing has been turned into a very political sort of arena, if you will.
But the facts that came out today were that the ground forces there at the CIA annex, which is different from the consulate, were requesting reinforcements.
They were requesting the, what's called the CINC's in extremis force -- a group of Delta Force operators, our very, most talented guys we have in the military. They could have come and reinforced the consulate and the CIA annex that were under attack.
Now, I don't know if a lot of you heard this, but the CIA annex had actually, um, had taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner and they think that the attack on the consulate was an effort to try to get these prisoners back. So that's still being vetted.
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@JPB,
Pretty amazing Cantor didn't say anything two weeks ago.
@revelette,
If I was to give him the benefit of the doubt I'd say he determined there was no political capital with the information. He certainly determined there wasn't enough political capital to use it before the election. If I was to listen to my gut I'd say that the House Republicans are trying to turn Benghazi into an impeachable offense and this might play into that future narrative.
@JPB,
It is a strange twist, but gosh, I hope we don't go through that whole impeachment thing again for so many reasons that have nothing to do with Obama as a President personally.
@JPB,
how they're going to avoid pulling in Republicans who have known about the investigation for some time will be something to watch
@JPB,
There is a lot of things that are not clear as to whether for example the FBI did get access to Petraeus email account with or without a warrant or they just found copies of his email on Paula Broadwell computer hard drive.
They might not have even needed a warrant to gain access to her computer as a hell of a lot of people will roll over when someone with an FBI badge show up at their door.
Lot of details missing here to say the least.
@ehBeth,
Other than Cantor who has known about this for two weeks (amazing he told no one else) what other republicans knew about this for some time?
So what have we learned? Besides nothing? "Stiff dick has no conscience"
Here's some things for men to remember when selecting someone outside your marriage to screw:
1) Once you have screwed, the woman in question knows you can't be trusted.
2) Some women don't care about that.
3) Some women do.
4) Always ask, before unsnapping any bra straps, if the woman is a bunny boiler.
5)Listen to the way she laughs (or doesn't) to determine whether she has you by the nuts.
Write these down and look at them several times a day, they have to become instinctive. If you wait until your dick is hard, there won't be enough blood going to your brain to remember anything.
Joe(Say...I was going to ask you something, but nevermind.)Nation
@BillRM,
According to Andrea Mitchell they got a warrant.
@revelette,
Of greater interest to me is that appropriate committee members were not informed but Eric Cantor was.
@revelette,
It is, but it's also to his credit that he didn't go public with the information or leak it. Perhaps he consulted the Romney campaign and they nixed the notion.
If there is an investigation, I see no reason why Cantor should be called to testify, not-with-standing any self-serving immunity members of congress may have voted themselselves.
@JPB,
My understanding is that Cantor was informed by a whistle-blower, and not officially by the FBI.
@JPB,
If members of congress are irate because they were not informed of all this before the eleventh hour so to speak, why are they not irate of Cantor for not telling the relevant members of congress who deals with this sort of thing when he first found out two weeks ago?
@revelette,
Maybe they are. Would you really expect them to go public with such a sentiment?
@Finn dAbuzz,
It was supposedly the same local Tampa agent who was a friend of Jill Kelly's.
