bill: did petraeus sign off on that. that s an interesting point. i have also obtained an email from pretty who was of course the cia director at the time. he was concerned that the things had been edited down to the point of uselessness. bill: i don t think petraeus signed off on that with all due within mr. karl. i have a direct quote iom petraeus email would just as soon not use them. he didn t like these talking points. bill: that s right. you said february. that was september 15th. i m sorry. bill: let s be clear. david petraeus the evidence the cia didn t sign off on this at all. . it was the white house and the state department working together who made these edits and mislead the world into thinking it could have been anti-islamic video put out by some nut in the u.s.a. here is the bottom line why need to find out who in the white house drove this whether it was the president or somebody else trying to protect him in a reelection campaign.
bill: did petraeus sign off on that. that s an interesting point. i have also obtained an email from pretty who was of course the cia director at the time. he was concerned that the things had been edited down to the point of uselessness. bill: i don t think petraeus signed off on that with all due within mr. karl. i have a direct quote iom petraeus email would just as soon not use them. he didn t like these talking points. bill: that s right. you said february. that was september 15th. i m sorry. bill: let s be clear. david petraeus the evidence the cia didn t sign off on this at all. . it was the white house and the state department working together who made these edits and mislead the world into thinking it could have been anti-islamic video put out by some nut in the u.s.a. here is the bottom line why need to find out who in the white house drove this whether it was the president or somebody else trying to protect him in a reelection campaign.
and yet, he seems to me inextricably bound up in politics, insofar as he cannot be a neutral adjudicator or observer or a sort of advocate about whether the war should continue or not, right? i mean, he seems boxed in. to the extent that we re listening to him seems like we re never going to get general petraeus saying, you know what, guys, this is not working. he wasn t set out there to be a neutral observer of the strategy and to sort of report back as a completely disinterested party. he was sent out there because he was an architect of the strategy that general mcchrystal was pursuing, so he s come and picked up the reins and carried it forward. he s a true believer in the counterinsurgency strategy. and it was a strategy and is a strategy that has been approved by president obama. he is doing what his commander in chief wants him to do. all that said, i don t think petraeus is a guy who is going to sort of blindly rush off and continue on with the
don t believe me, look at what happened when president obama nominated petraeus to his current post as top nato commander in afghanistan. you ll recall, obama had to call on petraeus services an general mcchrystal talked smack about his civilian superiors and got himself canned. but when obama tapped petraeus to step in for the dismissed mcchrystal, it took the u.s. senate all of seven days to confirm petraeus nomination by a vote of 99-0. here s what they had to say about him. you re not allowed to assume confirmation, by the way, but i am allowed to assume confirmation. i m not sure if frank sinatra, elvis presley, or hank aaron would get those type of accolades. just as he did with president bush in iraq, general petraeus is using that scalp tal to
and let us not forget the great duct tape freakout that happened the very same year. stash away the duct tape. don t use it! stash it away, in that pre-measured plastic sheeting for future, and i emphasize, future use. duct tape and plastic sheeting to guard against a chemical attack. people started running out to stores and stocking up on all of the duct tape they could get their hands on. duct tape landed on the cover of time magazine. it got so bad that homeland security secretary tom ridge had to walk back his comments and calm everyone down. what they should do now, if they ve secured their supply kit they ought to pick up the kids from school because it s friday and they ought to go too soccer games and ought to go to work, because they ve done all we want them to do now. for the love of god, people, enough with the duct tape! it later turned out, of course, that none of this would have actually saved you from a