David Petraeus: U.S. Not Where Should Be Against ISIS
Former CIA Director and retired four-star U.S. Army general David Petraeus said the country is not where they “should be in the fight against the Islamic State [ISIS/ISIL]”
Former CIA Director and retired four-star U.S. Army general David Petraeus said the country is not where they “should be in the fight against the Islamic State [ISIS/ISIL]”
If we weren’t so numb to lawlessness and politicized bureaucracy from seven years of Obama scandals, this would be a national outrage. The President just tried to influence the outcome of a criminal investigation, on behalf of a powerful Democrat politician. Of course, he loves to insert himself into politically useful criminal matters, while having nothing to say about politically damaging ones, such as sanctuary-city murders by illegal aliens.
The Obama administration has discovered a chain of emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton failed to turn over when she provided what she said was the full record of work-related correspondence as secretary of state, officials said Friday, adding to the growing questions related to the Democratic presidential front-runner’s unusual usage of a private email account and server while in government.
One of the federal prosecutors who helped bring down former general David Petraeus is now leading the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email use.
Hillary Clinton is already in trouble over the email story and that trouble could get a lot worse.
Late last month, several Middle East policy experts–including prominent former Obama administration officials–warned that negotiations with Iran were heading in the wrong direction. “The agreement will not prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapons capability,” they said, and warned that the terms would “fall short of meeting the administration’s own standard of a ‘good’ agreement.” They suggested that any Iran deal would have to cover five crucial elements–each of which, they suggested, were lacking in the emerging terms of the agreement.
Several former advisers to President Barack Obama have rejected the likely terms of a nuclear deal with Iran, adding their names to an open letter that declares: “The agreement will not prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapons capability.”
In an interview that aired in its entirety on “CBS This Morning” on Thursday, former CIA Director and Ret. U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, who once commanded American forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan, evaluated the U.S. effort against ISIS in the Middle
Several ex-national security leaders have joined forces to argue that pushing through President Barack Obama’s trade agenda is good for national security—even though it would hurt American manufacturing, could increase the already-record-high trade deficit and likely add to the national debt.
Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an extramarital affair with his biographer, was sentenced Thursday to two years’ probation and fined $100,000 for giving her classified material while she was working on the book.
Former CIA Director and retired Gen. David Petraeus reached a deal with the Department of Justice in which he will plead guilty to a misdemeanor count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material.
While U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder refused to discuss the case too deeply, he did insist that the FBI and Justice Department probe of General David Petraeus was conducted appropriately.