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It’s interesting to note the subtext in the Petraeus resignation controversy, that the FBI investigation was the result of his paramour “blowing” the affair:


The F.B.I. investigation that led to the sudden resignation of David H. Petraeus as C.I.A. director on Friday began with a complaint several months ago about “harassing” e-mails sent by Paula Broadwell, Mr. Petraeus’s biographer, to another woman who knows both of them, two government officials briefed on the case said Saturday.

When F.B.I. agents following up on the complaint began to examine Ms. Broadwell’s e-mails, they discovered exchanges between her and Mr. Petraeus that revealed that they were having an affair, said several officials who spoke of the investigation on the condition of anonymity. They also discovered that Ms. Broadwell possessed certain classified information, one official said, but apparently concluded that it was probably not Mr. Petraeus who had given it to her and that there had been no major breach of security.

Scott Shane and Eric Schmitt – Biographer’s E-Mails to Woman Led F.B.I. to Petraeus NYT 10 Nov 12

Given Paula Broadwell’s biography, “…she specialized in military intelligence, spending time at the U.S. Special Operations Command and the FBI Counterterrorism Task Forces before pursuing an academic career…” according to her publisher, one assumes she knew an email containing classified information would lead to an analysis of her on-line activity and the exposure of her relationship.  Her motivations are further confounded by the unnamed officials’ suggestion that “the two women seemed be competing for Mr. Petraeus’s loyalty, if not his affection.”  Needless to say her book “jumped from a ranking on Amazon of 76,792 on Friday to 111 by mid-Saturday.“

In another version it is alleged that Ms Broadwell “or someone close to her” had sought access to Petraeus’ Gmail account:


Associates of Petraeus had received “anonymous harassing emails” that were then traced to Broadwell, ABC’s Martha Raddatz reported, suggesting she may have found their names or addresses in his e-mail.

Max Fisher – Why David Petraeus’s Gmail account is a national security issue Washington Post 10 Nov 12

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar but in either scenario Ms Broadwell’s activity triggers events leading to the exposure of the relationship and the demise of General Petraeus’ otherwise illustrious career.  Another curiosity is the timing, it is clear that the relationship has ended, though it seems it was still ongoing at the time it attracted attention:


The computer investigation began late this spring, according to a person familiar with the investigation. Mr. Petraeus wasn’t interviewed by the FBI until recently.

While Mr. Petraeus was still a general, he had email exchanges with the woman, but there wasn’t a physical relationship, the person said. The affair began after Mr. Petraeus retired from the Army in August 2011 and ended months ago, the person said.

Devlin Barrett, Siobhan Gorman and Julian E Barnes – CIA Chief Resigns Over Affair WSJ 10 Nov 12

So why are we hearing about it only now?  Specifically just after the presidential election?  Well, that is a puzzle, and it has added fuel to the Right-wing controversy over the Benghazi tragedy as one would expect, given that General Petraeus was scheduled to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week:


According to the New York Times, the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was only informed about Petraeus’s affair at 5pm on election day, and Obama didn’t learn of it until Wednesday evening. The timing is just amazing. I am not sure quite what to think.

Booman – Strange Timing of Petraeus Knee-Capping Booman Tribune 10 Nov 11

Interestingly enough, House majority leader Eric Cantor got a tip-off even earlier:


Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, said Saturday an F.B.I. employee whom his staff described as a whistle-blower told him about Mr. Petraeus’s affair and a possible security breach in late October, which was after the investigation had begun.

“I was contacted by an F.B.I. employee concerned that sensitive, classified information may have been compromised and made certain Director Mueller was aware of these serious allegations and the potential risk to our national security,” Mr. Cantor said in a statement.

Scott Shane and Eric Schmitt – Biographer’s E-Mails to Woman Led F.B.I. to Petraeus NYT 10 Nov 12

Curiouser and curiouser; one wonders about the motivations of this “whistle-blower” under the circumstances and their political allegiances in going to the Republican leadership with the story during the election campaign.  It is also interesting to note that while a darling of the Right and an often mentioned presidential prospect General Petraeus was not above suspicion as a source of partisan administration leaks in security matters, coincidentally at just about the time the FBI started their investigation (emphasis added:)


The CIA director had lowered his media profile, stopping his practice of emailing reporters and ending once-common background interviews by the agency. That was especially the case after GOP allegations last spring that the Obama administration was leaking sensitive material to burnish its foreign policy reputation ahead of the presidential election, after a series of stories appeared about top secret operations aimed at al-Qaida in Yemen, and Iran’s nuclear program. A White House-ordered investigation of those leaks continues.

Kimberley Dozier and Pete Yost – Official: Emails from paramour led to FBI probe AP via Star-Telegraph 10 Nov 12

Given the controversy over leaks it is worth reviewing the ambivalent reports which have emerged regarding the origin of the FBI investigation in the first instance:


Politico, however, hears that is likely an exaggeration and that concern over access to Petraeus’ e-mail was not what initiated the investigation. McClatchy hears similar information, noting that sources say “the FBI did not investigate the author for attempting to compromise Petraeus’ computer.” According to this version it seems that, as Reuters hears, investigators stumbled across evidence of the affair while investigating news leaks. Although it’s unclear exactly why the FBI was monitoring Petraeus’ e-mail, a source tells the Washington Post, the FBI found e-mails describing the affair.

Daniel Politi – How Was Petraeus’ Affair Uncovered and Did he Really Have To Resign? Slate 10 Nov 11

Puzzling, to say the least.  In fact Petraeus had earlier become embroiled in a controversy with neo-conservatives and the pro-Israel lobby with a supposed leaked story in March of 2010, perhaps the nadir of US-Israeli relations:


On Jan. 16…a team of senior military officers from the U.S. Central Command, arrived at the Pentagon to brief Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The team had been dispatched by CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus to underline his growing worries at the lack of progress in resolving the issue. The 33-slide, 45-minute PowerPoint briefing stunned Mullen. The briefers reported that there was a growing perception among Arab leaders that the U.S. was incapable of standing up to Israel, that CENTCOM’s mostly Arab constituency was losing faith in American promises, that Israeli intransigence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was jeopardizing U.S. standing in the region

Mark Perry – The Petraeus briefing: Biden’s embarrassment is not the whole story Foreign Policy 13 Mar 10

This led to an alarmed back-and-forth among neo-conservatives and Petraeus which refuted the detail of the report while substantially confirming the substance and leaving the reader wondering where Mark Perry got the story from in the first instance.  Things got genuinely heated in January 2012 when Perry dropped another intelligence bombshell:


Buried deep in the archives of America’s intelligence services are a series of memos, written during the last years of President George W. Bush’s administration, that describe how Israeli Mossad officers recruited operatives belonging to the terrorist group Jundallah by passing themselves off as American agents. According to two U.S. intelligence officials, the Israelis, flush with American dollars and toting U.S. passports, posed as CIA officers in recruiting Jundallah operatives — what is commonly referred to as a “false flag” operation.

Mark Perry – False Flag Foreign Policy 13 Jan 12

Coming as it did at a sensitive time this lit up the neo-conservative pro-Israeli lobby like a skyrocket:


Foreign Policy has produced a slander so outrageous that Israel broke with its strict policy of never confirming or denying covert operations to issue a flat denial – and surprisingly, given Israel’s notoriously poor public relations, it’s a convincing one. On Friday, the magazine published an article by Mark Perry, a military and intelligence analyst who once served as an advisor to Yasser Arafat, that accused Mossad agents of posing as CIA agents to recruit Pakistani terrorists to commit sabotage and assassinations inside Iran. The alleged operation infuriated two successive presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Perry wrote, because it endangered American lives, undermined America’s relationship with Pakistan and painted America as engaged in terrorist activity. Additionally, Perry said, it convinced many senior American officials that Israel was a liability rather than a strategic asset.

Evelyn Gordon – More About “Foreign Policy’s” Israel Slurs Commentary 16 Jan 12

Serious stuff.  And what was the consensus on the sourcing? (emphasis added:)


The article’s sourcing is problematic and should also raise red flags. Perry relies on two current intelligence officers, only one of whom has seen the memo alleging Israeli malfeasance. One officer-presumably the same who saw the memo and perhaps also wrote it-describes Bush’s reaction, and so presumably was a briefer for the White House. Should Gen. David Petraeus, director of Central Intelligence, wish to identify that leaker, he could do so easily.  […]

When the intelligence community allows an individual’s political peccadilloes to corrupt its process, it permanently erodes its reputation and ability to conduct its mission. Should Petraeus decline to investigate, there are only three possibilities: He lacks control, he sanctioned the leaks himself, or conversely, his superiors in the White House are willing to corrupt intelligence to sanction anonymous Israel-bashing.

Michael Rubin – Did Israel Run a False Flag Operation? Commentary 16 Jan 12

It is worth noting that one of the above “false flag” pieces also mentions a number of Israeli intelligence scalps which have been taken over the years in similar circumstances:


Israel termed the report “absolute nonsense,” explaining that had it been true, then-Mossad chief Meir Dagan would have been declared persona non grata in Washington rather than being a welcome visitor. Nor is that idle speculation: Those same two presidents forced the ouster of three other senior Israeli defense officials over other issues; why would they have given Dagan a pass?

Just last year, Uzi Arad was forced to resign as chairman of Israel’s National Security Council due to Washington’s anger over leaked information from U.S.-Israeli talks on nuclear issues. And in 2005, two senior Defense Ministry officials – director general Amos Yaron and chief of security Yehiel Horev – were forced out due to Washington’s anger over Israel’s agreement to upgrade Harpy drones for China, following a year in which the Pentagon boycotted Yaron entirely.

Evelyn Gordon – More About “Foreign Policy’s” Israel Slurs Commentary 16 Jan 12

In this geopolitical context it is tempting to imagine a number of motivations for exploring General Petraeus’ personal email activity other than the somewhat garbled narrative which has emerged so far regarding a tangential investigation of an erratic lover.  How was it that the internal counter-intelligence watchdogs at the Agency didn’t catch this relationship earlier?  And how does the House majority leader get tipped-off about it by an external agency before the president is told?  And what of Ms Broadwell?  We will be watching her career with great interest.

Cross-posted at Daily Kos and Booman Tribune


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  1. janicket

    If the emerging details of this story make the Democrats look bad, it will get blown up into a multi-news-cycle scandal gleefully exploited by the GOP and its media catspaws.

    If the emerging details of this story make the Republicans look bad, it will get shunted into salacious sideshow, shuffled off the news cycle quickly, and used by the GOP as an example of Obama’s incompetence in office.

  2. janicket

    Eric Cantor’s involvement is going to make it difficult — to say the least — for the Republicans to make political hay of this mess.  How can they scream about not being told when their own Majority Leader knew and said nothing?  

    Also, there’s this:  How can they screech that it’s all a plot to stop Petraeus from spilling the beans on the administration’s failures when it’s beginning to look possible that it’s GOP-darling Petraeus’s CIA that may have screwed the Benghazi pooch?  Now that the Hero General has exited in disgrace, there are more cracks appearing in the magnificent facade:

    TarheelDem at Booman Tribune:

    http://www.boomantribune.com/s…

    Michael Hastings at BuzzFeed:

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhasti…

    Granted, it’s always easier to kick a man when he’s down, but given the other fairy tales we’ve been sold over the last decade (hello, Jessica Lynch), it’s worth considering, eh?  

  3. louisprandtl

    The Wedge is still alive. The FBI agents chomping at the bit of questioning CIA honcho Gen Petreaus might have been too much to resist. The leak to Eric Cantor might have been a sideshow to show Obama admin in poor light right before the election especially when the right wing propaganda machine was ramping up the Benghazi incident.

  4. Shaun Appleby

    Curiouser and curiouser:


    Lawmakers are likely to question whether Broadwell was improperly given access to sensitive information about the attack. In a late October speech at the University of Denver, she said that the CIA annex where two of the Americans were killed “had actually taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoners” and that the attack was thought to be “an effort to get them back.” U.S. officials have not made reference to that possible motive in numerous accounts of the Benghazi attack.

    Karen DeYoung and Sari Horwitz – Lawmakers want probe of Petraeus investigation Washington Post 12 Nov 11

    Wasn’t the Benghazi incident just before or around the time we understand the FBI had already interviewed or was interviewing Broadwell and Petraeus?  Not saying Broadwell doesn’t have other potential sources but she seems pretty confident and outspoken on the subject for someone already under investigation by the FBI on national security matters.

  5. HappyinVT

    cannot keep their freakin’ pants zipped.

    Is there anything to preclude Patraeus from still testifying later this week?

  7. Shaun Appleby

    Which remains a curious feature of this case:


    According to the Times, Cantor said he took the information, and “made certain that director Mueller”-that is Robert Mueller III, the director of the F.B.I.-“was aware of these serious allegations, and the potential risk to our national security.” This is a strange way to explain his contact with the F.B.I. on this matter, because it is almost inconceivable that director Mueller was not already aware that the bureau he runs had examined the e-mail account of the director of the C.I.A., and, further, confronted him in person. Such a meeting between the bureau and head of the C.I.A. would have been extraordinary, and it is fairly unthinkable that Mueller wouldn’t have been consulted. So what information was Cantor conveying when he got in touch with Mueller?

    One obvious point of the call would have been to inform the F.B.I. director that Republicans on the Hill knew about Petraeus’s vulnerability, and also about the investigation. If the F.B.I. had ever entertained hopes of keeping it secret, the odds of doing so were fast diminishing. The same message would have become clear to Petraeus, who was due to testify in front of a House panel next week.

    Jane Meyer – A Petraeus Puzzle: Were Polics Involved? New Yorker 11 Nov 12

    Indeed.  A short piece full of good questions.

  8. HappyinVT

    WASHINGTON-A federal agent who launched the investigation that ultimately led to the resignation of Central Intelligence Agency chief David Petraeus was barred from taking part in the case over the summer due to superiors’ concerns that he had become personally involved in the case, according to officials familiar with the probe.

    New details about how the Federal Bureau of Investigation handled the case suggest that even as the bureau delved into Mr. Petraeus’s personal life, the agency struggled with questionable conduct by one of its own-including allegedly sending shirtless photos of himself to a woman involved in the case.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/…

    Am I the only one not getting extra-marital sexytime and/or nekkid/semi-nekkid pictures?!

  9. Strummerson

    is who exactly are all of these ridiculous nincompoops who ran to buy the bio once they realized he was boffing the biographer.

    Maybe it’s how this has publicized her background as a machine gun model.

    Eeeeeee-gads is all Strum can muster when contemplating this question.  

  11. Shaun Appleby

    Turns out to have known Representative Reichert from time spent in Seattle, probably during the 1999 WTO protests, and Ms Kelley from social events when he moved to the Tampa field office:



    Two former law enforcement colleagues said Mr. Humphries was a solid agent with experience in counterterrorism, conservative political views and a reputation for aggressiveness. […]

    In regard to his client speaking with Mr. Cantor, Mr. Berger declined to address the issue, saying only that his client “had followed F.B.I. protocols.”

    “No one tries to become a whistle-blower,” he said. “Consistent with F.B.I. policy, he referred it to the proper component.”

    A law enforcement official said that disclosing a confidential investigation even to members of Congress could violate F.B.I. rules. But the official said Mr. Humphries’s conduct was under review and that he had not been suspended or punished in any way.

    Michael S Schmidt, Scott Shane and Alain Delaqueriere – Veteran F.B.I. Agent Helped Start Petraeus E-Mail Inquiry NYT 14 Nov 12

    I’m having a little difficulty accepting that Ms Kelley had no inkling what her threatening emails were in reference to and how potentially damaging the investigation could be under the circumstances.  As for Agent Humphries his political aspirations may prove to have had a bearing on his enthusiasm in seeing the case pursued, never mind his over-enthusiasm in leaking it to a conservative Republican in Congress.

  12. Shaun Appleby

    This is getting a little creepy.  CENTCOM is located at MacDill AFB near Tampa, Florida.  This is the facility Broadwell’s emails to Kelley accused her of “parading” around.  It turns out she had free access to the base:


    The officials said Ms. Kelley was no longer permitted to enter MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa “with a wave,” as she has for years as a regular volunteer and visitor to ranking officers there. Now she has to get approval and sign in at the visitor’s gate, the official said.

    Michael S Schmidt, Scott Shane and Alain Delaqueriere – Veteran F.B.I. Agent Helped Start Petraeus E-Mail Inquiry NYT 14 Nov 12

    Not only that Ms Kelley was “honorary ambassador” to CENTCOM:


    Kelley was also given the title of “honorary ambassador” by the U.S. Central Command, according to a defense official. The title is, “meaningless” and holds no power and is given for recognition of specific work, according the official.

    The title is nothing more than a certificate given by CENTCOM’s Coalition Coordination Center, a group of military representatives from different countries which are working with the United States on terrorism issues. That group, led by a low-level U.S. military officer, recommended Kelley for the title.

    Jill Dougherty – Jill Kelley, honorary consul CNN 14 Nov 12

    So we have Generals’ Petraeus and Allen, Lt Colonel Broadwell and now Ms Kelley all coming and going at the same locality and working, or dabbling, in counterterrorism.  What about our intrepid ‘shirtless’ FBI whistle-blower?:


    Two former law enforcement colleagues said Mr. Humphries was a solid agent with experience in counterterrorism. […]

    In May 2010, after he had moved to the Tampa field office, Mr. Humphries fatally shot a knife-wielding man near a gate of MacDill Air Force base.

    Michael S Schmidt, Scott Shane and Alain Delaqueriere – Veteran F.B.I. Agent Helped Start Petraeus E-Mail Inquiry NYT 14 Nov 12

    In fact, Agent Humphries, veteran counterterrorism investigator is claimed to have met Ms Kelley at an FBI community event:


    Kelley and Humphries met when she attended the bureau’s Citizens’ Academy, an FBI program aimed at showing members of the public at least some of what the FBI does and how it works, Berger said. The academy lasted from Sept. 13 to Nov. 30, 2011, the AP learned.

    Catherine Herridge, Jennifer Griffin and AP – FBI agent under review for conduct in Petraeus scandal is counterterrorism veteran Fox 15 Nov 12

    Turns out, however, that the agent involved in the shooting in 2010, later identified as Humphries, was also connected to MacDill:


    By 2010, Humphries had been assigned to the FBI’s Tampa office and was its liaison to MacDill, home to the military’s Central Command.

    Catherine Herridge, Jennifer Griffin and AP – FBI agent under review for conduct in Petraeus scandal is counterterrorism veteran Fox 15 Nov 12

    The shooting in 2010 occurred when the perpetrator was attempting to leave the base by the Dale Mabry gate.  And though most of the contemporary accounts of the shooting describe the agent as being “off-duty” there is this:


    FBI spokesman Dave Couvertier said Thursday the agent, whose name won’t be released, was on base as part of his regular duties.

    Tamara Lush – Army veteran fatally shot at MacDill AFB in Tampa Victoria Advocate 19 May 10

    Though we are being told that Ms Kelley and Agent Humphries met elsewhere it seems MacDill was the locus of a lot of goings on for most of the participants in this little drama.  Colour me sceptical.

  13. fogiv

    …enter MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa “with a wave”

    wtf?  I was once in a GOV with Maj Gen Yeager at Edwards AFB.  We stopped at the fucking gate, and this was pre-9/11.  

  15. janicket

    John McCain demonstrates his passion to pursue the truth of Benghazi, no matter where it leads him:

    http://politicalticker.blogs.c…


    Most of the Republican members of a Senate committee investigating the terrorist attack at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, skipped an classified briefing by administration officials on the incident Wednesday, CNN has learned.

    The missing lawmakers included Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who at the time of the top-secret briefing held a press conference in the Capitol to call for the creation of a Watergate-type special Congressional committee to investigate how and why the attack took place.

    In a rare display of journalism, CNN actually dared to press the American Hero on the reasons for his absence:

    When CNN approached McCain in a Capitol hallway Thursday morning, the senator refused to comment about why he missed the briefing, which was conducted by top diplomatic, military and counter-terrorism officials. Instead, McCain got testy when pressed to say why he wasn’t there.

    “I have no comment about my schedule and I’m not going to comment on how I spend my time to the media,” McCain said.

    Asked why he wouldn’t comment, McCain grew agitated: “Because I have the right as a senator to have no comment and who the hell are you to tell me I can or not?”

    When CNN noted that McCain had missed a key meeting on a subject the senator has been intensely upset about, McCain said, “I’m upset that you keep badgering me.”

    Sounds like someone needs his blankie and a good nap.

  16. janicket

    A quick run through the major media news homepages indicates that the Benghazi SCANDAL!!!!! is not getting the WATERGATE OMG!!!! play the GOP had been hoping for.  CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC — they all have the Israeli rush to war as their headline story.  The Benghazi thing is subordinating to the deliciously salacious details of the women involved in the Petraeus downfall, with more and more attention falling upon the darkly coifed head of That Kelley Woman.

    Only Fox tries to keep up the Obama Offensive, and even it can’t flog enough juice from Benghazi to lead with it; no, its current Headline of That One’s Doom is “Cost of ObamaCare: Jobs Lost” — a pretty good sign it’s read the graffiti on McCain’s wall.

    Oh, and I hadn’t actually read the Lying Evil Terrorist-Loving talking points that the GOPsters are so incensed over till today, courtesy of ABC:

    The currently available information suggests that the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the United States Embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault against United States diplomatic posts in Benghazi and subsequently its annex. There are indications that extremists participated in the violent demonstrations. This assessment may change as additional information is collected and analyzed and as currently available information continues to be evaluated. The investigation is ongoing, and the United States government is working with Libyan authorities to bring justice to those responsible for the death of United States citizens.

    That’s it?  That’s what the troglodytes are hanging their pointy little hats on?

    There’s really only one possible reaction:

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  17. Hollede

    and she has a theory about what happened in Benghazi. Well actually, we both pontificated about what might have happened. Warning, we both have creative and wild imaginations.

    Tin hats all around folks…

    Ok. We think that Ambassador Stevens got a tip that there was an opportunity to take out some of the leaders of the al Quaeda in Lybia. He then took a couple of CIA agents with him to the consulate and soon discovered it was a trap.

    The despicable behavior and politicization by the republican leadership regarding this tragedy AND the release of CIA operations from the House and Senate may lead to public beheadings (I hope:~P). Valerie Plame anyone? It would seem that they have stepped in a whole pile of top secret, classified shit which they can’t seem to wipe off their shoes.

    There is a skit that SNL that aired back in 1991 (season 16 episode 12)  where the press corp was asking the dumbest questions about Desert Storm. For example: ‘what are our troop movement and where are they going now?). I am paraphrasing and wish like hell I could find the clip as it is hilarious. I think it is appropriate for our current situation.

    I do think the administration came out too early with the information regarding the attack. To comment and give the press vultures ongoing information about operations and the tragedy may have not been the best move.

  18. fogiv

    Ancient hunters and gatherers etched vivid petroglyphs on cliffs in the Eastern Sierra that withstood winds, flash floods and earthquakes for more than 3,500 years. Thieves needed only a few hours to cut them down and haul them away.

    Federal authorities say at least four petroglyphs have been taken from the site. A fifth was defaced with deep saw cuts on three sides. A sixth had been removed and broken during the theft, then propped against a boulder near a visitor parking lot.

    Dozens of other petroglyphs were scarred by hammer strikes and saw cuts.

    “The individuals who did this were not surgeons, they were smashing and grabbing,” U.S. Bureau of Land Management archaeologist Greg Haverstock said last week as he examined the damage. “This was the worst act of vandalism ever seen” on the 750,000 acres of public land managed by the BLM field office in Bishop.

    http://www.latimes.com/news/lo…

  19. janicket

    From the comments thread under today’s CNN story about how the infamous talking points on Benghazi were changed to take out reference to al Qaeda:

    El Flaco

    All of the global media corporations in the world have been in a secret socialist conspiracy to hide the Shining Light of Conservatism for five generations. They do this because they are evil and want good people to suffer. (It used to be a Communist conspiracy, but then the Soviet Union collapsed and overnight it became transformed into a socialist conspiracy. No Conservative apparently noticed the change.)

    All of the polls, all of the scientists, all of the PhDs, and all universities have joined in that world-wide socialist conspiracy since 1932. Their goal is persuade voters that Liberalism is good when they know it is evil.

    Scientists are all liars. They fake scientific results and poll findings. They have been doing this since FDR was President. They will do anything evil for tenure and government grants. They fake their experiments so the results agree with Liberalism. Sometimes ‘the government’ orders them to produce certain results, like the Global Warming Hoax.

    All government statistics have been faked and changed to make “Liberals” in government look good, and they cannot be believed. This is because government is evil and all government employees are evil when a Democrat is in the White House. All government employees lie to make Obama look good.

    (Escape Clause: However, if those same government agencies produce statistics that make Conservatives look good, then they can be believed and trusted.)

    If it’s from PBS/NBC/ABC/MSNBC/ABC/CNN it’s a lie. They do not print news. They simply try to sway elections by printing false news. They have been doing this since Hitler invaded Poland because they hate America.

    God is a Conservative Free-Market Republican. So is Jesus. So is the Holy Ghost. So were the apostles. So were the early followers of Jesus. So was the first Pope. So was Martin Luther.

    Mormonism is not Christianity unless the Republican nominee is a Mormon, in which case Mormonism is just another Protestant denomination, like Presbyterians or Baptists.

    Does that sound sane to anyone?

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