**Posted by Phineas
I’ve said before the intelligence community will not play the sap for Obama. And now The Weekly Standard reports (via JWF [1]) that CIA Director Petraeus has thrown his boss under the bus [2]:
Breaking news on Benghazi: the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out this statement [3]: “No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. ”
As Bill Kristol writes, the decision to do nothing in Benghazi had to have been a presidential decision. (If not, that has its own scary implications.)
This is unraveling fast. You can bet more will come out before the election.
The spooks won’t play the sap [4].
(Crossposted at Public Secrets [5])