I wish we could have a real investigation instead. But I guess this will have to do.

This is a major mistake ... this mans actions could have quite well have been the catalyst for the Bengazi attacks ...

The ouster of David Petraeus was planned by upper echelon officials at the CIA with John Brennan s knowledge ... and tacit approval. Davis Petraeus discovered that he and Ambassador Stevens were being left out of important decisions concerning CIA's covert military actions in Libya being directed by National Security advisor John Brennan. These Secret raids enraged rebel forces and resulted with the attack on The Benghazi consulate and the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and others.

" Senior CIA officers targeted Petraeus because they didn't like the way he was running the agency - focusing more on paramilitary operations than intelligence analysis"

Petraeus, a highly regard military general, was being left out of the loop, while John Brennan, the former CIA analyst, was clandestinely running covert military actions in Libya that proved counterproductive to and lead to the attack on the American Consulate and death of Ambassador Stevens.

The question that is left is ...... Did John Brennan use David Petraeus as a scapegoat to cover up his ultimate nexus as a causation factor of the raid on the Benghazi Consulate and the death of the American ambassador and others by orchestrating the CIA (palace coup?)

There is substantial evidence that he did ... read the book ....Brennan is a dangerous man to head the company ...

Good. It's about time. Now it shouldn't be long before McCain and his hip attachment, Lindsay Graham, hit the microphones to yell and then decide they need to filibuster.

The republican'ts are so tired of hassling with hagel, they have no energy left to fight others...

Oh goody...the GOP senators get to throw another tantrum...

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Moonbeamracer sounds like a Communist. First order of business for Brennan should be to investigate him

After Kerry and Hagel, anyone is an upgrade.

Risch is a teabilly idiot. No one should pay any attention to him at all.

OH GOD! The Flock of GOP fools gathering again to look stupid, irresponsible, wounded and reckless, while weighting the world down for maybe being slow learners’, a quick prime time comic interview, maybe showing their true colors or just delight themselves with acts of terror because they can hold Americans down while risking citizen’s financial security, physical, mental security and safety for our nation, with no end game other than to vote them out!

Great comment Celeste.

I want to know where McCain and Graham were when Bush/Cheney (the twins who cannot leave the country for fear of the international courts) ran the show.

Breaking news:

Hugo Chavez dead...

The torturer, mass murderer and hater of America will be sorely missed by clueless leftists...the NY Times is blubbering.

Joe Kennedy will now get free oil from another thug dictator ....maybe Iran.

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What, we can't harp on about perceived misconduct by the White house. We listened to drummed up bogus accusations for 16 years from the left. Nothing has held up in court against an administration since slick Willy lied under oath.

were you at

Mccain and graham,you was so dead set against him going in just sunday

till all the pages of the attack was given in full not blacked out

i guess your mouth was just running! didnt catch up with your mind

now we all know your both full of hot air!neither one of you held up to your words

They do not deserve to live in the White House for these infantile actions. It is a 2.5% reduction in the GROWTH of spending. Nothing in the se-castration warrants this action. They are lying (as usual) over this whole thing. A pox upon their house.

The Senate should never reject a president's choice to head up an executive branch department, unless there is an overwhelming reason so obvious that it has bipartisan support. The Republicans have simply been playing politics in holding up confirmations for nothing more than ideological grandstanding. The stupid Republicans think they're making the administration look bad, while in reality they are cementing their own reputation as bat-crazy ideologues.

This person is worse than Hitler himself. You people really need to dig for background on him and you will find out how bad he really is. For those of you that say he is OK, you don't know Jack !

Can't be a "Good Guy" and be director of the CIA, Brennan obviously not a softy, he's for America first and foremost--good choice, lets hope that CIA Intelligence/operations are run on a more competent level than they have in the past. We don't need another Iraq and the bs of WMDs or a big time botched Benghazi operation. We need a bad guy in that position.

Now Brennan will be able to run not only the foreign drone program but the domestic one as well. Let the Drone Wars begin!

I am so tired of hear about Benghazi and the death of the Americans i could scream ! I don't care any longer about whar happened or did'nt Happened in Benghazi this is a dead issue just as dead as those killed in any service to this country ! I am also sick of the republicans and tea-party filibustering every single appointment this president makes to HIS cabinet ! This continued delay and filibustering of cabinet members has never happened ever before in history and republicans should remember that if they ever gain the white house again ( i doubt that will happen anytime soon) the democrats will most certainly do the same to there appointments ! It is no wonder that the people of this country refer to the Republican party as out of touch with America !

Rand Paul quote re his fillibuster, "I will speak until I can no longer speak". Not nice to say but maybe that would be a desireable p[ermanent result.

We can argue to death (death) the hypothetical, remote possibility that law enforcement would use whatever means (drone) to end a criminal or terrorist situation. Once we follow the laws we have, and the proceedings needed, as we hope to always consistently do, the law enforcement can take whatever means available to terminate the situation. There are no if, and, or, or buts about it.

Thus to engage in false debate, a debate that has but one side, is an act against civilization. Why? It not just a matter of wasting time, it is wasting time, the intention is only to waste time, because the one sided debate cannot preempt such an action! The hypothetical question answers itself, yes we can end a situation, and everyone accepts that the deed had to be done. It is no different than any other law enforcement activity.

This is always the nature of one sided arguments, one side states an absurd, unrealistic, unachievable position and the rest of world can argue the issue to eternity, just to waste time.

If you choose biblical restrictions, or humanitarian restrictions, or morally superior positions, but none of those meets the needs of enforcement apprehension. So the argument against killing varies against that of murder, no difference between fists, clubs, knifes, and firearms or any other means available (drone).

So what is your position? The constitution has rules reflected in criminal law enforcement, do you really expect that any details in law could be created that would anticipate every situation? If so then I am pleased to inform you that laws have never been written this form of open-end-ness.

So this drone debate is false, and can never even be considered useful, but is there another constitutional debate that occurs constantly that might, just might save a few thousands of real lives, that is not so very far is beyond reason?

Yes, it perfectly reasonable to have restrictions and reregulation on fire arms, and the same (anarchical) crowd that rises falsely against drone armaments for law enforcement allows, encourages and proves the means of killing, mayhem and murder in false defense of the same constitution. The blood is everywhere, innocents, infants, grandparents sleeping in bed?

So far we have the hypothetical case of a natural (technological) extension to law enforcement with no current examples, and the case of tens of thousands of dead or maimed people, without the slightest chance of being addressed, while it is on the congressional plate before us.

We will now illustrate the two issues together. We have another perennial debate in this country, again it is the "one sided" argument, where there is a position on one side and an endless resolved, indeterminate, discussion on the other that does not show any sign of being satisfied. This debate goes even beyond its own bounds because; if the wishes of the proponents would win the day; the argument would resume the very next day without one bit of progress.

Let's be gentile in a rough sort of way. It has been said that having wide spread availability of guns without restrictions, without registrations, without notice of conditions and without limits is just version of legal post birth abortion or death panels for the aged? This is classical one sided debate that rages and will never ever be resolved. The protagonist and the antagonist will simple exploit the situation, for political gain and never ever advance a solution that addressed the problem.

Exploiting a perennial unresolved situation just for political gain, this is corruption of politics far beyond the usefulness of politics.

Advancing the abortion argument, would require the possibility of personhood not just during embryogenesis, but include the unfertilized. Hardly approach of maturity or sanity.

So at the center is this spectacle is Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, John Cornyn, Jerry Moran, Saxby Chambliss, Pat Toomey, Marco Rubio, and fellow traveler Ron Wyden of Oregon.

Who have more interest in this issue than perpetuate their existence? They should fight their own demons and windmills while we have better things to do.

When the media gets out of juvenile detention, they might see the trap that has been lain on these three one side issues.

AFRL was involved in the psychological aspects of one of the most sadistic and bizzare illegal experimentation/torture programs in U.S. History: Chet Maciag, Colonel Lamar Parker, Lt. Col Bill Gregory: